Pirtti

Before we moved, I painstakingly backed up my computer to an external hard drive. I was so worried that during the move, something would happen to my computer and all the photos of my children would be lost. My computer arrived fine and everything on it was safe. Life went on. And then a month or so ago, I turned on my computer and nothing happened. Just a big gray screen. With a little help from Apple, I got it to work again. And then a week later, same thing. I tinkered. I researched. I tried to fix. Finally, after several weeks of not being able to use my computer, I caved and brought my computer to the Mac store for a check up. The Genius I spoke with informed me that my hard drive was toast and everything on it was gone.

So, when you have a few moments today, I highly recommend transferring some of your most precious files to an external hard drive. I’m sure glad I did.

(My computer will be returned to me good as new in a few days. This should mean I will be back to blogging more frequently!)

We are expecting our first out of town guests tomorrow so I have been busy with final details for our guest bedroom. I’m looking forward to showing off San Francisco and looking forward to showing you all what is cooking on my loom. Soon, my friends!

This past week, we welcomed spring into our home with a little celebration. 4 roses from Daddy…

And 4 birthday candles and a cake from Mommy. Our little baby turned 4!

I realize that we have been in San Francisco several weeks now (already?!?) and other than a photo of my loom room, I haven’t really shared any photos of our new house. We are now in the midst of organizing and putting together furniture and I’ll spare you the mess. So here are a few photos of some of my favorite parts of the house that I took the day we took possession of the house. Above is the sunroom which has become the playroom and the place to wave to Daddy as he comes home from work.

The kitchen. Easily 3 or 4 times larger than what we had in NYC. Seriously.

Charming fireplace on the 2nd floor. This must have been an upstairs sitting room. We are currently using it as a walk in closet. The closets in this house are non-existent. Didn’t people have clothes back then? Was everything folded?!?

Sunlight. Lots and lots of sunlight.

Greetings from San Francisco! We have made the journey across the country!

Much to our surprise, we have decided to rent a house. After years of urban living there seemed no point in recreating our NYC life. We found this charming old house that was recently refurbished. It was originally built in the 1920′s, though this photo was supposedly taken in the 30′s. We have all the fun of living in a quirky old house with none of the worries of trying to rehabilitate it. It’s already been done!

So far we are enjoying having extra space. The kids love running around from room to room, climbing up and down stairs and hanging out in the kitchen. We actually baked cookies yesterday! I’ve had galley kitchens for years so cookie baking was often a chore as there was just no room to spread out all the cookie sheets and cooling racks. Cookies for breakfast are the best. I am going to like this new kitchen.

The loom is unpacked and waiting for assembly. I am so excited to get working on my new studio. I’m hoping by early next week we will be settled enough for me to put the loom back together and get back to work. The northern California climate is quite inspiring. Cold, but warmer than NYC!