tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844957146661377392024-02-19T17:23:27.656-08:00Life With Laura RoseWild and woolly adventures in fiber arts, yoga and travel with an awesomely aged gen-X-er.LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-81741028402895779512018-11-30T13:51:00.001-08:002018-11-30T14:25:13.540-08:00Tropical Mindfulness<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none; font-size: xx-small;">It's not like I'm some kind of mindfulness expert, but I have been attempting to be more mindful since beginning my yoga teacher training with Yoga Calm about 5 years ago. Mindfulness certainly doesn't always make life more pleasant, but it definitely makes it more interesting, and I enjoy weaving it into my yoga teaching and daily life. My starter book was <u>Mindfulness for Beginners</u> by Jon Kabat-Zinn.</span></span></span><br />
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LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-77420348610540910702017-11-03T12:28:00.002-07:002017-11-03T12:36:55.179-07:00Crafting Season Is Upon Us:<h4>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fall brings us shorter, rainier days and the reminder that some major holidays are drawing closer. For me, this means more hours to spin, knit and weave as I snuggle in to my cozy home and happily think of gifts I might still have time to create for my loved ones. Whether you are a fiber fanatic, a paper piecing powerhouse, a jewelry genie, a decoupage diva, a sewing superstar, or a woodworking wizard, you too may relish this time of year. As much joy as I get from my various pursuits however, they all have one thing in common. I find myself sitting for hours in less than perfect ergonomic form; my hands, wrists, shoulders and back get tired if I stay at it too long. Then there is the self-imposed stress of making sure I have just the right thing for each person!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And let us not forget the pressure so many of us put on ourselves to make everything “just right” for the holidays; often crafting into the wee hours and stressing about getting things started or finished. Most Bo Yoga classes include sessions of energy work involving fun and easy vibration/dance and Qi Gong/Tai Chi style movements before final savasana to help balance minds and emotions. I find this aspect of Bo Yoga to be gloriously simple as there are no complex cues to follow, yet deeply moving. The energy work calms and grounds my mind and nervous system, leaving me refreshed and energized to take on the next craft project, or, perhaps, to decide that I have done enough for this year.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Join my class on Monday mornings at Eugene Yoga downtown at 10:30-11:45 to experience Bo yoga for yourself. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Bo Yoga is appropriate for all ages and genders of crafty (and non-crafty!) folks. It is a supportive, non-competitive, all levels community. Beginners are welcome, and even the most experienced yogis will find something new to love in Bo Yoga.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">You can visit my new website at <a href="http://shadygroveendeavors.com/">shadygroveendeavors.com</a> to learn more about my new ventures as a yoga teacher.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">Don't live in Eugene? </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">Check out </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><a href="http://boyoga.com/">boyoga.com</a> for more information about this growing trend.</span></span></span></div>
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Well, the video wasn't that amazing anyhow. You get the idea! ;)LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-67109903207604652392016-10-08T13:30:00.003-07:002016-10-08T13:31:49.535-07:00Thread Organized! I am not going to write much, in case this doesn't work, because I'm trying to do it from my phone. I saw an idea on Pinterest for organizing your thread spools on dowels, and I was talking to my brilliant husband, Seth, about it, and he said, "You could use old knitting needles." My job dropped at his brilliance, because I had been wondering how you would keep them from falling off the other ends of the dowels. I exclaimed, "You're smarter than Pinterest!" He replied that he is also smarter than Facebook. No doubt about that! Anyhow, goodness knows that I have enough old aluminum knitting needles but I have never gotten rid of for some reason. I also lucked out tremendously, when I walk two blocks to the nearest St. Vincent Depaul, and found the perfect vase: wide all the way down with a nice heavy bottom and tall enough to not tip over. Not to mention it was marked at four dollars but was a green tag 50% off week so it was only two dollars!<br />
