Horribly named clothing store spotted in Fresno. Sign companies should be thoughtful and tell customers when they’ve spelled things incorrectly (like on menus) or just have dumb ideas.

 
Sparky bought a house one suburb away. It’s terribly exciting.

He gets the keys next month, but the house needs some work before I can move in. It has an outside toilet and no curtains (or even curtain rods), and I’m still sun-sensitive.

But on the bright side, it is a lovely old house in a nice area, and we will get to live in the same place after 3 1/2 years of commuting back and forth.

And… it has a small third bedroom that is earmarked to be my craft room.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have wanted a craft room for so long — a place where I can store all my fun stuff, where I don’t have to clean up my messes, where I can just go and create.

The new house will have fast wireless internet, too, so I’ll be able to use streaming radio like last.fm while I’m creating. I have my heart set on this new wall-mounted laptop station from Ikea. I love that you can mount it at standing height, and it fits everything I need — I don’t have a ton of other accessories other than my laptop. I asked Sparky what I would do if I bought a printer, though, and he said just send things to his printer in the other room, via wireless signal. Genius.

I promised more pictures of things I have made. Below is my first embroidery project, which I made for my sister and her husband as their wedding gift.

It’s in Spanish (my brother-in-law is from Mexico) and roughly translates to “Marriage and death (and pears) come from heaven.” Our grandparents were pear farmers, so pears are a very popular theme in our family’s homes.

I used bits and pieces from a few different embroidery patterns and put it all together on the computer. The sheep are my favourite part.