When you go as ridiculously overboard as I do every Christmas, you can’t do it all in a month. It takes a lot of careful planning. So every year around this time, I make my Christmas cards for the Christmas up ahead. I only came up with this plan a few years ago, but Holy […]
[Continue reading...]Quilt of Hate no more
January 13, 2010
Nearly three years later, I’ve finally finished it. My almost disastrous satin quilt project. All my fears about the unintentional swastika pattern (that isn’t *technically* as swastika pattern because it faces the wrong way, but whatever, try explaining that to every person who walks in your home) has receded into the background now that I’ve […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #2
January 12, 2010
It’s about time I turned my attention to my little garden plot, and it seems to have gotten started without me. I have no idea what this stuff is. After the explosion of poppies and the lettuce bolting, plus the regular bits of clover and other weeds this spot is found of producing, it could […]
[Continue reading...]Partners in Crime
January 12, 2010
When we lost our sweet Lobo last year, it was a major loss for our family. We hadn’t had him that long but he was such a good boy with Atticus we loved him twice as hard. Back in July we bought our newest little Gizmo. We picked a brand new kitten because we knew […]
[Continue reading...]Discovery
January 8, 2010
During our epic eight year battle with infertility, I would regularly make little bargains with God in a last ditch desperate attempt to make things work. “God? If you give me a baby, I’ll stop swearing at other drivers.” “God? If I get a baby I’ll donate all my Christmas presents to Goodwill.” “God? If […]
[Continue reading...]Word of the Year
January 7, 2010
I have wandered far away from my roots in the scrapbooking world. That’s where I’ve spent the most time employed as a crafter, but for a long complicated list of reasons I wound up largely leaving it behind. I’m so woefully out of step I actually had to ask some old scrapbooking friends what the […]
[Continue reading...]2010 Year of Pleasures #1
January 7, 2010
This face. Surprised and proud at what he can do. Looking up at us to witness his big triumph. This little guy is amazing.
[Continue reading...]500th post and year in review
December 31, 2009
I made a whole lot of stuff this year. I didn’t complete all my crafty goals, but I came close enough to feel pretty durn proud of myself. I’ve always had a tendency to overextend myself, I’ve gotten pretty used to it by now. Plus, I made a whole bunch of things that I didn’t […]
[Continue reading...]Snowfall Tree Skirt
December 29, 2009
Before I put Christmas away for good, I thought I’d share one last project I finished off this month that didn’t fit it with all the Woodland tree stuff. Last year’s new tree was my snowfall tree, and like always I put off the tree skirt. I used Amy Butler’s tree skirt pattern and added […]
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