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Well, the video wasn't that amazing anyhow. you get the idea! ;)LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-88774384718172909272016-10-08T13:30:00.001-07:002016-10-08T13:30:16.415-07:00Thread Organized! I am not going to write much, in case this doesn't work, because I'm trying to do it from my phone. I saw an idea on Pinterest for organizing your thread spools on dowels, and I was talking to my brilliant husband, Seth, about it, and he said, "You could use old knitting needles." My job dropped at his brilliance, because I had been wondering how you would keep them from falling off the other ends of the dowels. I exclaimed, "You're smarter than Pinterest!" He replied that he is also smarter than Facebook. No doubt about that! Anyhow, goodness knows that I have enough old aluminum knitting needles but I have never gotten rid of for some reason. I also lucked out tremendously, when I walk two blocks to the nearest St. Vincent Depaul, and found the perfect vase: wide all the way down with a nice heavy bottom and tall enough to not tip over. Not to mention it was marked at four dollars but was a green tag 50% off week so it was only two dollars!<br />
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Well, the video wasn't that amazing anyhow. you get the idea! ;)LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-58818029621684274502015-04-24T11:47:00.000-07:002015-04-24T12:32:35.002-07:00I Am Not a Food Blogger or An Apple Tech Blogger, but I Try to be Helpful<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Can you read the green highlighted part? IT'S THE DATE! <span style="background-color: #2f2f2f; color: #b3b3b3; font-family: Times, Georgia, Courier, serif; font-size: 14px;">Allen Looms AL1- "Looms for Smaller Rooms". Article from The Oregonian Sunday Magazine. 8-7-49. 3 p.</span><span style="background-color: #2f2f2f; color: #b3b3b3; font-family: Times, Georgia, Courier, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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It was right at the top, so, I, uummmmm, didn't read it (classic mistake & bane of every teacher's existence). It even has the page number!<br />
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I think THIS note was from the previous, previous (previous) owner. Susan Lilly still has a website, at <a href="http://weavingroom.com/">weavingroom.com</a> which I am going to go check out a little more closely very soon to read about her garment construction books, but back to the note:</div>
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I visited the <a href="http://www.weaversfriend.com/page1/page1.html" target="_blank">Historic Looms of America Website</a> just now. While they do have much worthwhile information about historic looms, they do not have any information on the Arthur A. Allen Loom posted. I imagine it is just too small a company to have been prioritized as of yet. Hence, I am going to attempt to scan it for you.* I will do it page by page, as I think it will be too small to see in its adorable original 7" x 11" folded into thirds size. </div>
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It really just explains how to warp it. The rest is up to you. Hurrah! Golly gee, it never occurred to me to fold it to make reaching the heddles easier while warping.<br />
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I have been saving the best for last. Well, actually I am saving the best until I can go to the library tomorrow and see if I can find this on microfilm to get a complete copy. This article appears to have appeared in the Sunday Oregonian Magazine in August 1944. The last bit is missing front this copy, and it is pretty poorly reproduced here, so let's cross our fingers and just check out this teaser:<br />
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LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-34431795160600362472015-03-30T20:18:00.002-07:002015-03-30T20:28:14.512-07:00Weaving Around Sooooo, I just purposely deleted a half-finished (incredibly funny, of course) post from 5 months ago. It was all about those dishtowels I showed you the wound warp pictures of. Since then I can hardly believe how many projects I have done on my lovely, mid-century vintage Arthur A. Allen folding floor loom. Which brings me to a big sigh.<br />
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I need to sell it. The good news is that it is because I love weaving so much that I have purchased a different loom. I am hoping that I have moved up a mini-notch on the loom ladder and not just betrayed my one true love. Time will tell.<br />
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So this post is going to be all about how I have improved and woven on this loom for my exciting first year of discovery of weaving around the weaving world. It may well need to turn into several posts. Or if I do manage it all at once, feel free to skim and/or read it over several visits!<br />
