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makes
bookbinding
film photography
coloring book
classes
kids classes
private lessons
highlights
- cascada spa day
- sandy river and sugarpine drive-in soft serve
- silent reading at leach botanical, turning peel, cornet custard
- developing color film
- breakfast and coffee with friends
little pleasures
- visible health, LMNT salt, and hydroflask shaker bottle
- memoire salted pandan matcha
- real-time reactions from my stepmom as she read through the saint of steel series
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In, This is How You Lose the Time War, The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- Flowers of the Columbia River Gorge zine
looking forward to
- PW bookclub Ocean’s Godori
- PDX Film League meetup at Rose Garden
- Radius Brunch party
- Portland Cello Project x Radiohead
- PAM CUT Cat Video Fest
- Wrapping up the ecoregion course with Mount Adams field day and stay at the Society Hotel Hood River—Bingen
- Bird Days of Summer Celebration & Trivia
upcoming events
nature tours at hoyt arboretum
- Free public tour of the conifer collection: August 24 (with ASL interpretation), September 21
- Free Trees for All public tour (accessible paved trail): October 5
classes
kid & teen sewing (8+ years)
keep in touch
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further reading
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