This post contains affiliate links. If you click on them and buy something I’ll get a little kickback. And I’ll appreciate it! Every now and then I try to get into other crafts besides knitting. I really want to be better at crochet but I’ve never given it the time it needed to develop the […]
Let Go of Expectations with Make Bad Art
I have often said — in my head at least, if not out loud — that I think creativity is the thing that makes people human. We all have a desire to make things, to use or imaginations, to control our worlds in ways that (at least most) animals can’t. Whether being creative means making […]
Ease into Sewing with Never Been Stitched
I like to sew, and have somewhat known my way around a machine for many years. I made clothes in high school (though I never learned how to put in a zipper) and have made some basic things for the girl as well. One of my goals for this year — OK, for every year […]
Making Art with Mix it Up
I usually let the girl choose all the books we bring home from the library, but on a recent trip (in which we brought home 17!) I slipped in a couple I thought she would particularly enjoy. One of these was Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet. Like his previous book, Press Here, it’s an […]
A Book to Get Beyond the Blank Page
One thing that I think can stop people from trying out art journaling is fear of the blank page. It can be hard to come up with ideas or know what to journal about when you’re just getting started, and making that first mark on a page can seem really final. That’s why the other […]
This Kept My Kid Occupied for Ages
Note: I am an affiliate of Melissa and Doug and there are affiliate links in this post. But this actually happened yesterday, and I think this product is awesome. Carry on. It often happens when a gift-giving occasion involving the girl comes around that she gets more gifts than she wants to play with immediately. […]
Craft-a-Doodle Book Review {Creativity Boosts}
Doodling may seem like a fun little thing you do between other things, and it is, but it’s also turned into a legitimate genre of crafting, with people writing whole books about different ways to doddle. I think that’s kind of cool, because it helps those of us who feel we can’t draw get over […]