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I bought this loom and immediately signed up for a 3 day intermediate weaving class at fiber arts retreat called <a href="http://www.eugenetextilecenter.com/home/etc/smartlist_136/smartlist_136/" target="_blank">Fiber In The Forest</a>, run by the local weaving shop, The Eugene Textile Center. I figured I had better whip something out pretty quickly at home in Rose Cottage before driving into the wilds of Oregon with it to be sure I could get the thing to function at all!<br />
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Weaving Tips I learned from this project:</div>
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*Handwoven dish-towels are 110% better than store-bought.</div>
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In the collage below, look at the pictures counterclockwise starting with the cones of yarn on the stairs<br />
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*Using 2 very different threads in your warp is extremely difficult because they would be happier with different tensions. </div>
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*This loom needed a little TLC and rehabilitation.</div>
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So, upon return from Fiber in The Forest I set about the beginning of the loom rehabilitation. Overall it was in great shape, but the wax cotton cords for the treadle tie ups, roller bars/harness hangers were gross and hard to handle. Also, the brake didn't work very well, which really contributed to my tension problems. Over the course of the year I managed to fix all of those things to my great satisfaction (just in time to sell it). This collage makes it look like it was all really fast, but it took several projects to identify problems, a lot of head scratching, trips to various shops and plenty of help with tool loans and a second set of hands from my handy husband.</div>
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*Don't try super-gluing sandpaper around your back beam to increase friction on the friction brake. It helps for about 5 minutes, then you can't get it off easily.</div>
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Wow, I feel like I am starting to weave around nearly literally after staring at the computer screen so long. Perhaps now is a good time to pause and publish. Given my previous record on "coming right back" to the blog, perhaps I should end with one shot of the loom in full, just in case I don't make it back super soon. If you have any specific questions about any of these things, shoot me a comment!</div>
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Then we got in our little rental car and drove around the north side of the island to Pahoa. On the way we saw Akaka Falls where someone had left a little yarn bomb friendship ring on the rail. </div>
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After Hilo/Pahoa we kept going south on the ring road to visit the center of Pele's domain at Volcanoes National Park. On the way we saw where she had obliterated a favorite black sand surfing beach and an entire semi-occupied subdivision in the 1980s and 1990s (maybe you watched this on a National Geographic special) and replaced it with fresh pahoehoe and a new mini-black-sand beach.</div>
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We come and cook tons of excellent fresh seafood which we purchase at <a href="http://www.localocean.net/" target="_blank">Local Ocean</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span><span style="color: #674ea7;">The Cornelius Club (invented by me):</span> Good artisanal white bread, wasabi mayo, spinach, red onion, tomato, GENTLY GRILLED FESH ALBACORE, and BACON!<br />
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The Yarn Harlot says she now only ever wears brown on airplanes, so given that she and I seem to share a propensity for spilling coffe on ourselves, I decided to follow her brilliant advice. The best part was that, since it would have been OK to spill, I never even did so all day!<br />
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So we spent the night at the <a href="http://www.grantstinn.com/" target="_blank">Grant Street Inn</a> in Bloomington, Indiana. It was very nice and conveniently located. Of course most things are pretty convenient here as it's fairly small. Actually it's a really lovely Midwestern mid-sized town. Lots of nice shops in the downtown area. One of which was a very nice LYS called Y<a href="http://yarnsunlimited.com/" target="_blank">arns Unlimited</a> just off the courthouse square. I had a moment of fear that it had closed because the street numbering was weird--even numbers on one block and odd on the next. It is at 115 Walnut and there was an empty storefront next to 118! Luckily we persevered. I bought 3 skeins of locally dyed organic cotton/bamboo worsted weight yarn. Ohh I'll take a photo! </div>
