Made By Humans
It’s an intimate thing when you bring people in to your traditions. Whether its a first holiday with the family you’ve married into or a special gathering with friends, it’s really delicate to share those personal things that have been with you for years. Which is part of why I really wanted to help my […]
Every year for Christmas I try to craft something for the kids in the girl’s class, because it’s fun and I like the idea that the kids will get at least one handmade thing for the holidays. This year it was a felt play kit that allows them to make and remake a snowman. I […]
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was an opportunity to redo a past challenge if we’d missed one or just wanted to try one again. The only one I know for sure that I’ve skipped is that most recent one, which was about making something for the holidays. I guess I just didn’t have anything finished […]
The other weekend I was working on a project that became the No Sew Fall Leaf Garland, which you can see over at Sugar Bee Crafts. As you might imagine from the name, it involves leaf shapes, and as you might imagine from the title of this post those leaves are felt. I decided to […]
No matter how hard we try to make it less so, the holiday season always seems to end up being stressful, whether because of overloaded schedules, expectations or pressures that everything be Pinterest perfect. With that in mind I wanted to share five gifts that I hope you will try to give yourself this holiday […]
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 […]