Not all the stuff we make comes from string, fabric and paint. There are a lot of things we can make for our kids that come from common household items, a lot of them coming straight out of the kitchen. Because of my recent obession with Pinterest (come on, how do you not get obsessed […]
A Good Start on Finishing
So, it’s Finish it Up Friday, and I had big designs on this day. I had a really awful night (toddler screaming at 4 a.m. kind of awful) so I didn’t have as much energy as I might have liked, but I still got some good work accomplished. Let’s see. Technically last night I finished […]
Finishing It Up
I used to, at the beginning of 2011, have an occasional feature on my knitting site called “Finish it up Friday.” One of my resolutions had been to either finish or frog (that’s knitter-speak for ripping out a project) as many of my on-the-needles projects as possible. It didn’t last very long, but it was […]
Creating with Our Kids
My daughter has access to her crayons and colored pencils (on both floors of our house) all the time, but the paints, markers and stamps I keep in a box in the kitchen for painting time, which seems to be happening lately on Sunday nights, when my sweetie is out of the house and it’s […]
30-Minute Make Do: Simple Toddler Bedding
My daughter has never had a matching set of bedding. I made her crib bumper, and she mostly had plain white or thrift-store-vintage fitted crib sheets, with a couple of random printed ones from Target thrown in. She’s never had flat sheets (well, I guess I did buy one once, but we hardly used it) […]
Halloween Craftiness, Part Two: The Costume
Every year of my daughter’s life I’ve made some part of her costume. The first year she didn’t really have a costume, because she was seven weeks out of the NICU (and eight weeks out of me) so we weren’t exactly leaving the house. But she did have a Halloween-themed onesie, and I had a […]
Halloween Craftiness, Part One: Pumpkins!
Somehow I didn’t manage to get any of our Halloween crafty goodness blogged while it was still before Halloween, so I’m just putting this here for the record and will try to bring it up again next year before the actual holiday in question. (The reason behind the lack of pre-event-blogging is that all of […]