Life *is* Magical!

Lots of fun stuff... Mom came to visit. The pic here (pretty flowers!) was taken by her boyfriend, Dave, who couldn't join us this trip but was there in spirit. :) We took her all over the greater Portland area, including the falls, Powell's and Saturday Market. We had a little party to introduce her to our friends, including Paddy and Tom and Patrick (isn't he handsome?). She saw the kids. We made sushi at home. We watched some silly movies. A good time was had by all.

We've been spending a lot of time out at Paddy's farm, too. In fact, Magic loves me so much that her kids very generously gave her to me. I can't take custody until we get our house, but it still gives me a warm glow. :)

I'm a super-happy girl these days.

Faces to Names

Left to Right: Stephen, Tammy, Nicole. This was at a McMenamins (the one on NW 23rd), which is a local chain of pubs / breweries / restaurants. Some have theaters or hotels or other fun extras. They are often in historical buildings which are revamped and throughly decorated with whimsical paintings. God, I love Portland.

Note the intruding fingertip as I learn my new phone... It's red and flips open to a QWERTY and I can access my email now! I feel so high tech! I even got a Bluetooth thingy so the GPS lady can whisper guidance in my ear.

Seattle

Part two of the PacNW Tour: On Sunday I rode up to Seattle with Emma (Dragonfibers), Shannon (Sobeknofret), and Christi (Turtlegirl). That was fun although we were all a little loopy from exhaustion and wool fumes.

The next few days involved some attempted purse making (pics if it ever gets finished), but mostly aggressive lying around at Heather's place. We had a beautiful picnic at Gasworks park (more pics here) and were joined by a surprise guest - Shawn, who was a classmate at OCOM and a witness at our wedding.

I spent one night with Holly (orange hair) which meant taking the ferry to Poulsbo. Click to embiggen - you can see one of the seagulls that love to follow the boats. She and her sweetheart have a little farm out there. Llamas and ducks and cats, oh my! We made megachunky cookies for her shop, Monster Art and Clothing, which is chock-full of locally made, well, art and clothing. Really fun unique stuff. In the pic of the two of us, I'm wearing a prototype "wolf" hat she made on custom request.

Through the whole trip (starting on the flight out to Portland, actually) I worked on my witchy socks. Here they are so far... You can see just the hint of a lace pattern starting on the back. I'll publish the pattern when done.

In other leg news, Matt collided with a bench in the EMP's Jim Henson exhibit. At first we thought it was just surface damage but now it looks like separated the periosteum or even fractured the tibia. He gets an x-ray tomorrow.