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<br />LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-1235358420284502722014-08-01T18:12:00.003-07:002014-08-01T18:33:55.078-07:00Fiber Financed My Fair ForayIn Washington, PA, my hometown, and seat of the county government we had an awesome County Fair. There were so many animals and exhibits it easily took all day to see everything. I don't know if it's still awesome as it was in the 1970s an 1980s, but The Lane County Fair seems shockingly small to me given the square miles of Washington county are 861 and Lane County comes in at 4,722. <br />
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We had fun treasure hunting for my 10 items. I just had to fix the collar on this one though!</div>
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All the curtains are "up- cycled" hand-pieced quilt tops that I got at St. Vincent De Paul's!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Cool old glass shades from Hippo Hardware.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxglLRBBm40Xw8dRzjjLVdF_a5zwQ29V__76Y0nxQ4fPu-am5sJbOoMtq24IDktIbeOGDZAi3n33-8VEFv4kb_KvMEydLeMJT83NaF2xopgp1wMhPdt5TSSefOf-bLWjkiKkV0bmoQmLA/s1600/IMG_5634.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxglLRBBm40Xw8dRzjjLVdF_a5zwQ29V__76Y0nxQ4fPu-am5sJbOoMtq24IDktIbeOGDZAi3n33-8VEFv4kb_KvMEydLeMJT83NaF2xopgp1wMhPdt5TSSefOf-bLWjkiKkV0bmoQmLA/s1600/IMG_5634.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><br />
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Come visit. I'll make us some tea and we can craft the afternoon away!<br />
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Seth's copper work powder room sink and counter for "kitchen" area<br />
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The laundry sink is awesome. It has it's own built in washboard, and came with its own cabinet.</div>
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One of the things we had to do to be energy efficient is to prove that Rose Cottage is tightly insulated enough. So this company came and did a "Blower Door Test." they had to do it twice because he couldn't believe how tight this little building is!<br />
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Seth cutting battens to finish the siding while I start moving in!<br />
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My "new" Oregon made mid-century Allen Folding loom. It needs some work, but it came with lots of extras making it a pretty darn good deal.<br />
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So, here is one of my infamous whirlwind photo heavy, sparing text, catch-up posts, to continue the saga of how to build an art studio in your neighbors' back yard:<br />
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Have Andrew from Salamander Construction come back and start putting up your redwood board siding. He was very patient with cutting the top of each board just a weetle different at the top for the crazy swoopy roof!<br />
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These guys were fast and awesome and I LOVE plaster. I love the roughness and the look. It just seems "real" in a world where so much is pre-fabricated. Smearing mud on your walls--can't get much more old school than that.<br />
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LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-87091124731814106142014-04-07T18:00:00.001-07:002014-04-07T20:57:59.653-07:00Darling Claire's Pea/Coco-nut Power Pods On yet another tangent--neither fiber nor travel related--here is a great (not to mention vegan and gluten free) no-bake cookie recipe I have been making. I got the basic recipe from my good friend Claire Darling. You can fudge the amounts one way and another and it will (probably) work just fine, but this is what I used on my second batch and they worked great. More coconut oil makes them sturdier, but I like them a little squooshier. I imagine you could obviously use any kind of nut butter/ nut combination that sounds good or that you have handy. <br />
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Quite a few people have requested the recipe, so I thought I would just post it so it will "always" be handy if anyone wants it!<br />
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<b>Toast 3/4 c. EACH raw filberts</b> (a.k.a. Hazelnuts to folks outside of the PNW) <b>and almonds</b> for a few minutes in your toaster oven (a.k.a. easy oven for my Canadian cousins) or under your broiler. Let them cool before trying to chop them up. <br />
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<b>Chop 1 c. of them very fine into a flour</b> consistency.<b> Chop the other 1/2 c. coarse</b> like the chunks in chunky peanut butter. I used my coffee grinder, but you can use a food processor. Or you can buy nut flour in a natural food store and use that.<br />
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<b>3/4 c. Coconut Oil</b><br />
<b>3/4 c. honey</b><br />
<b>1 c. unsweetened nut butter </b>(I'm sure you can use regular old Peter Pan, but I imagine they will be quite sweet)<br />
