Monthly Archives: February 2010

My Wordy Valentine.

By Jessica | Published: February 16, 2010
My handmade valentines in past years have often been of the “a picture’s worth a thousand words” variety, with paper cuts or found images.  But this year I decided to let the dictionary speak for me.  This valentine includes definitions of words (like together, pair, gaga, etc.) that evoke the holiday, clipped out of an [...]
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Mulled Claret for Heroes.

By Jessica | Published: February 10, 2010
I am keenly devoted to warm drinks all through the winter, but on unusually blustery days like today—especially when friends come visiting—my ambitions go beyond pots of strongly steeped tea. On such days, I might make up a batch of steamy, citrusy mulled wine. And my favorite recipe for mulled wine comes from The Week-End [...]
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Beehive Inspired Tea Cozy.

By Jessica | Published: February 2, 2010
Beekeepers have a long history of making ingenious homes for their bees. But before the days of moveable frame hives and bee space, beekeepers’ material of choice was often straw coiled and woven to form squat coneshaped baskets. Inspired by these iconic straw bee skeps, I made a beehive teapot cozy that takes its design cues from [...]
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