not here, but not anywhere else either

Here I am, showing my shining face here again. Where have I been? I'm not quite sure. First I was drinking the workahol, then I had to get summer planned and end-of-year business, and then iPhoto wanted to upgrade, but it wanted to update all of my ga-jillion photos first, and it just didn't seem like a good idea to do that with without backing up... You get it. Where I haven't been: I haven't been having an online life somewhere else and forgetting this place. I'm not on twitter, and I'm pretty much never on facebook. I think about them a lot, and I wonder if that's where other people are and if I'm missing something. But, I don't think they're for me--they seem too "on" always. I like the slow pace of sharing that blogging has. I don't think I can quite keep all my ducks in a row on facebook, and that's how I like my ducks--rowed.

I'm trying to make myself a bunch of summer shirts. This one is from Japanese craft book ISBN 9784834722506. The sleeves were really gappy, and I darted them up a bit, and they're still gappy. I like the keyhole though, and I especially like the keyhole button. The fabric is more bolt44. They have very crisp stuff. This photos was taken on the day Elie and I made compost berms in our garden where the old metal house used to be. We are so happy to be planting a garden there now. It's huge, and I hope we aren't doing too much, but there's nothing wrong with being optimistic in Spring, is there?