This past week has been a bit of an end of an era for me. The last two years I have had the pleasure of working from home, my commute consis...

...handmade Valentines! They worked soooo hard on these for their classes. The seven year old did the owls and the five year old did the kit...

The day I finally understood how to make a pillowcase using this method was a total revelation to me. It is so easy and it still feels magic...

I got to work yesterday afternoon and finished up the remaining little touches I wanted to do to the 7 year old's room. I finally recov...

While still feeling confident after conquering my first pair of socks, I have decided to start on a project that I have been wanting to make...

( please disregard my goose bumps, it was quite chilly this morning ) I feel as if I have finally made great progress on my knitting journe...

When we first moved into our current house two years ago, my oldest daughter wanted her new room to have a "jungle vibe" to it. I ...

Ok, the day's festivities were great fun and wow can our new president deliver a speech, but I have other very important change to talk ...

Jennifer was all talk at quilt guild last week about getting our "This Is..." weekly meme going again. I had my doubts that she r...

...was not completed by me. And really, my oldest didn't need nearly as much help as I thought she would. We covered the very basic fun...

Wow, it feels so productive to group everything together! I'm really looking forward to 2009 and all the craft/sewing/knitting possibil...

Yesterday we celebrated the last day of Hanukkah and the girls got to open the scarves I made. I think they liked them! They were both impre...

A little peek at why my Christmas was especially merry...

There were some fantastic handmade gifts under the tree this year... here we are all modeling them in a cheesey Christmas morning picture: M...

There's a lot of covert crafting and secret shopping missions going on around here, but we took some time this evening to celebrate th...