I love making resolutions and goal lists. So much so that I don’t only do it at the beginning of the year. I tend to rethink my direction in the spring and fall as well, or whenever I’m feeling funky and in need of change. Well, I guess I’m feeling pretty funky and in need […]
Jingle Bells and Pipe Cleaners
In all the thinking about dress up clothes and fun stuff for the Bit to play with that I’ve been doing lately, I’ve had on my list to make her some kind of bracelet involving jingle bells. I have quite the stash of little bells because I wanted a couple to decorate a knit ornament […]
A Super-Quick Gift for Teachers and Beyond
I spent a lot of the day yesterday working on gifts for the lovely people at Anna’s preschool. She has done so well the past few months, and they work so hard, so they deserved some good homemade treats. The purple things are my knit hearts, which are kind of a default thank you gift […]
The Crafty Pantry
Not all the stuff we make comes from string, fabric and paint. There are a lot of things we can make for our kids that come from common household items, a lot of them coming straight out of the kitchen. Because of my recent obession with Pinterest (come on, how do you not get obsessed […]
A Good Start on Finishing
So, it’s Finish it Up Friday, and I had big designs on this day. I had a really awful night (toddler screaming at 4 a.m. kind of awful) so I didn’t have as much energy as I might have liked, but I still got some good work accomplished. Let’s see. Technically last night I finished […]
Finishing It Up
I used to, at the beginning of 2011, have an occasional feature on my knitting site called “Finish it up Friday.” One of my resolutions had been to either finish or frog (that’s knitter-speak for ripping out a project) as many of my on-the-needles projects as possible. It didn’t last very long, but it was […]
Creating with Our Kids
My daughter has access to her crayons and colored pencils (on both floors of our house) all the time, but the paints, markers and stamps I keep in a box in the kitchen for painting time, which seems to be happening lately on Sunday nights, when my sweetie is out of the house and it’s […]