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, […]
Pumpkin Carving Made Easy with Pumpkin Masters
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 […]
Yarn-Wrapped Halloween Letters {Iron Craft}
This week’s Iron Craft challenge continued the Halloween theme of the last one, this time asking participants to make something black. I’ve been thinking about actually doing up my mantle in Halloween decor this year, and one of the things I wanted to do was some yarn-wrapped letters, so I figured now was the perfect […]
Mason Jar Lid Pumpkin {Iron Craft Challenge}
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to make something for Halloween, and with the girl being sick I didn’t think I was going to get mine done but it’s so quick and easy it was no problem to do even in the short amount of time I’ve had in my office today. The mason jar […]
Things I Love: UncommonGoods (Plus a Design Contest)
It’s been a long time since I did a Things I Love post, but I wanted to let you in on my gift-giving secret. I love UncommonGoods. If you haven’t seen it, you must go check it out. It’s a website and they also have a catalog (which I happened to get in the mail […]
A Simple, Sweet Father’s Day Gift
I’ve been meaning to blog about one of the things we do for Father’s Day for a couple of years now, which is just evidence that Father’s Day always sneaks up on me. For the past two years, since the Bit was on the verge of being two, I’ve had her paint a little 4×4 […]
A Fleece Skirt with Heart {Iron Craft Challenge}
Challenge number three for Iron Craft at Just Crafty Enough was hearts and flowers. I’ve done plenty of things with hearts this year, but I still had a few ideas floating around, and one of them was to make a simple skirt with some sort of heart on it. I knew I wanted to make […]