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Make These Autumn Suncatchers With Kids This Fall

August 22, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

I don’t want to brag or anything, but we’re about a week or so away from this: I love this time of year. I never get tired of watching the leaves turn all these different colors. And the aspens! They’re my favorite. This time of year is also so much fun with kids. We read […]

Filed Under: crafting, Kids’ activities, seasonal Tagged With: autumn, fall, kid, kids, kids activities, kids and nature, kids play

A Fun Way to Display Kids Artwork

August 17, 2018 By Laura 1 Comment

So with school starting up again, we’re faced with the never-ending dilemma. What on earth do we do with all the projects and papers they bring home? How do you decide which of your kids’ projects to keep? I tend to favor the ones where I can see my kids’ creativity. Some projects come home […]

Filed Under: crafting, Kids’ activities Tagged With: back to school, craft, kid, kids, kids activities

Make these campfire Girl Scout swaps for your next event

May 29, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

The danger of doing anything with older kids is that you’re automatically volunteered to do the same things with their younger siblings. It is for this reason that I find myself the leader of both my older daughter’s Cadette Girl Scout troop, and my younger daughter’s Daisy troop. I don’t mind, actually. I find it’s […]

Filed Under: crafting, Kids’ activities Tagged With: girl scouts, scouting

Knitting Journals to Keep Track of All Your Projects

May 14, 2018 By Laura 9 Comments

About a year ago, I started keeping a reading journal. I’m in a book club, and I like talking about books with my mom and my friends and I found myself quite often saying things like “I just read this great book. I remember thinking you would really like it. It’s about this woman who…” […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: knit, knitting

How to Work a Long Tail Cast On (Continental Cast On)

May 9, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

I share a lot of knitting patterns here. Baby blanket knitting patterns are one of my favorite things because 1) babies are adorable and anything and everything made for babies to use or wear is pretty much adorable and 2) you don’t have to measure blankets. You don’t really even have to worry about the […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: knit, knitting

7 More Enchanting Books For Knitters

April 28, 2018 By Laura 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I shared a list of 6 enchanting novels about knitting. I had a lot of fun putting that list together, and I found a few new series to follow. My summer reading list is filling up already! But once I shared it, something even better happened. People started chiming in with their […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: books, knit, read, reading list

11 Beautiful Lacy Baby Blanket Knitting Patterns

April 7, 2018 By Laura 4 Comments

Earlier this week, I asked a question in our newsletter (do you get the newsletter? You can sign up to get it at the bottom of this post or over to the right there ->) After spending a week in Hawaii, I was wondering – what do people in warmer climates knit? It’s currently snowing […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: knit, knitting, knitting pattern

Make this easy knitting pattern – Mock Cable Baby Blanket

March 21, 2018 By Laura 7 Comments

I love the look of cable knits. They make such gorgeous hats and sweaters. I think cable knitting scares a lot of people, but it’s one of those things you just have to sit down and…do…and you realize after you try it once or twice that the concept is really pretty simple. It is not, however, […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: craft, knit, knitting, knitting pattern

Some of My Favorite Knitting Supplies

February 15, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

I’m a sucker for fun knitting supplies. Do you know what I mean? Those knitting supplies that aren’t necessarily essential, but are so cute and so much fun and that just make you happy. Things like cute stitch markers for knitting. Or embroidery scissors shaped like a stork (the scissors are the beak!! Do you […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: knit, knit hat, knitting

12 Ways to Organize the Yarn Stash

January 11, 2018 By Laura 3 Comments

Are you January-ing like I am? Resolving to eat some actual green, leafy things and to get outside and walk or run or something instead of stying huddled up inside where it’s warm? And perhaps even planning to organize your yarn stash? No? Is that going too far? I love to look at ideas for organizing […]

Filed Under: crafting, organizing Tagged With: knit, knitting

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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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