I just came back from SNAP! and wanted to share with you one of the small projects I made for it. There was a secret sister exchange this year and I LOVE exchanges. I was over the moon when I got Stephanie's name and immediately started work on this unicorn cross stitch. It's hard to tell because of the lighting (I'm sorry I didn't think to snap a picture under better conditions and with my real camera!), but the unicorn is stitched on silver sparkle aida. I painted the hoop white, ... Read More
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Severus Snape Cross Stitch
Ages and ages ago, I bought a Harry Potter cross stitch pattern book in Paris. I didn't realize how special it was until I went to a shop for floss and the clerk tried to buy it from me. It has become one of my favorite books, even though it's just patterns, and I often use it to stitch up gifts for my Harry Potter loving friends. Fun fact: I've never made anything for myself from it (yet!). I stitched up this Severus Snape for my friend Melissa, who loves Harry Potter as much as I ... Read More
Easy Teacher Appreciation Craft
This is the first year I've had a child in real school. Madeline is in kindergarten, and while I've read about other moms and the pressure they feel to come up with awesome teacher appreciation crafts, I didn't believe it until I recently heard a group talking about what they're doing for their kids' teachers at the end of the year. This wasn't a thing when I was a kid. A quick search will bring up hundreds of awesome ideas for teacher appreciation crafts, but I wanted something that was super ... Read More
Matilda’s Nursery
When we closed on this house, I was pregnant but didn't know it yet. We had all sorts of ideas for every room in the house except one. There was a bedroom upstairs that was smallish and, as crazy as it sounds, was just superfluous for our needs at the time. We thought about letting Scott use it as an office or as a hobby room, but it was a case of trying to invent a use for space we didn't need. Of course, once we found out I was pregnant, the perfect use presented itself and it was meant ... Read More
Project Life: Travel Edition
I love Project Life and I know I'm not alone. I've always loved scrapbooking, but found that I was getting more and more overwhelmed with the time and amount of pieces that went into it. I feel like Project Life was designed just for me. It's incredibly simple to use. You don't need to worry about cutting anything to size and can embellish as much or as little as you want. It doesn't take much time at all to put together a lovely layout. Towards the end of my pregnancy with Matilda, I was ... Read More
Crafty Resolutions
I have missed crafting so much at times that I've been in tears. One of my many goals this year is to solidly get back to it. I have more supplies than a store, am surrounded by inspiration and desire, and it's time. As I've been working on the constant unpacking, decluttering, and organizing, I've come across all sorts of things that I've made that I had forgotten about. I honestly haven't done any major crafting since about halfway through my pregnancy with Madeline when the pre-eclampsia hit ... Read More