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How to Make Monarch Butterfly Wings

February 8, 2013 By Laura 2 Comments

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, […]

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Another Living Room Project…and a Decorating Philosophy

February 2, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

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 […]

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Button Bird Wall Art

January 31, 2013 By Laura Leave a Comment

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, […]

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A Valentine Hair Clip

January 27, 2013 By Laura Leave a Comment

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 […]

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A Felt Flower Shirt

January 14, 2013 By Laura 3 Comments

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 […]

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A Cheerful, Easy Felt Garland

January 9, 2013 By Laura 1 Comment

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 […]

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Christmas Knitting

December 27, 2012 By Laura 1 Comment

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 […]

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A Knit Dress

December 7, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

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 […]

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{Baby Stuff} Day 27: Embroidered Baby T

October 28, 2012 By Laura Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Snowflake Blanket Knitting Pattern

October 12, 2012 By Laura 20 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: 31 Days, crafting Tagged With: knitting, knitting pattern

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Welcome! I'm Laura -- a mom of four kids aged thirteen and under. I run occasionally and love really bad puns.

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