After Victory

Sixteenth Weekiversary

Posted by Katherine on July 20th, 2008

Ted has been focused on two things this past week, putting his toys in his mouth and blowing raspberries. I think that he picked up the raspberry blowing from his cousin Jack. He started it when we got home and of course Pat and I have been encouraging him, so he does it all the time. It is pretty funny to see him concentrating so hard on doing something so silly. He is really perfecting his technique.

I should have posted this last week, but Ted has a new step-cousin! And its a girl! He wasn’t the youngest for long. Ted now has one cousin, five boy step-cousins (and another on the way), and two girl step-cousins. There are going to be so many cousins his age to play with when he is older. He is pretty lucky.

Pat got me this onesie for Ted from etsy.

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Spree

Posted by Katherine on May 28th, 2008

For my birthday I was given a few credit card gift cards. Normally I would use gift cards like these on practical stuff for the house or baby stuff. This time with Pat’s encouragement I went to my Etsy Favorites page and had myself a little shopping spree. It was so much fun it was hard to stop. Here are some of my purchases.

Little Sparrows

I bought this print from The Yumi Yumi Shop. She has lots of prints of flowers and birds that are “giclee prints of original illustrations using pen and ink, watercolor and a little digital tweaking.” She also has some very cool modern illustrations of owls in trees that I really like and lots of other illustrations too.

Through Light

Luminescence

These two prints are from Ola Design. I absolutely love the colors and the style. She also has lots of flowers and bird illustrations in her shop, but I particularly like her underwater scenes and really all of her art that uses the blue green color combination.

Peculiar Neighbors

This print is from A.T. Whim. Pat and I both liked the comical nature of this print. She has lots of different interesting illustrations in her shop.

Hats

And then this one came from Paula Birdy. I love these bluebirds. They have such personality, they remind me of someone I know. She has lots of bird prints and a bird print alphabet in her shop. What can I say I like birds…

Getting the mail is going to be so exciting for the next couple of weeks while these prints come in and a few other little things I ordered from Etsy.

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Weekend!

Posted by Patrick on June 16th, 2007

Oh sweet, sweet weekend!

More Yankee Visitors
Kate’s dad and stepmom came down from up north for a little pre-father’s-day North Carolina visiting action. We had a good time showing them around the house, our rapidly-expanding neighborhood, and also a visit to the Farmer’s Market in Raleigh. They took us out to eat at the Cleveland Draft House and then we got some very tasty bbq at McCall’s. Good eats and good-to-see-family.

Etsy
As we speak Kate is rocking some Etsy product using Adobe Illustrator. She’s quickly picked up one of the harder to learn design software programs. While I spent all sorts of time over the past few years learning the intricate details of Photoshop (Illustrator’s more photogenic cousin), I had forgotten a ton about Illustrator, so it’s been a learning (re-learning?) experience for both of us. Good stuff being done here, so be sure to check out MoseandZoe.com in the coming weeks for new stuff. Or check it out now, for slightly-less-new-but-still-very-cool hand-made crafts.

Movie Night
We watched The Pursuit of Happyness with The Fresh Prince. It was pretty good. Tonight I think we’re watching Running with Scissors.

Safari
Spent a few minutes this week playing around with the Windows version of Apple’s Safari web browser. Much like iTunes for windows, it’s just not as good when its not on the OS X platform. It certainly displays the pages quickly enough, but there’s no advantage to using it over say Firefox or Opera. Maybe someday, though.

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Home

Posted by Katherine on June 6th, 2007

I know you have all been missing the Kate and Zoe crafting stories… well maybe its just me…

I ordered some buttons from Sewing Stars, a Providence-based crafter. I am going to put them onto a new bag/pocket book I want to make. I decided one section of the bag will have a bunch of pin back buttons on it. So I started searching etsy for more buttons, which I am grumbling about having to pay more for shipping than buttons are worth, but without a big craft fair to go and scoop them up at, what am I going to do?

And then I decided to design my own! Very exciting! I ordered them from Kitty Crossbones on etsy. I get 100 pins with up to 10 different designs. I figured I would make a bunch of promos for Moses and Zoe and then the rest I will come up with designs that can sell in my shop and use for my bag.

I got out my currently very small button collection to see which of my fabrics they match.

Zoe promptly came over to supervise. I found it most amusing that she first pretended not to know that she had sat on anything at all and then was suddenly fascinated by what was under her.