FREE PATTERN - The Crazy Cat Lady Christmas tree

**This post was edited to add the free pattern. Read on for the free pattern download!** It was getting close to Thanksgiving when I started thinking about Christmas decorations. It's hard not to, every store is often piled high with...

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How we do holiday tradition at our house

Last night Liv comes to me and reminds me that it's December 1st and can we get the Advent calendar down. Oh, crap. The Advent calendar! That damn Advent calendar will be the death of me, I swear. 25 little...

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A sneakie peekie of what I'm working on

I've been absent from this blog these past few weeks, mostly with mom and Girl Scout leader stuff. But I've been crafting, too, and I'm dying to show you what I've been working on!  I don't want to give too...

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My day off, her day off

Yesterday my daughter had the day off from school. My grand plans for a mommy-daughter crafty day turned into me doing this: That's Roblox, some sort of computer game my 10-year-old is obsessed with plays with her friends. I have...

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A post 4 months in the making

This post has taken me 4 months to write. It's not because I'm covering a particularly controversial or complex topic, and I'm not sharing a deep dark secret. Or perhaps I am. Here's the deal: After years of blogging about...

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