Tag: domesticity

  • Funk Busters — What to do When Nothing’s Right

    I had planned to sit down and write any number of aiming-to-be-brilliant-and-engaging things, but today’s got me in a funk. I don’t feel like writing. I don’t feel like working. I don’t feel like anything. So here’s a list of things I have done or should do to snap out of it. They’re mostly the…

  • Lunchtime Reads 7.17

    Erin Loechner has been absolutely killing it lately with incredibly thoughtful posts that ask meaningful questions about style, design, and life. This is one of my recent favorites. I’m learning a ton about myself and my needs and wants during this sabbatical. I’m also learning a ton about design and development, and taking every opportunity…

  • Simple supper

    It’s no secret that I’m a fairly picky eater. If undeterred, I can subsist on the eating habits of a five year old (read: macaroni and cheese and chicken fingers). I don’t like vegetables. There are a few that I am willing to eat, and, to trick myself into eating them, will sneak into various…

  • 30 Days – Day 17

    This may very well be my all-time DIY best. I’m not going to pretend that it wasn’t a giant pain, but I love how it turned out. It all started with this. I pinned one photo, in particular, with far-off, fictional really, visions of doing this myself someday. But then, 30 Days of Creativity came…

  • 30 Days – Day 13

    I was in quite the funk all day. It felt a lot like last summer, right after I moved here, and I spent my days refreshing Craig’s List in search of ever-elusive employment. Then I left for the ESL class that I teach and interacted with a bunch of wonderful people. After class, I came…

  • 30 Days – Day 1

    For the first day of 30 Days of Creativity, I made a curtain. We’ve now been living in this apartment for almost six months, and until today we had a towel hanging in the bathroom window. The window is an uncommon shape, and for some reason there is already a curtain rod built into it.…