backgammon

Backgammon is a game I played as a kid and then didn't play for many many moons until this year. My mom gave me an adorable travel set earlier this year that she totally scored on at her local Flea Market, Howard's* for 2 bucks! I can't even begin to say how far that $2 has gone and is going. We play almost everyday and it's so much fun! We one day aspire to figure out and use the doubling cube. Haha!

This game lives on our kitchen table. We play almost everyday. It's so much fun because we are even-steven on skill level and that makes it all a matter of 'luck of the dice'!!

*Howard's Flea Market in Homosassa, Florida is where Mike is from. He was all by himself and that is one of the most precious days of my lives; finding that little guy. What a firey little blessing he is. Talk about a flea market find!

TWIGS.

i've been in a handmade production slump to say the very least this year.
it's not a bad thing as, i've been happily preoccupied with other fun stuff!
but, as my mind came back 'round to wanting to make stuff...i starting
with inspiration from my trip to yellowstone and out west in general.

the first things that spawned from this line of thinking are my felt twigs
with woodgrain sewned onto each one individually. (i sew the woodgraind
freehand with my machine.) and then i stuff them with certified organic
french lavender.

they are rather appealing little twigs!