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Blogs

  • Kyoto Foodie: Where and what to eat in Kyoto
    Kyoto Foodie is a blog site dedicated to the culinary culture of Kyoto, Japan.
  • Nico’s Food Adventures
    Experiments in the world of tasty, not-so-tasty and the plain bizarre
  • Off the Cuff Style
    Fashion Design by Pamela Erny.
  • Poor Mojo's Squid
    Visions of the Giant Squid: To Eat a Cat (also, with instructions for knitting a squid hat for your infant)
  • She Just Walks Around With It
    Because booty is only skin deep.
  • shimandsons
    Wife, mother and designer of custom stationery + handmade goods.
  • Sleep is for chelonians
    Tribble-ations of a largely nocturnal, travel-loving postdoc biologist.
  • SouleMama
    Quite possibly the most awe-inspiring woman/mother/wife/artist/crafter on the internet.
  • the blue blog
    Where blue is for knitting!
  • use real butter
    I really admire this woman, and wish I knew how to cook half the things she whips out, in between chemo sessions and skiing at an altitude that would make me dizzy.
  • Vanilla Garlic
    Vanilla Garlic publishes restaurant and cookbook reviews, food histories, essays, original cupcake recipes, and culinary adventures taking place in the truly shibby Sacramento area.

Interests

Here you will find random musings about anything under the sun, but mostly related to: Travel, Traditional Hand-crafts (knitting, spinning, weaving, sewing, dyeing) and links to my favorites, Almost anything Japanese (sushi, kimono, kurei katsu, Heianbo Ryokan, Ishiyaki Issian), Organic Food/Goods, Sustainability and the Carbon Footprint, Gardening, Books (including those written by Li-Young Lee, Tony Bourdain, and others) And, most importantly: Yarn, Food, Coffee, and their related topics.