Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
I’m not sure exactly what made me do it. I think Bj and I were looking at a swimsuit and he asked me if I could make one for Tuesday. Hmm. I had pinned a tutorial a while ago, maybe I could! Never mind that I’d never used a double needle and had no clue …
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Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.
I bought a little wooden dollhouse for Tuesday at Tuesday Morning (fitting, no?) a while ago. Like the end of last summer. Even though Tuesday was over the moon when she saw it I just had to dress it up a bit. It was a pretty awesome deal for $20. Minus one little thing: The …
I know I’ve mentioned re-doing our dining room table before. In that post I was talking about possibly painting the top of the table a chalkboard black. I think I’m set now on NOT doing that. I’m thinking white top, black base. The reason I want to figure it out is because we finally got …
It was time for another crew girl shower. We love to celebrate! And that doesn’t just mean first babies 🙂 So to welcome Karen’s baby boy (she had twin girls three years ago) I whipped up this fast and easy ribbon blanket. Even though I made a tutorial on this for Ribbon Jar a while …
I have mentioned this again and again, the way I go into spurts of different crafting/hobby obsessions. Right now I’m in full on sewing mode. I even made Tuesday a swimsuit! I mean it turned out horrible and totally showed her nipples so there is no way she can wear it, but come on! So …
Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.
Oh this quilt. Oh those triangles. I’m not going to lie, this quilt has just been a pain in ass since I started it. Seriously. I can’t find any post about when I started it (because I still need to go back and organize 2005-2009), but I did find this one about pre-washing all my …
Anyone want to finish that line? 🙂 I had my mom hold up a newly completed quilt, but I need a little bit taller someone to try again because I couldn’t quite get the whole thing just right. And since I started this thing untold many years ago I figure I should take some proper …
This weekend we met up with a friend of mine so I could snap a couple of pictures of her boys and give her some pointers along the way. She worked my camera for the first time ( D300 with a my zoom lens ( 24-70 2.8, a heavy combo, but she did great. I …