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This week’s installment of Thankful Thursdays: I’m thankful for my sister-in-law volunteering to take Wesley for a few hours today. So far, I have scrubbed the toilet, sink, and bathtub; reorganized some of my craft storage boxes; done laundry; and written this blog post. I’m thankful that my mom doesn’t seem to mind when I [...]

This year, Wesley was Calvin (& Hobbes) for Halloween! We dressed him in a red and navy blue striped shirt and dark pants, and spiked his hair. (This was actually much less successful than I had envisioned it, because his hair is so curly! If you gel it, it turns into ringlets that want to [...]

I just found something that I never knew existed but now really, really want: MARTHA STEWART CRAFTING FURNITURE. What a genius idea. Crafting specific furniture! No longer will you have to suffer through making do with crap furniture that doesn’t solve your organizational problems! There are shelves and drawers for all your needs! Martha, I [...]

One of the great things about having a baby is getting to do silly craft projects with them. Behold our family of hand turkeys:

Bunting I love buntings – those cloth banners made from triangles (or half-circles or rectangles). I’ve also seen them called “pennant banners” or just “banners.” They make great nursery or party decorations and are very sweet looking. I’ve been wanting to make one for Wesley for a long time, and finally one weekend I just [...]

Here’s a quick roundup of the craft projects I’ve tackled recently: Harry Potter themed decorations for my birthday (in June) I think my favorite of the HP crafts was my “Weasley is our king” banner. It came out EXACTLY how I envisioned it and fit perfectly over our fake fireplace. I started out with some [...]

On a whim, I decided to make wedding cake toppers this weekend. I’m not sure if we are going to use them or not, since we’re not having a traditional cake (just cupcakes, plus a giant cupcake for us to cut) but if we need them, we’ve got them. I hadn’t poked eyes in them [...]

While browsing my student loan website attempting to make a payment, I came across this little gem: Take a look at that, and then tell me HOW BADLY they want me to navigate back from this page instead of forward. The fact that the “next” button is on the second line may be due to [...]

Let me introduce Bernice the Bunny: How can you resist that adorable face? The fabric I used was a thrift-store find, so I’m not sure what exactly it is, but it appears to be some sort of upholstery-type stuff. It ravels very, very easily. This means that in order to get things to stay together [...]

Just a quick note to say no, I am not dead, and yes, I know I still have a website. I’ve started a post about books I’ve read or bought recently, but I haven’t finished it yet and I wanted to have a block of time to sit down and just write. I went to [...]

What have I been up to recently? Well, I found some cheap fabric at a thrift store on Saturday and began creating a stuffed frog. I didn’t have any stuffing though, so he wasn’t finished until Sunday evening. I started out by drawing a vague frog-ish shape on the back some old wrapping paper (which [...]

Moby – “We Are All Made of Stars” You have probably all seen this already because it has been on my Flickr account for days, but I finished my Fat-Headed Birds embroidery project! I sat down one night and busted the entire thing out. It was part of a larger “clean the living room” project, [...]

Lacrimas Profundere – “My Velvet Little Darkness” My third mitten attempt seemed to come out okay. I overcompensated with the “knitting loosely” a teeny bit, so it is slightly larger than the first (and definitely much larger than the second) but not obscenely so. I’m currently testing out blocking to see if I can stretch [...]

nothing I know. I KNOW! The fun never ends. I posted some photos recently of a mitten I knitted that came out beautifully, after I fixed my initial mistakes. Yesterday I set out to make another, so I could have a pair of mittens. I ended up with this: Yes, two mittens of drastically different [...]

nothing Sometimes I’m sad that I’m not that great at knitting. Case in point: A while back, I started some gray mittens. I did the ribbing for the wrist and then gave up because the instructions started to get detailed and I didn’t have time to sit and work through things like “K 7, M1L, [...]