Badges!

Every young hacker needs to be honored for his or her achievements.  And now they can, with badges from Adafruit.   How cool are these?

Are you picking out your sash color? FYI:  purple has already been taken.

On another geeky note.  Guess who got glasses.  That's right Repunzel and her best buddy ella.

I know what you're thinking.  Why yes, her glasses will match her sash.

Stuff

Smithsonian Magazine is having a photo contest.  Such beautiful and haunting images of people, places and spaces.

You can vote for your favorite here.

Also, a very funny movie by a former student of the professor's.  Called Red Moon.  Yes, it's about Russians..and werewolves, and lots of paper mache.

Plus new fav food blogs.  Here and Here.  Gorgeous mouth-watering pictures made with lots of healthy seasonal foods. Yum. Yum.

And - this is just cool.  Oh the possibilities.

One more thing.  I'm learning how to crochet.  Just to make that dress on the cover of this. It's just like that Anthropologie dress I'm lusting over - but way cooler and about $150 less.      
 

I have a shaker too!

This is so unbelievably cool.  Right now, both my husband and I are majorly crushing on this family.

Snow Days

We've had four snow days in a row.  Four lovely, wonderful snow days.  Which was nice.  Very nice.  It gave me the chance to slow down and really do...nothing.  But looking back, it seems the week was actually filled with family, food and a lot of fun.    

Late mornings gave way to scones dripping with backyard-blackberry jam...

Outside, lots of of big, fluffy balls of snow...

Inside, lot of tiny melted balls of gooey-ness...  

Decadent lunches of fried cheesy ravioli smothered in this...

Perpetual pots of tea...

Games...

More snow play.  My husband went out to shovel, but built this instead...

Snow on Christmas lights - finally!

And making a wish each night, for another snow day...

Bluebells

I love this picture so much.  It makes me want to paint and draw and grow lots and lots of bluebells.

So dramatic, and yet incredibly calming.

This is also amazing.  It makes me want to pick up my cello again.  Oh, so much to make and do...

Mr. & Mrs. Nutter

Our little fuzzy forest friends keep eating all the bird seeds.  So we decided to leave out some bowls filled with said seeds and nuts - hoping, that the neighboring finches and chickadees might actually get to have a snack.

Half an hour later, I hear Tony yell from the kitchen, "There's two of them!" Well of course.  I did leave out two bowls.

Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Nutter:

Seriously, is that winter fluff or does someone need to get this?  Which by the way is free and fabulous.

New Discoveries

How so very true.

Today I found a ball of missing grey yarn, some shiny teal buttons, several torn out soup recipes and a soft wintry scarf.

How lucky am I.