What Do You Want to Make Today?
If you didn’t see my post yesterday about this month of creativity boosts, check it out! I love my notebooks. I use them pretty much all the time, for pretty much everything. When I’m writing morning pages or just journaling it’s all mixed in with book reviews, to do lists and blog drafts (yep, I […]
My dietary limitations used to be pretty straightforward. After college I self diagnosed digestive problems to mean I needed to stop eating beef and pork, which I did for many years. Except for the occasional bacon. Because. Bacon. I still never eat beef, it just doesn’t taste good anymore. I am not wild about pork […]
I write about crafts and creativity regularly, but even I sometimes don’t feel that creative. It’s been particularly hard lately getting jazzed creatively with the busyness of fall, the pressure of developing the next book idea and the stress of having a kid who’s been sick on and off for more than a week. I […]
In my career I’ve had a hard time with labels. All the writing I do about crafting and knitting in particular sets me up as a person who is sharing her knowledge. A teacher, if you will. Anyone who Googles knitting, finds my site and looks at the more than 1,500 articles I’ve written and […]
Forget spring cleaning. This year, I’m all about fall cleaning. It doesn’t make much sense to deep clean in the spring, if you think about it. No one spends a lot of time at home (or at least inside) during the summer. But fall cleaning, gearing up for the winter when you’ll be inside all […]
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 […]
As I write this I happen to have a sick little one asleep in her bedroom. I didn’t think it was time for the fall icky season to have started yet, but apparently it is. So it happens to be perfect timing for a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time now […]