I’m a big fan of making things and building creativity into your daily life, so I bought the book Craft-A-Day: 365 Simple Homemade Projects by Sarah Goldschadt when it popped up in a bundle with something else I was buying on Amazon without looking into it at all. (Speaking of, that’s an Amazon link but […]
Improve Your Photos with A Beautiful Mess
I like to take a lot of photographs of my daughter. Like lots of moms, I want to capture the everyday moments as well as the big occasions, and that’s easier than ever to do because most of us have camera phones and Facebook and Instagram with us all the time. What I’m less good […]
Having a Baby? You Need a Plan
(Disclaimer: I was given this book by my friend, Rachel, who wrote it, in the hope that I would review it. She didn’t ask me to say nice things. I am not now nor do I ever plan on being pregnant again, but I may hand this book off to the next first-time mom I […]
Take Yourself to the Library {Creative Play Date}
I go to the library with the Bit at least once a week. We have a really awesome library with a great children’s section full of computers with educational games (now with touch screens so I don’t have to work the mouse for her, but she’s learning), tons of puzzles and lots and lots of […]
Get Blacklisted for Free Today Only!
There are a lot of amazing, creative people in Northwest Arkansas, and just one of many I’ve gotten the pleasure of meeting in the past year is Lela Davidson. Lela write parenting humor, which has got to be a pretty tough genre to get noticed in because all of our kids give us so much […]
Book Club of One: Getting Trashy with Blacklisted
A couple of weeks ago I decided I needed a break from the near-constant reading of knitting books I’d been doing lately and set out to find something light — maybe even a little trashy — to read. The best I could do was Pride and Prejudice. Damn my fine taste in literature! Luckily, when […]
Book Club of One: Steal Like an Artist
Over the weekend we happened to spend most of the day up at my mother-in-law’s house, including the Bit’s naptime. My sweetie was helping her move furniture around, but I wasn’t, so I fired up the Kindle up on my phone to find something to read. What I settled on was Steal Like an Artist […]