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Stir the oats in well and let them warm up and cook a bit for about 3-4 minutes.<br />
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As Claire said, "Basically you just want to glomb all that goo together."<br />
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I put mine into mini muffin tins lined with mini muffin tin papers, which made them very handy for sharing, not to mention super cute, but you can also just drop spoonfuls of the stuff onto parchment paper. <br />
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If you live in a hot climate and you don't over air-condition your house, you will probably need to keep them in the fridge or the coconut oil (which is what makes them solid) will be too soft and melty to hold them together.<br />
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These are kid approved, and a really great for between meal snacks for picky or A.D.D eaters who might not get quite enough at regular meals.<br />
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P.S. I have dreams of rolling them into little balls and dipping them in melted chocolate. Let me know if you try that! I would also love to hear about any other adaptations.<br />
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P.P.S. That's Grandma Hisrich's cake plate I have them on there. <br />
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I "unvented" a new way to make catnip toys: a needle-felted, scarily realistic, cat-nip rat.<br />
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Take a little fiber (washed, but still a little sheep-y seems to intrigue Bumbles better than scoured within an inch of its life fleece) and needle it to make a little mat. <br />
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Attach the whiskers and tail by needle felting a little more fiber over them. Detail pointy nose shape.</div>
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Add some eyes with little bits of a darker color, and Viola! A pet rat for your beloved cat.</div>
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I keep getting a little scare every time I see it on the floor!</div>
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I love my cat, but I love my brother-in-law, at least as much. A few years ago I made him a cotton throw, but it was always just a little small for him (though he loves it dearly!). I knew he would appreciate this:</div>
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It's based on the Modern Miters Afghan free pattern from LionBrand, and is made with super easy care Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick yarn. I started it at the end of December managed to finish it in time for it to arrive right on his birthday the day after Valentine's Day. He called me to thank me even before he called his own mother!</div>
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LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-8836679464942534282014-01-13T18:53:00.002-08:002014-01-13T19:37:14.266-08:00Rose Cottage Goin' Up Like a House A'fire ----- (FIGURATIVELY, of course!)Things have progressed so quickly on my studio I can hardly believe it. Between Seth and our friend Andrew of Salamnader Construction and various sub contractors we already have walls and a roof!<br />
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When the concrete dries and the snow all melts again, draw the stairs in on form to be sure they will line up with walls properly.</div>
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STEP 10: Have Pete of Sunstone Hardscapes go to the quarry with his big ol' truck and get a bunch of rocks so you can start landscaping (by "you" I do actually mean I helped, though Seth and Pete of course handled the ginormous ones!)</div>
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STEP 11: Get a lumber order figured out and delivered.</div>
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STEP 12: Build 3 walls all on top of each other flat on the ground so you can see if they line up with the stairs. Be sure you build them in the right order as this will be important later!</div>
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STEP 13: Get as many big strapping men as you can roust up on a weekday morning to come a push the walls into place! Just like the barn raising in Witness! But with fewer Amish people and no intrigue. We did have a cute little 2 year old girl and a dog at least.</div>
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The 2 year old exclaims, "It's a HOUSE!"<br />
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STEP 14- oh, about STEP 22:<br />
Finish the sheathing. Get it inspected. Build the roof framing. Tar paper the roof. Get a bunch of windows you ordered months ago delivered. Put them in. Wrap the whole thing in Tyvek. Get Brett from Baxter's Plumbing to come and do a bunch of plumbing (duh). Do a bunch of framing inside for the loft. Seriously, this all happened in like a week! I hardly did any of this (though I did take all the packaging off the windows!) and I'm exhausted just typing about it!<br />
