Sometimes it’s hard being a crafty mama. You expect to be able to make lots of cute stuff for any occasion, but then the occasion comes and you don’t have time to perfectly hand craft every last detail. Or really any details. So it was with the girl’s birthday this year. Coming just a week […]
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 […]
10 Things to Love About Arkansas
Have I told you about my Arkansas blogger crush Kyran Pittman? She’s a transplant to Arkansas from Canada, a mom of three boys and a woman with great insight into parenting and life. She also happens to be Miss August over at Arkansas Women Bloggers, and she issued us a challenge to list a particular […]
Loving Where You Are
One day last week, the Bit was having a rough morning. I don’t even remember what was going on; bad mornings tend to all look the same from a distance even though the details are slightly different from day to day. It’s likely we were rushing around, she didn’t want to get dressed or put […]
Getting Out of a Creative Slump: Make Something Easy, with a Twist
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I’m not feeling very creative and what I can do to get through this period of time where I’m not that interested in making things. It’s something we all go through as creative people (if you don’t, you’re probably not stretching yourself enough) so it seems useful […]
Thoughts on a New Book
If you follow me anywhere on social media, you probably already know that my book, Quick & Easy Baby Knits has been released out into the world. (And if you don’t follow me on social media, go click on some of those buttons at the top right, why don’t you?) This came as a bit […]
Gulp.
So, remember how I couldn’t stop talking about being a part of the awesome Listen to Your Mother show back in May? And how I promised I would let you watch the video? Well, the videos are up, and here is mine. I think watching it may have been scarier than actually doing it. I […]