Building. Warning: This is a long, rambling kind of post. I actually hesitated to write it, but I want a good part of this blog to be about the journey of building my business, so I'm including it anyway. Who...
Two days into 2015 and I’ve had two dreams of houses. In both, I’m a young 20-something single person leaving my mother’s home and striking out on my own. One of my friends told me that having this dream twice...
So my friend Laurie turned me on to One Word. The idea is to choose one word - just one little word - to be your focus for the coming year. (Read her post about the word she chose here.)...
I rarely decorate for New Year's. Like, ever. But this year I thought it would be fun to make a banner to welcome the new year. It was one of those random. "Hey, you know what would be neat..." thoughts...
Remember this? And how I was going to make a pattern? Just finished it! Wow, that took me longer than I had expected. But what was I thinking, it’s December y’all. That’s crazy schedule time! Those two weeks were spent...
**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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
