Between the Advent quilt and the numbered ornaments I made my mom, I ended up with a ton of Christmas fabric scraps. Lucky for me, this was the project my sewing class did at the end of November. So apparently I’m on a little bit of a fabric ornament kick. These take a little longer than the no-sew ones I …
Keeping to the theme of Advent Calendars of All Shapes and Sizes, today I’m sharing a super-creative decoration designed by my mom (with my help). As often happens, she called me several weeks ago and said “I have a great idea.” What this usually means is “I need a 20-page scrapbook by early next week,” or in this case “I …
What I’m about to show you is the best thing ever. No, really. If I had to pick one childhood tradition/memory/object/whatever, it would be this little strip of felt right here. This exact one, in fact. Yeah, I’m cheating a little here and posting a craft that I didn’t do myself. Rather, my mom made this 30-something years ago. The …
YES I KNOW. I’m way way way behind on my weekly layouts. But I’m still doing them! I purposely skipped posting a couple because I liked them so much I decided to submit them to magazines. That means I can’t post them here until after I get rejected. And I’ve skipped posting the rest because…well they’re not finished yet. But …
Today, since getting home from work and running errands, I’ve been trying to get laundry done, bake a pie, clean the kitchen, finish two purses, keep the dog entertained, get the baby to nap, and write a blog post. What can I say? I’m accomplishing some items on the list better than others.
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and Memory Box is one of my favorite stamp and die manufacturers. So you can imagine how excited I was when MLO got their whole Halloween line a couple weeks ago. It’s really too bad people don’t send Halloween cards the way they send Christmas cards, because I would be buying all of …