I just love making Christmas crafts! My favorites are quick little projects that can be brought out and enjoyed year after year. It’s an extra special bonus if its something that can be made with children. 🙂 Way back in July (seems…
Today’s What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday finds me reorganizing my organizing. (Read on, it will make perfect sense. *** grin***) You can click on any of the photos to make them bigger, by the way. Once upon a time a while back when…
Today is the first Wednesday in several weeks that does not find the trench coat on my worktable. Instead, it is done and hanging in my closet. In fact, it’s raining today, so I got to wear it, yay! I quickly discovered that…
I finally finished my trench coat, sewed the buttons on during the Patriots game last night. Go Pats! Sadly, the pattern I used, Simplicity 4084, is out of print. It was a freebie from Threads Magazine a few years ago, so some…
This year will be our first holiday season with an empty nest. It’s kind of a happy/sad time for me. Happy because we really are enjoying the peace, quiet and lower electric bills; sad because I miss all the crafty little things I…
Today’s workdesk shows that dratted trench coat buried under what promises to be a much simpler project. It’s McCalls 5970, they call it a “Comfy Blanket,” but YOU know what it is, a snuggie! (It doesn’t get much easier than a blanket…
Since I haven’t been able to work on my lampwork beads for quite some time, I’ve gotten back into a variety of sculpture that doesn’t require torch, kiln or special studio: polymer clay. After having an idea for some fun potential products, I got…
You know, I’ve always been just a bit suspicious of those blue water-erase marking pens. They seem almost too good and too easy to be true, and I wondered about the long-term results. Now I’m thinking I was right to wonder. About…
Perhaps some of you, at one point, have read my About Me page, and have read there that I love to do lampworking. Perhaps you have wondered why I never post any lampwork projects. The sad story is that I haven’t been…
Since I’ve only found the time to sew once in the past week, my workdesk today looks much the same as last Wednesday. (The bound buttonholes are coming along nicely, I’ll show you the results soon.) Instead of boring you with a…
