I am so glad that I didn’t set foot in a single large store this Thanksgiving weekend. The thought of being mashed up in a frazzled crowed under fluorescent lights trying to reach things that don’t really have anything special about them? No, thank you. Instead, we spent our last day in West Virginia with [...]
I just wanted to get in a quick, albeit late, “Happy Thanksgiving!” to all of my American pals. For a lot of people today (Black Friday) means lines and crowds and spending lots of money at the mall. Sure it’s fun to do once or twice, but I think that buying handmade and local is [...]
It’s our last day in Williamsburg and we’ll be back on the road to West Virginia in a few hours. Tomorrow will be all about cooking good food, eating good food, hanging out with family, and watching the dog show. (We all have weird family traditions and watching the dog show happens to be ours.) [...]
I really meant to have this post up last night but then, to make a long and boring story short, I sewed a few pieces of my homework (a yoked bodice) incorrectly and had to practice my salty language tear out a bunch of stitches and start again. Saturday, the day before the great sewing [...]
So it probably goes without saying, but I still can’t help saying it anyway, I can not believe November is here already! November means National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo to those in the know. “Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon.” You can find out more about it over here. So far I’m on target [...]
This is a super great recipe because it’s easy-peasy and so very good! You can use pretty much any fruit combination that you’d like, but this time around I used two beautiful Granny Smith apples and a pint of perfect blackberries. Apples and blackberries are so great this time of year. Plus, this could be [...]
Yesterday morning before work, I realized that I hadn’t taken a single photo for my 365 Project in October yet. And we’re already a week into my favorite month! So I looked at the dinning room table that is constantly covered in magazines, muslin and fabric swatches and spotted this ball of beautiful, burnt-orange wool [...]
I love wrapping presents. That might sound funny, but it’s true. For me half the fun of giving a gift is wrapping it up nice and pretty. Lately, my favorite material to use is brown paper, because it is just so useful and because it feels like a blank slate. It can easily be dressed [...]
Last night as I finally submitted my last piece of homework for my construction class (for this week anyway), made hot cocoa and sat down to watch the premier of the second season of Downton Abbey , I promised myself not to get too busy and hurried and miss out on my favorite season of [...]
As promised, here is the second installment of my Renegade Craft Fair day. I found a few perfect gifts this year: a pair of beautiful votives from Julie Dye Craft for my sister, a cute notebook for my sister-in-law and a print (that I’m using as a birthday card) for Joel. I couldn’t resist these [...]
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