Entries from December 2008

December 24, 2008

not a pink aluminum tree

While friends visited a few weeks ago, we went to a tree farm to cut down our own tree this year.  We haven’t done this before, but there are so many tree farms around here, we figured it would be fun and fairly easy.  The place we went was a 5 minute drive from our [...]

December 22, 2008

cobblestone coast

A few weeks ago, before Oregon got more snow than we’ve had in 40 years, we went to the coast with our friend.  We visited one of our favorite spots – Yaquina Head Lighthouse where there is a cobblestone beach.  There are tidepools, and sea lions, and cobbles everywhere.  Its unlike any other coastline I’ve [...]

December 18, 2008

snowed in

It’s a winter wonderland here in the Willamette Valley.  We don’t get much snow here – maybe one or two snow days a year, so its a big deal when we get any.  We’ve had snow on the ground for 3 days now and it might last for a few more days.  We have an [...]

December 11, 2008

handmade love

We’ve been wonderfully busy around here.  Some of my very good friends visited from opposite ends of the country.  They were here for the Meet Your Maker show and we all had so much fun together.  I’ll post more about that when I can dig through all the pictures.
I have another show this weekend – [...]

December 3, 2008

handmade holidays

Meet Your Maker is hosting a show on Friday, Dec. 5th at Broadway in Eugene from 5-8.  Come out and buy all your holiday gifts there.  Enter to win our great raffle of vendor donations.  I really wish I could enter it, such a great haul.  I’m hoping to pick up this:
and maybe this:
If you [...]