Made By Humans
This week’s craft challenges are inspired by some materials I bought at the home improvement store probably more than two years ago, if I’m being honest. It’s fun to rediscover supplies you maybe forgot about or just haven’t used in a long time, because it’s like going shopping in your house. You get new things […]
We’ve been having some really great skies lately. Layers of blue upon blue, a bright cobalt in the highest reaches gradually lightening through layers stratified by clouds until the bottom is almost completely white with just a tinge of blue. It’s hard to capture in photography, so I decided to paint the sky. Or at […]
I mentioned the other day when I did my paper punch collage that I was punching a lot of paper to make a project for the kids in the girl’s class to make for Mother’s Day. I did the craft with them on Thursday, and it was so fun and I have a lot of […]
Now that my scrap fabric has been sewn and stitched on, I knew I wanted to do something cool with it, so I decided to make a pillow. I happened to have a 14 inch pillow form already in the house (because my craft stash is like that) but you can make your pillow whatever […]
I’ve been working on lots of little projects that I hope the kids this summer will enjoy, quick and easy things that will also help me use up little odd balls of yarn. I decided to make crochet chain jewelry because the chain is so basic and it’s important to be able to make an […]
Last week I made some fabric out of scraps and told you I would be doing something with it this week. The first thing I did was to embroider a word on the fabric to make it a little more fun. It happened there was a nice solid blue patch that was perfect for this […]
Last month I declared that my goal was to stick to a pretty lengthy morning routine that involved meditation, working out, cleaning and other stuff. And I haven’t done that great of a job. Parts of it are getting done pretty regularly. I clean almost every day, and I’m probably still working out more days […]