and also:

also, thought i'd show you our new house:


and here are some scrap garlands i started to cut out, for decorating a three-year-old's birthday party purposes:

(who knows if i will really get it done. . .)

and i've been painting things i'm grateful for on pieces of sycamore bark. not sure why. may be making mobiles for faraway friends, mobiles that are really too delicate to send in the mail:

finn at the county fair, which was fun but also depressing, since all the animals were so very hot and uncomfortable. . .