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, […]
Another Living Room Project…and a Decorating Philosophy
Yep. I made a bookpage wreath. Two, actually. The first one was inspired by this picture, which I’m a little embarrassed to admit out loud because mine looks nothing like that one now. In fact, mine was such a hot mess in the middle, I had to add a few book page roses to cover it up. For […]
Button Bird Wall Art
I’ve been taking a little break from my living room makeover. I haven’t really changed anything in there this week, but I’ve been looking online at ideas and collecting a few things that I plan to use in the room. I had this lovely white picture frame the kids gave me for Christmas a while ago, […]
A Valentine Hair Clip
So we took a break from the painting frenzy going on around here to make a little Valentine hair clip. We’re all very excited because our two-and-a-half-year-old girl finally has enough hair to put in one of these clips. Sort of. Super-simple craft! Here we go:I began by lining an alligator clip with ribbon. Then I took one […]
A Felt Flower Shirt
If you follow me on Pinterest (and I’d love it if you did), you may have noticed that I went on a bit of a felt bender about a week ago. Felt might be my new favorite craft medium. It seems to me the most important skill in working with felt is cutting with scissors. I can do […]
A Cheerful, Easy Felt Garland
I’m in a funk. A post-Christmas funk. Brought on by the feeling that the whole season flew by much too quickly. And we didn’t do half the things I had planned. And, more likely, because I’ve had too many cookies and not enough fresh air and exercise so I’m sluggish and grumpy. So the exercise […]
Christmas Knitting
OK, now that Christmas is over, I can finally show you a project I was knitting. For my sister. Who, if I had told you all about it ahead of time, would probably have assured me she wouldn’t peek…and then would have cheated. It’s a cowl. I actually went into the yarn store planning to make […]
A Knit Dress
One of the advantages of a holiday road trip…even, say, a road trip during which the car transmission dies five hours from home even though said transmission is only two years old and the car begins smoking while driving down the road and you are forced to complete your trip in this: is that there is plenty […]
{Baby Stuff} Day 27: Embroidered Baby T
I can’t decide if being the fourth child is an advantage or not. On the one hand, she’s got way more toys and clothes at her disposal than if she’d been first. But they’re mostly hand-me-downs and few things she gets are brand-new. I think maybe that’s why I feel the need to make things […]
Snowflake Blanket Knitting Pattern
So I think only my fellow knitters understand the joy and the pain of friends having babies. Because babies are cute and we want to knit them all the stuff and yet there’s so little time and so many babies that our collective fingers will all fall off at some point. You get me, right? I […]
