the peaceful peacock

::  A post orig­i­nally pub­lished in August of 2008.  Good­ness, I have made progress with the cam­era, haven’t I?  ::

I was a lit­tle tired when I did this so pre­pare your­selves; at some point it might really hurt your eyes.  There are lots of good lit­tle tips in here though so maybe put on some […]

Like the new wid­get?  Please feel free to copy and paste the code in the text box (over there on the side­bar) in order to link to my blog.  I’m work­ing on a cou­ple more in dif­fer­ent sizes as well–stay tuned for updates.
So while I’m doing some behind the scenes geek­ery, you can catch my […]

I sup­pose a few may be won­der­ing how my chal­lenge of the utmost kind is hold­ing up.
It’s chal­leng­ing.  And good.  And I’m hav­ing fun with it so far.
One of the ele­ments that I like about par­tic­i­pat­ing in some­thing like this is that it becomes sur­pris­ingly per­sonal.  I’m look­ing inside and out to dis­cover exactly what it is […]

Before Annabelle was born, I laid out a plan of what I thought I could actu­ally achieve with an infant and a tod­dler under­foot.
I knew that phys­i­cally cre­at­ing would be a chal­lenge (to say the least…) so while she was very, very tiny and liked to sleep all the time, I learned to make my […]

Happy New Year!
This will be the year when old is good again.
And by that, I mean like this:

I wish I could say that I made this lit­tle beauty, but it’s a gem that I found on Etsy in my lat­est round of research.
My research for ~ a chal­lenge of the utmost kind ~ that is.
Begin­ning today, Jan­u­ary 1, […]

Not every day is full of dis­ci­plines and tidy­ing up and laun­dry.  Not every day indeed.  Some days, in fact, are self­ishly devoted to what I want to do, and appar­ently all I wanted to do for the last four days was spin yarn.
Patient Papa, strong and flex­i­ble as always, took the helm of the household […]

On the left there you can see the lat­est ver­sion of my upcy­cled yarn efforts.  Basi­cally I ply a bunch of plain bits together into some­thing new and funky.  I’ve been learn­ing a lot by work­ing with already-made yarns and it’s a relax­ing and low-key way to prac­tice nov­elty spin­ning tech­niques like coil spin­ning and […]

…then make this lit­tle bag with this lit­tle bird.  And guess what?  It’s a knit­ting bag.  (That just means there’s a pocket inside that’s tai­lor made for knit­ting nee­dles, cro­chet hooks, what-have-you.  You can put other stuff in there too.)  The applique was inspired by a piece done by the fine folks at Sil­ver Seed Nation.
The Bozeman […]

Oh yeah, like I’ve had time to do that since the baby arrived.  This lit­tle num­ber is a project that I fin­ished before Annabelle made her early debut.  It’s a perfect-size-and-perfect-shape purse (can also eas­ily dou­ble as a dia­per bag with­out look­ing too diaper-baggy) that was made for the April Gypsy Road team chal­lenge.  It […]

I’ve started a Face­book group for the peace­ful pea­cock!!  There you can see a port­fo­lio of pre­vi­ous works as well as receive notices for future items for sale.
All you have to do is visit the peace­ful peacock’s group page and join the group.  If you wanna be pals, then please look for “Peace­ful Peacock” because I reserve my real […]