lately

we've been enjoying little tastes of summer in between all this rain. I'm so thankful for these moments.

spring

We've been "enjoying" plenty of spring showers around here lately and it can seem awefully dreary at times. This is just a little reminder that when it's sunny
OH when it's sunny
spring can be so so lovely.

what i'm reading, what's on the needles

I took this photo last week as part of the yarn along posts I've been (sporadically) taking part in but one thing lead to another and then the weekend happened and now here I am. I thought I'd still share though since the knitting part of this blog has been lacking as of late.

I've been ogling Jamie Oliver's cookbook Jamie at Home the past week or so. Wow is it ever inspiring. Not only is it full of amazing recipes it has tons of info about gardening and using local foods and such, the photography is amazing and the graphing design is just beautiful. All of Jamie's books that I own or have seen are inspiring but this is my favourite by far.

I decided to cast on for a new hat, a nice quick project to get the knitting juices flowing again. Or so I thought. I've since frogged it and so I have to re-evaluate my gauge before I start again.

To be perfectly honest my heart wasn't really in it. I've been spending all my creative energy trying to absorb as much info about photography and trying to better learn my camera over the past few weeks. Last weekend I caught most of Zack Arias' course on creativeLIVE and all I can really say is WOW. So motivating and crammed FULL of so much info. My head is swimming with all kinds of daydreams. But then that's not really news, I'm always dreaming about something. There is a course on food photography coming up this weekend that looks ah.MAZ.ing. I'm definitely going to watch as much of it as I can. if you haven't heard of creativeLIVE you really should check it out.

happy mother's day

My Grandma and my Mom reading to my kids.