Spring cleaning, literally and mentally
Yesterday I spent a few good hours cleaning my desk and reorganizing things. I filled a whole paper grocery bag of papers to be recycled, and I filled up a file...
Short Story: The Ruins
The Ruins a short story by Nikki Bollman The ruins sat atop the tall hill and were almost buried by the years and the creeping forest. Red stones crumbled and f...
Short Story: Forest Mother
Forest Mother a short story by Nikki Bollman She snuck out at midnight through the window in her room. The full moon cast white light over her, and she was glad...
Writing goals before NaNoWriMo
I set myself a goal of writing 1,000 words a day in September and October. I set the goal on September 3rd, but had already started hand writing the novel in a ...
Baby shower gifts: Stackable Cats and Ella Funt sweater!
I meant to post about these projects a long time ago, but better late than never! A few weeks ago we attended a baby shower for two of our friends. The little g...
Seed bead photo shoot with new camera!
This month I added four new seed bead colors to my shop, plus added a sampler of the four colors together. I consider it a success, because I sold one of the sa...
Vintage finds: Smith & Corona portable typewriters!
A couple of years ago Chris and I began a vintage typewriter collection. It wasn’t really on purpose. We happened upon a cute teal typewriter at our local...
Designing a shawl, and Etsy shop progress.
About a month ago, I got a flash of inspiration for this shawl. My LYS, Yarn Harbor, was having a customer trunk show of shawls, and as I admired the variety of...