keep it simple valentines

Every year I swear that I am not going to buy the pre-made character cards from the drugstore for my kids to exchange at school, and every year I realize that the school party is the next day and that my plans for home crafted valentines are way too elaborate, or I haven’t shopped for [...]

Playing with water

It’s supposed to snow tonight. This happens approx. .5 times a year in these parts.

We’ve had lots of rain and freezing temps lately, which has made for little delightful discoveries in the mornings of frozen miniature ponds in various unlikely reservoirs around the yard; such as a shovel with leaves trapped under a layer of [...]

The craft that came to be.

I am not to be denied my once yearly pleasure of dusting off my iron and melting wax paper. This is one of those projects that I fell in love with when I did it as a kindergartener, and now that I have kids, I have to do it every year. So a couple [...]

The craft that almost was

I had every intention of doing a Fall craft with leaves last week. One of my favorite things to do every year, is to collect colorful fallen leaves, press them, and then iron and seal them between two sheets of wax paper. We usually make placemats with the finished work to be used for Thanksgiving [...]

See that? —->>>

See that button over there to your right? I submitted our secret clubhouse to The Crafty Crow and Cassi added it today! This just makes me so happy. :~) A big thanks and a big bloggy hug to everyone who dropped in to leave a comment.

I was so inspired by the responses that I received, [...]

Weekend Getaway

Everyone needs a special place to escape to during a three day weekend. Or more importantly, everyone needs a place for children to escape to during a three day weekend. Or even more importantly, everyone needs a place, during a three day weekend, that will occupy the kids so that the parents can escape to [...]

Gotta love it

Gotta love kid art. I love the way my daughter makes things into girls by giving them long eyelashes.

Spinning flowers

Such a happy world, don’t you think? The sun has two hearts under it and is shining love on the flowers.

And in my happy world…

I am finishing up the binding on my son’s quilt!!!

Wishing you all [...]

Impromptu family craft moment

Who knew that a tiresome chore such as dusting could turn into 30 minutes of family crafting fun?

I was busily straightening up the house yesterday to get it looking halfway decent for some friends of ours that we were having over for a Father’s Day cookout, when I decided to give the china cabinet [...]