Twenty

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025Leave a comment

Today marks twenty years of blogging, creating, and sharing online. I started my blog to connect with my sisters and mother, who lived on both coasts. At that time, I had just begun knitting, so the blog initially focused on knitting, cooking, and gardening. My cats, Bean and Noodle, also inspired the name of my Etsy shop, where I sold hand-knit baby hats starting in 2007.

For a few years, I blogged regularly and found it easy to cultivate an online community of fellow bloggers. I engaged in numerous conversations with commenters, discovered new interests, and even received design job offers from people who found my blog or Etsy shop.

As time passed, social media and my newsletter started to replace my blog as my primary platforms for sharing. However, I never completely stopped blogging. Since 2020, I’ve been publishing a series of Five Question Interviews featuring local women creatives and business owners from my small town and nearby communities.

Looking back at my old blog posts, Instagram updates, and newsletters is a lot of fun. They serve as a time capsule of my adult life, allowing me to see how much the trees we’ve planted have grown, revisit recipes I had forgotten, and remember some of my favorite finds online.

I appreciate y’all who have listened me to prattle on for all these years.

xoxo, Stacey 💌

WIP Wednesday: Spooky Kitties

September 28, 2022October 31, 2022Leave a comment

Halloween Cat Bunting spans about seven feet... perfect for our built-in book shelves. — *Halloween Cat Bunting spans about seven feet… purrfect for our built-in book shelves.*

These past two days have felt like an entire week. Fall is such a busy time for magazine publishing as issues are crammed with booze, holiday, and winter travel advertising. I am busy printing, knitting, and bookbinding for Luna Market and other fall and holiday maker markets while my work days have become increasingly busy.

*Nine hand-printed Halloween Cat heads are strung on seven feet of black hemp twine. Drawn and carved by hand.*

Yesterday was a particularly problem-solving kind of day. I carved this block on Sunday knowing I would come home to a quiet house last night to print, trim, and string this Halloween Cat bunting was just what I needed. Sometimes a little project just for fun is the balm I need to soothe my overworked brain.

This project has me in the mood to watch some witchy movies this weekend.

October is just around the corner and that means lots of celebrations at Chez Vee*.

* Chez Vee (for Van Landingham) is what I’ve named our charming red cottage style home.

Watching and Knitting: Bad Sisters

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022Leave a comment

Bad Sisters

Sharon Horgan’s dark comedy has the same fierceness as Pulling and Catastrophe, both co-created by Horgan. Her talent for creating and writing comedy roles for women is unrivaled.

Bad Sisters is about the five Garvey sisters and begins with the death of one of their husbands, whom the other four sisters refer to as “The Prick”. The opening credits with PJ Harvey singing Leonard Cohen’s Who by Fire is inspired. The soundtrack is amazingly eclectic with tunes from The Pogues (it is Irish after all), Fiona Apple, and Stringbean. Apple TV+ Watch the trailer

The Durrells in Corfu

I watched this on a recommendation and it’s surprisingly funny. The series is based on a true story and series of novels by the youngest Durrell about their widowed mother transplanting them from England to the island of Corfu. The sister Margo has quickly become my favorite Durrell. PBS and Amazon Prime Watch the trailer

Current WIPS

Crocheting a lovely shell stitch scarf with this beautiful Louisa Harding Giardino in Rosabella. I made a granny square throw with this yarn and think this scarf should use up the 3 remaining balls. IMHO this yarn looks better crocheted than knit.

I’m still deciding whether I want to knit more wooly garlands to have enough to sell this holiday season. They sold well last year, almost too well… which leads me to believe I was charging too little. I may just knit fewer and limit them to a couple holiday markets… though pretty sure I sold out in 2 hours at Luna Market.