I’ve been working on the tree skirt for our Family Traditions tree for years now. Like, lets see…holy cow. Six years. I just counted. It took a few of those years to get the beading finished in between other projects,…
Decorated Bath Towels
Amy Butler’s In Stitches has a really great pattern for embellishing bathroom handtowels with a band of great fabric and a hook to hang it coming out of the bottom. Not content with perfection, I decided to create my own…
Finished!
Phew! All summer long with needles flying, breaking all proper crosstitching procedure by dragging this all over the place with me, including outdoors (Scandalous! The dirt! The mess!), hours and hours of Battlestar Galactica and Burn Notice later, I’ve got…
Halloween Swap Reminder
I’m thinking I’m going to extend the dates on this swap. I’ve been hearing from a lot of you that you’re so in the middle of getting kids back to school that you can’t even consider Halloween yet. So let’s…
Rustle Bag
A couple of months ago I looked over from the computer and saw this: Atti had discovered this plastic bag I use for one of my crosstitch projects and had himself a ball crinkling the plastic and shaking the threads…
Another bracelet
My other clothes might have been storebought, but I couldn’t resist a few more handmade bracelets. I have kind of an obsession with them. The basic premise behind this bracelet was floating around in my head for literally the past…
Clothes for the big talk
I leave tomorrow for the Sunstone symposium I mentioned a few weeks ago, to give some presentations on parenting a child with special needs and teaching teenagers. I’m going to be there with some very well respected experts, so I…
Jumbo Picnic Blanket
Late in the Spring I ventured out to a couple of thrift stores, which I really don’t do very often. They are not known for their treasures around here, a lot of people live off these stores, and California is…
Design Book
I can’t believe I haven’t gotten around to sharing this yet. This is one of those things that’s been in the back of my mind for years now, but I kept thinking that I had to have covered it already.…
Crafting FAIL
Just in case any of you were operating under the delusion that everything I make works out perfect every time….. Styrofoam melts in the oven. Thought you should know.