I finished my knitting project – “Upside-down Daisy” pattern found in Itty Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson. It’s probably been about a year since I last knitted anything, so I was a little bit rusty. I’m not sure if I did something wonky or if it’s just that I was knitting in the round that {…Continue Reading}
 Nope, I didn’t mis-title the post - the cans are for the pumpkin bread! This recipe bakes right in metal coffee cans. My husband saved a bunch of the cans from all-nighters during early grad school thinking he’d hammer them flat and put them on a table for a “coffee table”. He’s got his own creative {…Continue Reading}
Crafter’s Anonymous Club is hosting a  Week of Felt Link Party, so here’s my little felted bag that I want to link up. I made this before I started blogging, and not terribly long after I began knitting. I had knitted an insanely complicated green wool sweater with seed stitch, ribbing, and cables. I turned out really {…Continue Reading}
Day two of framing, and I think I’m in love! Okay, it’s a tad on the obnoxiously tall side, but we got the wall height variance and the neighbors had the opportunity to contest it at that point. C’est la vie, or so they say… Now I think we might need to do some exterior upgrades on {…Continue Reading}
Garbage Picking, Dumpster Diving, D-Mart, Skip-raiding, Trashing, Curbside Salvage… Whatever you call it, I just did it! Thanks to your brave confessions I just mustered the courage to pull my car into some stranger’s driveway, inspect a find and then load it into my car. I feel a little bit of a shopper’s high, but without {…Continue Reading}
Arden thoroughly enjoyed her first foray into the world of trick-or-treating. Aside from a mini-meltdown while donning her costume, she got right into the groove of things. We only went to a couple of neighbors and nearby friends houses, but she quickly figured out how to hold out her little pumpkin bag and then check {…Continue Reading}
I got a lucky shot of Arden sitting on the steps to our side door. Nothing fancy, I was trying to get some cute pictures of her playing in the leaves and she wandered off – silly model leaving the photo shoot!
