It has been an amazing week! Hugh's sister Janet and brother-in-law Tom, gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby named Nate on Saturday:) Hugh and I watched their 3 year old big sister Nora Nu Nu and had total parental immersion! Waking up at 6:30 AM to boot.Also,...

I had never used a gocco before-- so very exciting! Thank you Meredith & Laurel & Farguito:) Come to find out, my friend Christina might lend me her gocco for keeps, along with her George Foreman... how could I be happier?! I made bird onsies!

This is a picture of my dear friend Jessie standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Last night I went over to her home in the Castro. We talked most of the night about how we want to re-harness our strength.Jessie is soon making a new transition to the beautiful...

i finally have a website www.matirose.comthank you hugh, you are my hero:)it feels funny because i have wanted this for sooo long... it's been in the works since october.now i need to update it with all of my new work from school, but at least it's a start! it's great...

i thought i'd share this better version of inspiration savin' that i learned from a classmate, whom i just ran into at yamo thai {my roomates and i used to call it mean thai lady b/c it was formerly owned by this cranky mean woman... who made a mean dish of pad thai}....

while taking pictures of my studio for naive knitting's project(check out studio confidante slide show!), i looked back on my inspiration journals that i started 3 years ago, when i got laid off from my law firm job (the best thing that could have ever happened to...

i don't EVEN know why i'm posting this, perhaps to normalize my little sweet tooth binge? what's up with that? since my healthy dinner {that i actually cooked!} of halibut, asparagus & spinach, i have totally been devouring the weirdest treats. maybe it's because i...

naive knitting inspired me to take pictures of my studio, which is a complete whirlwind of messiness right now! here are selected "confidantes": hand carved minature buoys that my dad made when he was little, art & bird books, doll made by hugh's grandma, 80's finger...

i am so jonesin' for new music! i was about to go out to my studio and can't find a single cd to listen to. all of my music has associations, and i think that means it's time to get some new tunes! does anyone want to swap mixes? we could do it like a postcard...

sometimes in the morning it takes me a while to get my creativity flowing... i like to start with quick lists. Here are 10 things that make me glow. allow me to be self-indulgent and elaborate...**first-- good thoughts to my BFF who is taking a law final today and...