happy valentine’s day!

Posted on February 14, 2010 - Filed Under kiddo life, making things | 1 Comment

Someone set off a Valentine Bomb on our dining table!
  
We’d clean it up, but we’re too busy eating chocolate hearts. Maybe later.

ghosts of tiny sweaters past

Posted on February 27, 2009 - Filed Under making things | Leave a Comment

I’ve been clearing things out. And now that Sophie is five, I’m having to face that she is no longer my little baby. Sob! So, imagine my nostalgia when I ran across a box of the tiny sweaters I knitted when I was pregnant with her! I mean, when I was REALLY pregnant, so pregnant [...]

cool felt picture fun for kiddos

Posted on February 19, 2009 - Filed Under making things | 1 Comment

Kids dig crafts. Want to hear that engrossed silence of kids making stuff? Here’s a quick and dirty project:
Get a stack of felt squares from a craft store and a bunch of scissors. Designate a few of the felts ‘backgrounds.’ You might be able to get a few stiff pieces for this. Set the kids [...]

knitted purple furry monster felted ipod bag

Posted on February 14, 2009 - Filed Under making things | Leave a Comment

Okay, it’s really more of a purse that can also carry an ipod. But it’s more than that, too. It’s the bag I’m making instead of getting an expensive, spiffy, 2nd gen ipod touch. Like those periodic episodes in a woman’s life when a rush to have a baby (hormonal?) becomes oddly intense…and instead she [...]

crafts for karma

Posted on September 25, 2008 - Filed Under kiddo life, making things | 2 Comments

Few things can teach patience–and I mean ‘teach’ in a Navy Seals Training Course kind of way–as doing a craft with a four year old and an almost three year old. Somehow (how do these things happen?) we acquired a Klutz book on making beaded bobby-pins and Sophie and I have been nose to the [...]