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<i>As my scientist housemate in college would often say when she had to write a paper, "Well begun is half done!"</i>LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-60973210793437109882013-12-18T12:55:00.003-08:002014-01-13T17:55:34.821-08:00Rose Cottage Puts Down Roots<br />
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During my year off from work, while trying to figure out to do when I grow up, I am being allowed to build a fiber arts studio on the rental property owned by my in-laws next door to my house. It took awhile to get going,a s these things are wont to do. Then it snowed and froze here for a week (which is highly unusual) so that slowed us down, but now we are really moving along.</div>
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Find an empty corner in the neighbor's yard:</div>
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Try not to worry what that old slab might be covering up.</div>
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Step 2:</div>
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Spend lots of time making plans and getting a permit the with help of Architects, friends relatives, engineers, City of Eugene Workers etc.</div>
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Hire some big guys with loud cutting machines to come slice out the slab. </div>
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Be shocked that that tiny slab was like 8-10 inches thick.<br />
Be Very Happy that it was just covering up good clean dirt.<br />
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Dig a Big Hole. Then immediately fill it partway back up again with gravel. Be Happy you have good contractors with big trucks and strong arms as friends!</div>
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Build a Really Strong Box (a.k.a. a form) to hold all the concrete you plan to pour into the hole.<br />
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Enjoy a visit from a big truck with Spiral Stair parts. The spiral-y bit is the railing.<br />
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LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-79150838041999634012013-07-27T15:11:00.004-07:002013-07-28T09:26:13.462-07:00Ultimate ChileAfter using a post title with a word like "penultimate" in it, you're kind of stuck with doing an "ultimate" installment even if it's <strike>a year and a half</strike> three and a half years after the fact and you've done a million things in between and can't find the picture file where you had sorted out the last of the photos you thought you might use. I guess I'll try to meet the challenge, but it's going to be pretty seat of the pants! Here goes:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seth's birthday dinner in a revolving restaurant, consisting of more fish soup that had some specific name (to which there is a related poem) that I cannot recall, than you could shake a stick at.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"> Best fireworks ever all along the bay that night, but couldn't get good pictures.</span><br />
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LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-40370725438478236862013-07-27T14:59:00.002-07:002013-07-27T14:59:55.717-07:00It Gets BetterThis is for you if you are are young person who has ever been picked on, bullied, harrassed or otherwise maltreated because of what you look like, who you fall in love with, what gender you are, what you can/cannot do, what you do/do not enjoy doing:<br />
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IT GETS BETTER! You might feel like there is no one like you in the world. That is not true. There are lots of people like you, whatever that is, you WILL find them. Maybe you have people telling you that you are messed up or wrong. That is not true.<br />
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If you are nice, kind and considerate to others, you are a good person. Maybe you haven't met them yet, but there are thousands of people out there who will care for you whatever your tastes and interests.<br />
