Disclosure: I’m a member of Petit Jean’s Blue Diamond Club, which means they send me meat and other goodies and I write about it. I told everyone last week that I’ve finally hit the blogging big time because I got paid in meat. All opinions are my own, of course. May is a pretty darn crazy time in my family. ... Read More »
You’d think I’d learn. I’ve been taking part in an every-other-week crafting challenge all year now, and I still end up procrastinating and trying to make the whole thing on the day before (or the day) it’s due. So that means today, on what felt like not enough sleep after a whirlwind knitting weekend (which I will share more about ... Read More »
The trouble with being the child of a crafter is that she (the crafter) often has her own agenda, a running list — real or just in her head — of things that need to be made. So when you come to her with a specific request it doesn’t always get fulfilled quickly. Or ever, honestly (never did get my ... Read More »
If football is truly a season in the south — which it is — the solstice must be spring football scrimmage day. Here in Fayetteville we do it up big, with a day full of family friendly activities known as RazorFest. This day of activities, food and fun culminates in the Red-White game (I read red won, for whatever that’s ... Read More »
This week’s Iron Craft challenge had to do with toys, either making a toy or making something with toys. I had actually started this project a while ago but the Bit declared it unfinished and I pulled it back out for this purpose. These are little peg people with matching cups, painted in the colors of the rainbow. They’re for ... Read More »
As soon as the first hint of warmth hits the air, I want to start decluttering and spring cleaning. But I have a three year old, and she’s not about to let me take a whole weekend, or even a whole afternoon, to do all the things I’d like to do to bring a little more sparkle to the house. ... Read More »
Last spring my girl was home sick for a day, and I decided it would be fun to keep track of all the things we did that day just to document how high energy even a sick toddler could be. It gave me fodder for weeks of blog posts, and was a big part of the list I compiled as ... Read More »
The prompt for this week’s Iron Craft was green, meaning either the color green or somehow recycling/reusing something. I knew just what I wanted to do. I have a big piece of green felt leftover from the Bit’s felt Christmas tree that I wanted to make into a felt board. It happened that the felt was just about the perfect ... Read More »
Husband is out of town this week, so I’ve been trying to have something special set up for the Bit after school each day to get out of our routine a little bit and make it special instead of sad. The Seuss stuff was one of these. And the next day I tried a playdough invitation on the theme of ... Read More »
We read a lot of books in this house, but Dr. Seuss has always been a favorite. The Bit read her board book copy of The Foot Book so much the cover fell off (there might have been some ripping involved, but still, it was well-loved). There’s a Wocket in My Pocket was one of her bedtime books for a ... Read More »
The Bit has been interested in my knitting for a long time, and she likes to pretend to knit, which usually involves hitting the knitting needles together or hitting them on things. But sometimes she really gets into the illusion, like she did over the weekend. We were hanging out upstairs together, and I had gone downstairs to take care ... Read More »
Challenge number three for Iron Craft at Just Crafty Enough was hearts and flowers. I’ve done plenty of things with hearts this year, but I still had a few ideas floating around, and one of them was to make a simple skirt with some sort of heart on it. I knew I wanted to make a simple fleece skirt with ... Read More »
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