Friday, December 22nd, 2017
After our new siding last year, Boy decided that the next major project at the house was to replace the roof. He gathered his friends to help (one of them has worked as a roofer before) and his dad supervised the bigger project. Unfortunately, they planned it to be...
Thursday, November 30th, 2017
You may recall I purchased an amazing light table from Monoprice a while back. I’ve been keeping it in the original box for safe storage, but it is much larger than required so over the last two evenings, I made a giganto pouch for it! Voila, the monoprice...
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
Back in April, I came across a beginner’s workshop for drawing and painting birds to be hosted at the Indiana Dunes State Park Nature Center. At only 5$ a ticket for a four-hour workshop, I couldn’t resist and I purchased two extra for my MIL and SIL. I...
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
Boy and I use to go to Barnes and Nobel a lot. And then they left. We never had mom & pop book stores and now no decent chains, either. Oh, Amazon, why must we love/hate you? But then one day, driving in the next county over, we found one and popped in for old...
Sunday, October 15th, 2017
One of the things I did this summer was work down at the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, as I mentioned before. It was a blast on so many levels, and I just realized that I did help craft something amazingly huge! Two things, actually: bent-pole structures!...
Sunday, October 8th, 2017
You might recall that I signed up for two Craftsy courses earlier this year. Today, I present to you my first finished project, from Embroidering Texture and Dimension from Sue Spargo which is a lesson in textured embroidery. I ordered her fabric kit but could not...