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<a href="http://www.itgetsbetter.org/">http://www.itgetsbetter.org</a>LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284495714666137739.post-52960612039501925952010-08-22T18:52:00.000-07:002010-10-04T11:10:52.762-07:00Penultimate Installment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycEROFQoxOCqD3li_GkK1QtLTv0rDr27m07uZQwEWGw_8KsJ1GwRVJKXHpEeXAz7amOYLm0g-Ff2nXlp9rmv6ctiCNLvhO2I5Uyd1X3F-H1tmND7HZbj_j64POXgTpdU0UmXS_FcnhOAk/s1600/DSCF4650.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjycEROFQoxOCqD3li_GkK1QtLTv0rDr27m07uZQwEWGw_8KsJ1GwRVJKXHpEeXAz7amOYLm0g-Ff2nXlp9rmv6ctiCNLvhO2I5Uyd1X3F-H1tmND7HZbj_j64POXgTpdU0UmXS_FcnhOAk/s200/DSCF4650.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508418762709735698" border="0" /></a><br />Summer break is over here in Eugene, and I am still writing about summer break starting in Chile in January! The drive back to Valparaíso was uneventful. The high point of the drive was when we took some photos of a giant copper smelting plant which took about 5 minutes to drive through. Copper is used for all kinds of stuff from medicine to space shuttles according to the billboards along the road, and is one of the most lucrative industries in Chile.<br /><br /><br />Getting close to Valp'o, the traffic became pretty thick. When we had left there was almost none, but summer vacation was gearing up into full swing for the New Year! Charles and Reida showed up at Kate and John's, and we started a new segment of the trip together. First we explored the <a href="http://www.winesofchile.org/the-wines/wine-regions/casablanca-valley/">Casablanca Valley wine region</a> for a day since we still had the car. Kate and John had to work so we were on our own for navigation, but there is only one big road out of Valp'o east towards Santiago, and that's the Casablanca Valley, so we did OK. We ate lunch at a vineyard called<a href="http://www.indomita.cl/home.html">Indomita</a> . The architecture of the building was too much in my opinion, but the food, wine, service and setting were fabulous.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKZZGKEGXHWPOhc1POeO_jHDjEJ5ADKIpnZCNVcfKVheSzHp85c1WiF8HPWGmcBzqW2X4bCJATyB2GBhzbOPZ4q6waq5hyphenhyphenCeeINeYf7mwI986ynEFOIqYiGDYR_xYBM-JEuzap3MWqgUm/s1600/DSCF4700.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKZZGKEGXHWPOhc1POeO_jHDjEJ5ADKIpnZCNVcfKVheSzHp85c1WiF8HPWGmcBzqW2X4bCJATyB2GBhzbOPZ4q6waq5hyphenhyphenCeeINeYf7mwI986ynEFOIqYiGDYR_xYBM-JEuzap3MWqgUm/s320/DSCF4700.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508421613054324610" border="0" /></a><br /><br />After lunch we had a bit of trouble getting across the highway to our other vineyard, <a href="http://www.emiliana.cl/vineyards-winery/casablanca-valley/">Emiliana</a>, and missed our tour reservation, but they still did a wonderful tasting for us. It was very civilized--sitting at a table with a bi-lingual hostess who poured us hearty tastes of their delicious bio-dynamic wines and told us about the discovery of the Carmenere varietal which had been thought extinct (and was in Europe), but which some visiting European vintner found among the Merlot vines in Chile. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJRgcKT2s201S15c3Dq970MZR1KYmM-03oj8krBaLKXgjQBE5xBsVAjaQq7RGUjfPoNfM29U6noQpAZYG37VMavaa0pGC5Fp_aabgXjgt_piaPJ5AaWPZPXHzX-Zto3j5OP-h51p1yrB6/s1600/DSCF4705.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJRgcKT2s201S15c3Dq970MZR1KYmM-03oj8krBaLKXgjQBE5xBsVAjaQq7RGUjfPoNfM29U6noQpAZYG37VMavaa0pGC5Fp_aabgXjgt_piaPJ5AaWPZPXHzX-Zto3j5OP-h51p1yrB6/s320/DSCF4705.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508425130560696114" border="0" /></a>It's a delicious varietal; try it if you ever find it. It has more oomph than Merlot, but is easier to take than a big Cabernet or Pinot Noir. This was a lovely vineyard with guinea hens and chickens running about and flowers everywhere; I quite liked their building as well!<br /><br /><br /><br />Another day while Kate and John were busy dealing with their real lives, Charles, Reida, Seth and I went traipsing about Valparaíso. The city is made of steep watersheds running down to the sea, which create a succession of hills. Each hill is a neighborhood with it's own particular flavor. The famous Chileno poet Pablo Neruda had one of his several houses/wives/mistresses in Valp'o, at the very top of the road system on one of these hills and it is now a museum. It is called La Sebastiana, and you can only take pictures through the windows to the outside (the views are quite lovely), but you really should patiently check out this website: <a href="http://www.fundacionneruda.org/imagenes_sebastiana.htm"> http://www.fundacionneruda.org/imagenes_sebastiana.htm</a> as he was one goofy quirky collector of a man. His houses and belongings were all partially destroyed/stolen by the Pinochet regime (they didn't like people speaking for the common man, and that was what he did) but this foundation retrieved/restored several of his houses around the country.<br /><br />One day, as Reida and Kate are both very horse-y ty<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhue_GhSWRFx_RLekjYVWM_7pS277sPzAIVJLkuFGUkDRJNzCsQLcrrlbc5HpIT7dBd4dx_IuVqrgnjPJXIaZGy3RVTc54zUuERIga3MtGunpQY5ugD3U5z2oLv6SkP8DQjVxaagfLmBjKz/s1600/DSCF4746.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhue_GhSWRFx_RLekjYVWM_7pS277sPzAIVJLkuFGUkDRJNzCsQLcrrlbc5HpIT7dBd4dx_IuVqrgnjPJXIaZGy3RVTc54zUuERIga3MtGunpQY5ugD3U5z2oLv6SkP8DQjVxaagfLmBjKz/s320/DSCF4746.