When I spied a Peeps wreath on the internet, I knew just the one who would appreciate it. My BFF Michelle loves Peeps and she happens to be celebrating a birthday this week. I was so excited to make this for her. I used this tutorial and a 14 inch straw wreath form. I needed […]
Monday Bill and I were running errands and it was pretty cold. Before we left, I tossed on my Crown Roast Cowl. After we got home, I noticed that one of my pearl earrings was gone. Instinctively, I touched my ear and the back fell to the floor. I began looking for the earring in […]
Before my mom left, she tucked a Starbucks card in the hand of each of my boys. They immediately started burning a hole in their pockets. Thankfully, her gift coincided with Happy Hour and all the Frappuccino are half off. I can’t begrudge my mom, though, for spoiling the boys. She learned it from her […]
Mason had special guests at his fencing class today. In the beginning, they all lined up and then they began the parries which are bladework maneuvers to practice deflecting and blocking in attacks. Then for the first time since Mason started taking lessons, he actually got to duel with the other students. The crowd looked […]
I had to have a little something to send off the girls for Valentine’s Day so I dug through my red and white scraps and made fast work of this fabric slab. Then I made a free form heart pattern and cut out four to make the petite pillows. I stuffed them with IKEA pillow […]
I’m pretty lucky to have such knit-worthy people in my life and one by one I am trying to warm them up. One of my special sisters celebrated a birthday in October and I chose that as the occasion for this custom order. I asked Mo if she would like something and if so, would […]
My life is full of people who I would like to give handmade gifts to but getting the timing right is often tricky. I don’t usually feel like knitting Christmas gifts in July which is really when I’d have to start if I were going to get them all done promptly. I much prefer to […]
It’s another day of zero in these parts but at least there is promise of a heat wave. Since we are “electronics free” during the week, we have passed the time with audio books, Legos and puzzles. Enter the puzzles that the boys gave me last year. It was high time I got busy. By […]
Every year we give the teachers a box of Trader Joe’s Jo Jos. They are about one of the easiest things to wrap because the boxes are all the same. This year I dressed them up with a pompom using a skein of yarn that I had inherited from a craft project that Walker did […]
Remember the hat that I made for the auction? The family that won it just welcomed a baby boy and they are friends of ours. As a baby gift, I made the baby a hat to the mommy’s specifications. I used a few patterns to make it work based on the yarn weight and I […]