In the Gallery Place metro on my way to teach auGDES200 (my pet name for it), I saw the On To Richmond logo I designed while at J H I on about a million pylons! How neat.

The pylons (designed by the nice folks at J H I) are meant to remind us of signif­i­cant historic anniver­saries during this very week, and encourage us to scoot on down to Ol’ Virginny to take in the historic sites & reflect on where we were only 149 years ago. There’s some­thing very inter­esting to me about seeing the people in the metro rushing along, with history — quite liter­ally — all around us. Today and every day, history to look back on, and history we’re living.

I’ve been sorely needing to sit down and stamp up a bunch of cards, and today I finally took care of it — during a bout of “produc­tive procras­ti­nating,” which is my favorite kind. Do you do this too?

In related news, I’ve been contin­uing to have fun with Spoonflower. I recently uploaded a repeat pattern of my tiny droplets motif (seen here on the cards, and above in the header) — you can take a peek at it here. I’m awaiting a sample, and I’ll be sure to post again when I make my first project with it!

I’ve had my hands in some inter­esting things lately — some little things, some bigger things. I hope to share more soon, but in the mean­time, here’s one of the little things: a linen produce bag I’ve been crocheting this past week. I’m sort of in love with it.

I got the pattern, basi­cally, from The Purl Bee (I love them) and then I went off course, as I nearly always do when making things by hand. I can’t leave well enough alone. So here, I made the “holes” in the bag smaller, making the bag itself smaller, and I length­ened the handles so they can easily go over the shoulder. But then I went even further off course, and added smaller handles in the crooks of the larger handles.

Then, to be frank, I bought a bunch of fruit just so I could fill the bag and ogle it.

I’ve been making and eating a heckuva lot of pizza lately. And docu­menting it at NO ANCHOVIES, my blog about vegan pizza.

I’m really into these colors, catching the light against the dark tabletop. They’re a bunch of antique salt cellars I found in Kilmarnock, Virginia, as well as some kind of metaphor for this time of year. I want the whole lot.

I just placed my first order to Spoonflower and I think it may have been a life-changing moment.

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I put together a “gift bucket” of his favorite bever­ages — from Rogue’s Mocha Porter to classic cola in a glass bottle, to a fancy carafe of choco­late almond milk (one of our lazy desserts). This was presented under a banner I stitched together for him; the side you can’t see is a little sweeter: “I ♥ you”.

I snapped this shot before he saw what the back says.