Pillows! I made pillows! This is a huge victory, since I haven’t actually sewn stuff before. And my couch was in desperate need of some pillow covers. The ones we had on there had gotten so stained and holey, I took them off and we were decorating with just the pillow forms and hoping people […]

The other day, we had an Internet outage around here. It was mid-day, the weather outside wasn’t great, and we were all looking for something to do. So I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for a long, long time. I learned to thread my sewing machine. Ahahahahaha! Victory! I was so excited, […]

I finally have light in my craft area! I have a tiny corner of the basement all to myself, where I squirrel away all manner of projects, fabric, and other shiny things. But I realized recently that I was having trouble seeing my work. Because of the lack of light, you understand. Not because I’m […]

Before I start, I’ll just address the elephant in the room. Red isn’t an Easter color. But one of my inviolable Rules of Frugality states that I do not buy clothes that can only be worn once. So when I bought the girls’ Christmas dresses, I bought ones that were white with red (Christmas-y) flowers […]

I found some embroidery hoops at the thrift store this weekend and decided to make some hoop art up in here: Thrift store embroidered shawl Button flowers  Quilted fabric Denim and flowers — tutorial is here Thrift store lace curtain Here’s hoping this will motivate me to paint my wall so I can actually hang them […]

I just finished this skirt for my seven-year old. Look at the cabling. Mmmm. Cabling on one side, pocket on the other. The only downside to a brilliant blue skirt is that it wreaked havoc on the lighting. So, um, sorry everything’s yellow and stuff. Honestly. It’s impossible to get these kids to stand still for 15 […]

My living room is inching ever-nearer to being done. Then again, every time I think I’m close, I find more things to do…so I’m guessing I’ll never be done done. One major project that needs to be tackled, though, is the recovering of my couch pillows. Right now, they don’t match and at least two of […]

I have been promising my oldest…my firstborn…my heir…a sweater — for at least three years now. In my defense, I did knit him one last summer. But I screwed up the sizing so badly that it could have fit me. Actually, it did fit me, but it made me look totally fat and was promptly […]

My daughter was in a school play. She instructed me to come up with a costume, but she was very accommodating about it. “It’s called ‘Bugz,’ so I need to be a bug. But my teacher said I can be any kind of bug.” “That might be true for most of the class,” said I, […]