Adventures in Paradise

Friday afternoon the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History re-opened.? The renovations look amazing, but I didn't make it down to the Mall in time to do more than peek inside, that wasn...

Remember how I was going to make Wee Willie for my nephew?? With that pretty blue and gray Rowan Wool Cotton?? Yeah, except that the sweater is knit in a worsted weight yarn and the Wool Cotton is ...

This weekend, this lovely building, just a few blocks away from me, is going to be completely changed. ?It's the National Building Museum, which looked like this today (different angle) as we brace...

Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday dear Shanti,Happy Birthday to you!!

Let's see if Type Pad likes me now...yup, it appears that it does.? Photos in emotional, not chronological, order.? Here is the crowd at the ceremony on Saturday morning, about 2000 in total.? It's...

She bears the name FREEDOM.
(For those of you who can't see it, click through for an amazing video, even if it is essentially an industry commercial.) On Saturday, along with 2,000 of my friends, I...

I already voted, but today I wore my sticker.? Now, had I registered in DC, I could have left the office early.? Of course, since my boss did leave early to vote and I really needed to pack for my ...

My mom has always been one to dress up for Halloween, and for years she managed to con her engineer friends into doing the same.? I, on the other hand, never really got into the spirit after high s...

I am sadly annoyed with the pink socks I've been working on.? I've got two feet and the beginnings of two legs in two different patterns, neither of which I like.? So I'm going to have to rip them ...

After many months of only occasionally picking up my knitting, and then only to do a few rows, I actually decided last night to make a birthday gift for a dear friend.? Out came my copy of Last Min...