Gehring Road

little changes

Besides getting a new banner for Spring (I'm fully jumping the gun here as the forecast calls for 70 on Friday...) my blog underwent a few changes today. If you stopped in and saw things a little strange, here's why... I tend to jump in head first, making changes while learning how. Today I learned how to (finally!) center my new banner and eeked out a few more pixals... I've been feeling like the content on this little read has been a bit cozy and so I played around with a more spread out feel. I also learned how to use buttons...

 

 

... feel free to find me (and say hi!) on Pinterest, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. And you can now pin/tweet/like things on the blog at the footer...

 

 

... good things on the horizon indeed. Here's hoping you enjoy these new little features and that it allows me to touch base with you new and different ways! Happy Sunday...

spring stack

I don't always love the start of Daylight Savings Time... that hour of sleep lost (or that we never had in the first place depending on how you look at it) always seems to throw me for a few days, I'm a baby sensitive when it comes to sleep! But what I do love is the change in seasons. The daffodils are peaking out (they have been since those crazy 65 degree days in February and January) and it is always this time of year that I begin to think longingly of those warm summer months. If you've been around this space long enough you know I teach and I'm a baby sensitive when it comes to my summer. Those long days of doing everything or nothing without the reminder of a fairly aggressive bell is so lovely. It's around this time that it dawns on me that this really is the homestretch. And though I try to take every day as it comes, this year has been different. I find myself waiting for the last few months (and classes!) to wrap up... with all the promise that that ending really means to my life. That lovely Charley Harper calendar I picked up at Christmas tells me just a few short months and summer it will be. Though this summer is going to be a bit different with classes and coursework, I'm feeling the need to be done. I have a choice ahead of me that involves a schedule that really isn't such great timing with the end of the year with school... I'll be taking (for the last two weeks of school) two classes (which meet Monday and Wednesday, Tuesday and Thursday respectively) an hour away from school and an hour and a half away from my loves and my bed. A little daunting. That does allow me to finish up my degree this summer, and to be done with classes a little earlier than I expected. We're weighing the options and thinking it through... 

In the midst of these decisions that need to be made and soon, a little stack of spring arrived... and I wanted to tear into it and sew a simple square patchwork quilt together the second I pulled it out of the carefully packaged envelope from Fat Quarter Shop. I showed restraint and got other work done instead... maybe with a little bit of pie, but who's keeping track? I'm loving those spring-ish and happy colors. They're reminding me of the beginnings and endings of things... the beginning of spring in earnest, summer and it's bittersweetness this year, and even 2 am on November 4th. Possibly someone is lacking a little sleep! Anyway, a very happy weekend friends, I hope you are enjoying all that is in the moment, but also feeling the excitement of things on the horizon! 

etsy finds... seeing red and pink

Red Shades to Pink Vintage Wooden Spools from Found for You Supplies Etsy Shop 

I'm loving color right now... from colored jeans (aparently I have successfully blocked the Z.Cavaricci memories from my youth and am willing to try again...) to colorful fabric arrivals (oh, it's been a good, good mail week my friends... and the good is that Rob is in Seattle to miss it all!). I plan on sewing some today... maybe another granny square. That would of course require an extrication from the bed. I'm feeling a little underwater and I don't even have class this week. Stress at work combined with a stressful decision regarding summer classes is making me... a bit exhausted. So today, I'm seeing red, and pinks, and salmons... but in a good way. Here's what I've been finding...

 Big Red/Orange Vintage O'Cedar Tin in French from Abby in France Etsy Shop 

Spring No 2 Archival Print from Amber Alexander Etsy Shop 

Vintage Red Long Safety Deposit Box from The Corner Store BK Etsy Shop

Vintage French Red and White Ribbon in Display Box from Abby in Franch Etsy Shop (disclaimer, this makes a very beautiful gift for anyone with a birthday in May... ahem)

Vintage 1950s GE Pedestal Clock from The Boutiful Bird Etsy Shop

French Ladies Art Vintage Print from Stardust Art Etsy Shop

Red Vintage Enamelware Milk Can from Freuden Des Lebens Etsy Shop

Lace on Pink Laptop Bag from Track and Field Designs Etsy Shop

French Vintage Baby High Chair from La Pomme Etsy Shop

French Antique Ink Pad from The Hope Tree Etsy Shop

Wood 7up Crates from Vintage Lancaster Etsy Shop

 

I'm off to pad around the loft a bit today... hopefully some sewing will happen. Wishing you the most lovely and relaxing weekend! 

playing catch up

Beautiful Moon/Planet Alignment captured by Rob

The stars aligned this week (they really did, did you see it?) and I had a chance to get some things done besides course work. It was magical. Let's play catch up, shall we?

it snowed... finally! I was almost missing it... almost... but glad it caused very few problems

Rob made the.most.amazing.dessert.ever... and because I didn't successfully double my weight after gorging on it this week, he's making it again before he leaves for Seattle tomorrow... I tell you, I'm lucky... and in need of a good run... Here's the recipe... it's ok, eat it all and then come running with me...

we also ate tons of brussel sprouts... I love them roasted...

I cut my finger (badly) making dinner (ha! I don't often cook, and there's why, but the stars aligned you see). You're shocked that it wasn't with my rotary cutter, I know, I am too... it was remarkably close to an old rotary cutter incident scar...I'm fine and it has healed... already...

Lady Mary came to visit... I found her here... she came beautifully wrapped (of course she did)...

... I also treated myself to this beautiful little printer drawer from Etsy... I'm filling it with vintage silk spools and hanging it in the loft... I'll keep you appraised of it's progress... pretty slow right now, but kind of perfect...

I bought these tiny bits of new fabric in my new favorite colors... that poor lonely granny... oh well, soon... I did notice I had a shocking lack of peach in my stash, so I used it as an excuse to buy fabric... how those golds and that beautiful orange also landed in the cart is beyond me... I have little control... see above notes on dessert...

... I organized (well, kind of) my scrap bins... it was freeing... and a little frightening... must not save every little piece and must find a scrappy project (maybe this one?) for them soon...when sewing is an option...

 ... and this sweet lady has been making us laugh and keeping me grounded... I miss the lack of stress and work, looking forward to time with this little bean when grad classes are not in the back of my mind...

Semester is nearly done... I'm tasting the end as near more and more. April 4th is done-day for one class, May 5th for another... so, so close! Though we've had some snow lately I'm feeling the pull of those Spring days... they're getting closer and it feels very good... for so many reasons. Rob is off to Seattle for a few weeks, which is always difficult, but he has some non-work related adventures planned which makes me happy. His return is yet another thing I'm looking forward to... in the meantime, head down, balance, and breathe. Happy weekend to you!