What Do You Want to Make Today?
Last weekend we had a couple of friends and their kids over for a cookout, which meant we went from a household with one kid to a house full of six, ranging in ages from 6 to 2. Thank goodness we have a big house, and a big backyard with a sandbox and a water […]
Ahh, the Internet: making hard things look easy since the online tutorial was invented. One of the very first things I ever pinned on Pinterest (20 weeks ago!) was this tutorial from A Small Snippet of a dress that’s made with a big piece of fabric and an old tank top. Basically all you do […]
I used to have a website all about freelance writing. It was supposed to allow me to teach what I’d learned about the business of writing, and also to make money. I failed miserably at the second and usually felt like I was shouting into the wilderness, so I shut the site down. But every […]
I have a lot of knitting books (well, and crochet books, and sewing books, and crafting books…). I get books sent to me to review. I buy books. Heck, I even write books. It has added up over the five years I’ve written for About and the many years I’ve been crafty. Don’t believe me? […]
Earlier this year I did an experiment with different playdough recipes I found on Pinterest, trying to find the one that was the ultimate. The first one, made with Jell-o, I loved, but it got moldy after a couple of months. The second one had Kool-Aid, and I liked that one pretty well, but the […]
I am a big fan of Montessori and Waldorf type activities and they way they approach setting up rooms and tasks for kids to deal with. Waldorf is naturally attractive to me because they teach knitting to kids, and both disciplines place an emphasis on having handmade things around the children. Not too long ago […]
In a bit of web browsing serendipity a couple of weeks ago I came across the website Daisy Yellow and the beginning of the Creativity Queue Challenge. As the name implies, it’s a challenge to get people to finish (or start and finish) some things that have been on their creative lists for some time. […]