Made By Humans
The Iron Craft challenge for this week was white, and I’m not really ready to contemplate snow, but I did have a lot of craft sticks lying around the house so I thought why not make some classic craft stick snowflakes? We actually made several of these — the girl helped — but this is […]
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was in honor of Diwali, otherwise known as the Festival of Lights. And who wouldn’t want to celebrate light right now, at the time when we’re being reminded how precious light and warmth are? I knew I wanted to do something involving a candle, but I didn’t actually want to […]
I’d been worrying about Halloween for a while. After our trip to Tulsa was sent completely off track by a scary inflatable skeleton, I knew it was going to be a tough day. And it was. Somewhat for the reasons I expected, and somewhat for other reasons. But if I’ve learned one thing while being […]
If you’re a geek or have a geek in the house you probably know all about Doctor Who and his faithful TARDIS. If you don’t have a geek in the house, you’ve probably still seen pictures of what looks like a blue telephone booth (it’s actually a time-traveling spaceship that happens to look like a […]
I don’t know how it is where you live, but we’ve already had a cold snap here in Arkansas. And just about the minute the temperature drops below 40 degrees, my skin starts getting dry, itchy and flaky. In a few weeks my hands will be rough and scaly, with little cracks and red spots […]
I’ve been taking part in a Blogtober blogging challenge this week over at The SITS Girls (if you’re a blogger and you don’t know them, you should!) and today is supposed to be a Throwback Thursday post about Halloween. I have an ugly confession to make: I don’t actually have any pictures from my childhood, […]
We’re not really big holiday celebrating people, but we do enjoy decorating for the holidays, particularly since the girl came along. Putting up the Christmas tree is a big event for our little family of three, and pumpkin carving has turned into a holiday tradition we like to share with the grandparents. With that in […]