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524249680311724162" border="0" /></a>pes (and Charles holds his own) we went on a little trail ride through the hills East of Valp'o at a place called Caballo Puro. They had some awesomely expensive horses there (not the ones people like us got to ride) and one of the hands told us (Kate) about them and all the security they have to have as horse theft is crazy-common. It was a pretty nice place with a nice restaurant and all, but they were a little disorganized, and maybe trying to rip us off the tiniest bit (that's just how things work some places), so Kate had to pull out her "Crazy (yet entirely fluent in Castellano) Gringa personality" to get things straightened out. It was awesome to sit back and watch her "negotiate." I had the nicest horse in the world (Mariposa --means butterfly, and also a kind of Lily), but I could barely move afterwards--oh my achin' knees! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yvmzz9Xt2eNz74Y4M0pCOEUVzxhOLmZ7RMNk_KtiBOgsbbQADw9VN4hQpCJ9qMiU8RjFzxBBl6lIhNFW9Q1Mtub_NfVNZIpk8L9eXlyeq-fosCsHBlkdO5N0qWZSXg8fOLDNfC9hEBhi/s1600/DSCF4758.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yvmzz9Xt2eNz74Y4M0pCOEUVzxhOLmZ7RMNk_KtiBOgsbbQADw9VN4hQpCJ9qMiU8RjFzxBBl6lIhNFW9Q1Mtub_NfVNZIpk8L9eXlyeq-fosCsHBlkdO5N0qWZSXg8fOLDNfC9hEBhi/s320/DSCF4758.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524249692818231458" border="0" /></a>I did it though, and we did get a nice view of the landscape. Somehow John managed to slip out of this one. Hmmm.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Each day brought a new mini adventure it seems. On yet another day we headed down for a day trip to the quaint little fishing village of Quintay (notice it has all the letter of quaint right in its name!)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCIElgDDrcFKQRAnWXI_qsHY2C_OPCb4VQ85q2X37AblQKOq0LH2Ep00RF10e7W_AHDJaxj6VAm6KcbEZkBpfT7u-jQq5q-bAWomJK44ixB-FsYtFWaLarOrSDhQueO-AlP-izw45QbRh/s1600/DSCF4775.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCIElgDDrcFKQRAnWXI_qsHY2C_OPCb4VQ85q2X37AblQKOq0LH2Ep00RF10e7W_AHDJaxj6VAm6KcbEZkBpfT7u-jQq5q-bAWomJK44ixB-FsYtFWaLarOrSDhQueO-AlP-izw45QbRh/s320/DSCF4775.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508432617530056610" border="0" /></a> which used to have a whaling station but since that is not so legal anymore, one of the universities in Santiago has turned it into a marine science research facility. That is where Kate was about to have her special summer course, which Charles was down there to teach part of, which led to this whole trip we all took to Chile in the first place. Being guests of Kate we got a nice long tour. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrYQmGNeQdM97Xe03rHn2nFcx5TzqaejGpm-CPNPugFdWJSNJESPZy6fOd_8yPwMiYC33QnrlAxDmv93boYWAe870V_zfv_9bbphchbY9NFWSqhmXHJXiEJW3oKPNoYDOubUJKQm6LT1p/s1600/DSCF4779.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrYQmGNeQdM97Xe03rHn2nFcx5TzqaejGpm-CPNPugFdWJSNJESPZy6fOd_8yPwMiYC33QnrlAxDmv93boYWAe870V_zfv_9bbphchbY9NFWSqhmXHJXiEJW3oKPNoYDOubUJKQm6LT1p/s320/DSCF4779.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508432624428578530" border="0" /></a>Their main focus it seems is to help create methods of raising nursery stock of commercially important fish which can be released into their real habitats, thus helping maintain fisheries without the problems that come with many fish farming operations. They had pretty much figured out the conger eel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Sl3fYwzgPcYyJVuZdvKEVTs2hNrouJQjrJXnW_1hKKF9zY7UsaRYcL7aaID3-yL5x1OP2iTK27hKIQg6vuDwX5IFu7N3Ffmf5y6ie3kUcIzjF1JjpfAy6_a15Wm2_yxBfnctcFFPIUq9/s1600/DSCF4781.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Sl3fYwzgPcYyJVuZdvKEVTs2hNrouJQjrJXnW_1hKKF9zY7UsaRYcL7aaID3-yL5x1OP2iTK27hKIQg6vuDwX5IFu7N3Ffmf5y6ie3kUcIzjF1JjpfAy6_a15Wm2_yxBfnctcFFPIUq9/s320/DSCF4781.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508432629732372146" border="0" /></a> (which is delicious and hearty and a favorite there, and which is not really an eel) and are now working on sea urchins! <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAXV-KyIsAuE-X5hBkYpNG5wsFi3geTevhFhkbL3C2_g32u8lLcSqsGIhCfZNThthgY5ymTcq8lXoIwgPIEYjGiS-ermWJDgcAGDL7OFFdluuiyEFU7_XVD0xWTthV5JkOt5FZ6yvL0vV/s1600/DSCF4783.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAXV-KyIsAuE-X5hBkYpNG5wsFi3geTevhFhkbL3C2_g32u8lLcSqsGIhCfZNThthgY5ymTcq8lXoIwgPIEYjGiS-ermWJDgcAGDL7OFFdluuiyEFU7_XVD0xWTthV5JkOt5FZ6yvL0vV/s320/DSCF4783.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508432641678405842" border="0" /></a>We saw tiny baby ones which I could barely even photograph they were so small (but they looked just the same!).<br /><br />We just spent the afternoon in Quintay, but Charles and Reida went back after we left for the course of course and reported that the little restaurant on the beach was most excellent!<br /><br />Then we headed back to Valp'o for New Year's weekend, when things really get going down there!LauraRosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.com1