I last left off with a half-finished curtain and a nap-in progress. See HERE if you want to see the beginnings… After nap and snacks and some chores, I finished it up. First, I folded over the sides of the curtain fabric and stitched a straight stitch the whole way up, really really close to the edge. […]
I’ve never made curtains before. This is a very exciting project. It’s also a big challenge because I’m trying to pinch pennies and I’ve got to use what I have. A while back, my husband went fabric shopping for me. He knows that I create best when I have a stash at home and don’t […]
I am blessed to have a laundry room. It’s even cooler that it is upstairs, so I don’t have to lug laundry up and down constantly. But… it is in the middle of upstairs. No windows, no sunlight… around a corner and through a door and tada… Blah. Short of painting it hot pink and […]
Last year, we hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house. My parents were able to fly in from the East Coast and some great friends attended as well! I used some Crayola Model Magic and pipe cleaners to make a crayon holder for the kids’ table. I used some old blackout shade fabric/plastic to cover the coffee table […]
We had an awesome baby bath when my little girl was very very little. It was small enough to fit on our master bath’s counter and large enough for her to grow with. Eventually, I would have it beside her brother’s bath and I could tend to them both. It served us well. The stepstool is still […]
When my husband and his sister graduated in Alaska, him with a masters and her with a bachelors, I had the fun opportunity to create and send out invitations and handle the party. For the invitations, I designed the graduation cap and used my cricut to cut them out. A LOT of them!! For the […]
A long time ago… (2007) I was pregnant and working hard to decide on baby names. If you don’t know our story, I didn’t have a successful pregnancy until 2010 and there was a long period of emotional ups and downs in that time. Anyway, I’ve been looking through old posts, trying to reformat some, […]
This one isn’t a brag post of anything that I can claim credit for. I’m sharing one of my hubby’s projects, back from when we lived in Alaska. He bought a Shop-smith (I probably don’t even say that correctly, mind you) and the stand was in pretty rough shape. So… he built a new one. And I’m […]
Okay, this might be my last flashback for the night. The kids are finally asleep and it’s my turn!!! That said, this one is one of my favorite projects that is UNFINISHED!!! I began it in Alaska and between the move and the baby and then the second baby… it just hasn’t been completed. I […]
This is another project from my time in Alaska. The trick I found for spacing out where I wanted letters and designs, was to do the initial drawings on vellum and then hold it over the wood to determine if it would work as I hoped. This was very helpful… along with having very fine […]