The girl has never been the best sleeper. She has never slept as long as I would like, and she still has periods where she just can’t or won’t sleep through the night. We’re going through one of those periods right now, and while I’m trying hard to remember that it won’t last forever, it’s […]
#BirthCenterNWA Helps Moms Craft Their Own Birth Stories
This is a sponsored post for Acorn Influence and Birth Center of Northwest Arkansas. All opinions are my own. I had a pretty firm plan of what I wanted to happen when I had the girl. I was OK with a hospital birth because there was no way I was birthing at home and there […]
Support Your “Local” Author {Preorder My Book from Me}
I’ve not been talking a lot about it, but I have a new book coming out April 1. It’s called Colorwork Knitting, and it features five different color knitting techniques — using self-striping yarn, making your own stripes, slip-stitch knitting, stranded knitting and intarsia — on five different kinds of projects: scarves, hats, mitts or […]
How to Buy Gifts for New Parents that Don’t Suck
It seems like we’re going through another baby boom in my world. Several people I know have either just had or are about to have babies, which is wonderful. As a knitter, it’s not too difficult for me to come up with gifts for new little ones. (Heck, I wrote a whole book about knitting […]
My #yearofmaking So Far
I’ve told you about my little word for the year, but I also decided to take on another challenge for 2015: a year of making. Like it sounds, year of making just means that I commit to making something, anything, every day this year, as well as documenting what I’m doing on Instagram. This idea […]
How I Do Morning Pages
When I talk about doing morning pages — which I do kind of a lot — I often get questions about how it’s done and how I work with them. I don’t feel like I quite do it in the same way that Julia Cameron, who introduced morning pages to the world in her book […]
5 Tips for Helping Kids Transition to a New School
As a brand ambassador for Better Beginnings, I have been compensated for this post, but all thoughts are my own. The girl stayed home with me for almost the first two years of her life, and she was a pretty super clingy little one. That could be because she barely ever saw people outside of […]