"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Jan 2nd, 2012
What you see before you is my “new” stove, a 1950s-era Magic Chef gas range and oven which pretty much outclasses everything else currently residing in my kitchen. Never mind you that the new stove is currently residing on the back porch. It’s in good company. It’s got a disconnected Swedish woodstove and a mysteriously [...]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing on Dec 18th, 2011
I made a new dress today – it didn’t pan out quite as well as one might have hoped, and it is, of course, my fault, as I did a piss-poor job of matching fabric to pattern design. I’d bought this fabric with an eye to using it with McCall’s M5974, which is a pattern [...]
Posted in Photo entries, Sewing on Dec 3rd, 2011
Never let it be said that I am a wasteful woman. From 1.5 yards of 60″ wide woolen jersey, I wrought: 1. One 3/4 sleeved pullover top. 2. One lace-trimmed tank-top/camisole. 3. A sports-bra. All for under $40.
Posted in Kansas City, NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries on Nov 15th, 2011
Kansas City(s) (both of them) are river cities, though much less so than many other river cities. KC hasn’t embraced the riverfront; most of the levies are closed to public access, and the riverfront parks that do exist have traditionally been woefully underutilized. Nonetheless, KC is a river city, and the river plays significant roles [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 14th, 2011
IMG_0148, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. This fire escape is on the back of the old Advance/Rumely building in the West Bottoms. The link above is to a photograph of this same alley in 1951, after the big flood. And this is the same alley as of last year’s haunted house season. I was [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries on Nov 13th, 2011
IMG_0231, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. This is possibly the most amazing photo I will ever have taken. I lucked into an intimate view of a young red-tailed hawk’s luncheon date with a pigeon.
Posted in Adventures, biking, NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 12th, 2011
I took Ruby running in a shipping container wareyard today. She enjoyed splashing through the puddles and searching for rats, and I enjoyed the disorienting scenery. It felt like I was cavorting in a giant’s LEGO village. This looks like a tight fit, but I could easily ride my bicycle through this passageway. It is [...]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Lists, meta, Notions and Rants, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 3rd, 2011
Facebook. Freakin’ Facebook. It’s a love/hate website, that’s for sure. It’s fun to keep up with your friends, see your old schoolmates’ babies, check out your co-workers Spotify picks, hand out party invites, RSVP to same…it’s a daily ritual that many of us enjoy. Mostly. But Facebook has a habit of inventing new ways to [...]
Posted in Photo entries on Aug 25th, 2011
Well, I guess you’d guess by my rarely-changed header image that I like bees. It’s true, I do. Especially the really furry, busy, buzzy, chubby bumble-bees. The fuzzier and bumblier, the better. One of the first really good picture I ever took with my digital camera (please humor me in that it’s “good”) was a [...]
Posted in Photo entries on Aug 24th, 2011
Too bad they never handled Chrysler at some interval, or they’d have had the Big 3 covered. This former car dealership building stands on Truman Road. A few years ago, it housed a really cool sign shop: I guess the crap economy put the kibosh to a neon-only specialty sign shop. Too darn stinkin’ bad, [...]
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