Cool Spring Fun Summer

"Cool Spring" 

This is a new cuff I finished this weekend for a friend in Florida.  I chose the colors as a combination of Spring in Florida and Spring in Japan: not quite full-blown summer, but a lush, sweet, newly sprouted landscape growing from the cool, sleepy winter.  

Our Valentine's Day was fantastic yesterday!  We ate late breakfast made by my lovely husband (vegan quiche, coffee cake and fruit/sake smoothies) along with a surprise cheesecake delivered to our door by a friend in the Board of Education.  Then we took a long walk in the sunshine (It was the first day in months that I could wear short sleeves.  Amazing!)  We got a new video camera this week so we took a lot of exciting footage of us babbling on and on about the trees and landscape-- just the thing for us to force our relatives to watch in the future (just kidding ;)  Then we ate lunch by the pond near our apartment and started brainstorming for our future business.  We will be opening an ETSY shop this summer called OKNOSLEEPING.  I'll let you know when it's up!  We have tons of ideas about what we will make and post.  We both want to be self-employed and have it be a choice whether we want to work for someone else.  We are also day dreaming about the land we hope to buy in VT this summer.  We're thinking about a big barn and a small cottage/cabin with lots of trees, a field and some water (pond or river) would be perfect.  If you are in Vermont keep your eyes out for something like that for us!  For now we are working on envisioning our shop's aesthetic and enjoying our last few months in Japan.  Time's flying! 

Happy Valentine's Day!!