Back in Boston

My former housemates Melanie and Gisle came back from D.C. to visit recently...they have two adorable little boys, and I took some photos of them:

  
 

Fresh eggs

There's nothing like having a fresh scrambled egg for breakfast!  Although I would love to keep chickens, that isn't really a possibility right now, so I recently started an egg co-op with the help of my neighbor Daniela.  About 15 of us from the neighborhood will be taking turns going to a local farm about 45 minutes from Boston to pick up everyone's eggs.  Since our pick-ups are every other week, each person will only have to go to the farm twice a year.  We save gas, money (the eggs are $2, about half of what I was paying before), and get to have fresh eggs from free-running hens!  Here are some photos I took from Chip-In Farm:

 

Making a tote bag

Inspired by all the sewing my housemate Alicia and neighbor Daniela have been doing lately, I recently decided to try my hand at making a tote bag.  I ordered some fun fabrics from ReproDepot, borrowed Daniela's sewing machine, and jumped in.  I didn't have a pattern and don't really know how to sew, so I ran into a few snags...I had somehow forgotten my housemate Alicia's description of how it should all work, and sewed up both the bag and the lining completely.  For a minute I was very puzzled about how to flip the bag over the lining, and realized it was impossible without ripping out a bunch of stitches.  I also decided half-way through the process that it would be nice to make the bag reversible, which meant that I should have sewn on the bird cut-out and pockets before sewing the bag and lining together, so that the stitching would not be visible on the other side.  Since I didn't, I ended up doing alot more hand sewing than was probably necessary.  I never realized how much thinking ahead and planning you have to do in sewing! Happily, everything turned out ok in the end.  

Here are some photos:

Inaugural Post

I can't believe I'm doing this, but here is my first blog post!  As someone who does not do Facebook, My Space, IM, or Skype, and only recently figured out how to text message, this is quite the intrepid step into the 21st century.  

Since I just got a digital camera recently, I hope to post lots of photos in the future.  So stay tuned!