I don’t know if there’s a better way to engage kids in reading than getting them to laugh. The girl loves all kinds of books, but some of her favorites are the ones that are really funny. The other night before bed she said she “needed to laugh,” which got me thinking about our go-to […]
A Month of #projectsimplify
I’m finding it incredibly hard to believe that January is almost over, but being almost a month into this year’s One Little Word it seemed like time for a check in. My word is simplify (and my hashtag for the year is #projectsimplify, because everything’s more legit if it has a hashtag), and a big […]
How to Buy Gifts for New Parents that Don’t Suck
It seems like we’re going through another baby boom in my world. Several people I know have either just had or are about to have babies, which is wonderful. As a knitter, it’s not too difficult for me to come up with gifts for new little ones. (Heck, I wrote a whole book about knitting […]
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 […]
Two-Color Pom-Pom DIY
I spend a lot of time with yarn, because it’s my job. When the January DIY Challenge from Adventures in Making was announced as being yarn, I was kind of excited but also didn’t know what to do because I didn’t want to just knit something. I didn’t really want to crochet something, either, though […]
Feel Productive with a Daily/Weekly Check In
I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity this week, after writing last week about that fact that there is no such thing as a perfect day in which you’ll get all your work done with focus, skill and ease. That idea of Paige’s that you really need to feel productive even if you’re not doing […]
Knit Apple Cozy {Iron Craft Challenge}
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was all about fruit and flowers. It took me a long time to come up with something I wanted to do, but I finally landed on a knit apple cozy, which could certainly protect an orange, too. It’s a simple little bag that I jazzed up with a stitched on […]