Spread Easter cheer for your crafty kid with these Easter basket ideas. Affiliate links provided for your convenience. It’s great to use holidays to encourage creativity in your kids, and anything that fills up the basket without being candy can only be a good thing, so I thought I would share some easy Easter basket […]
Turn a Junk Mail Collage into Fun Spring Decorations #junkplay
I’m back with another post in the 60 Day #junkplay Challenge. This time around we’re looking at fun things to do with junk mail. This is one of those projects that could go a million different ways and once you start playing with it you’re sure to develop different ideas for what you want to […]
Make Word Art with Scrapbook Paper and Paint
Every year for the past few years I have picked a word that’s supposed to help guide me thinking and focus through the year. Simplify has proved to be harder than I thought (ha!) because I needed to start with simplifying my schedule and I seem to just be adding things instead. But one word […]
Sew a Paper Shamrock Garland for St. Patrick’s Day
Sometimes I know exactly what I want to do when an Iron Craft challenge is announced, and sometimes it takes me almost to the last minute to figure out what I want to do. This week’s theme was green, of course, and I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do. Knit something green? I’ve already […]
Tips for Spring Gardening with Kids — And Keeping it Clean
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PurellWipes #CollectiveBias It’s almost officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and I know I’m not the only one who is ready for the world to come to life again. One of the things we love to do as […]
Support Your “Local” Author {Preorder My Book from Me}
I’ve not been talking a lot about it, but I have a new book coming out April 1. It’s called Colorwork Knitting, and it features five different color knitting techniques — using self-striping yarn, making your own stripes, slip-stitch knitting, stranded knitting and intarsia — on five different kinds of projects: scarves, hats, mitts or […]
5 Things You Can Do to Make Sponsored Post Clients Love You
There’s been a lot of talk lately in my little corner of the blogging world about professionalism and being a writer versus being a blogger versus being more of a reporter or writing for the web from a news perspective. While it’s certainly fine to give yourself any of these labels — or storyteller, family […]