inspiring a playfully creative life
If you’ve been around here for longer than maybe thirty seconds, you would know that crafty shenanigans are a standard part of my daily life. Many a conversation with my chief enablers starts with “ok someone talk me off the ledge…” only to find myself rapidly over the ledge within minutes. To be fair, though, I am pretty good at leading myself astray when the
The start of a new year brings with it a flurry of new project energy. With the 2 year long 20 Before 2020 challenge at an end, I am ready to DIVE into new 2021 challenge. Over the last couple of weeks, my crafty partner in crime and I were left unsupervised while our head cheerleader was moving interstate and we accidentally sort of kind
Coming in to 2021, it feels all but impossible to decide what the year ahead should look like. Trying to pick my One Little Word, in theory, should’ve been harder than any year in the past. But just as RISE came to me on a whim, and turned out to be the perfect word for 2020, my word for 2021 has been whispering at me
Around here, 2019 sucked pretty epicly. I was thrilled to kick it out the door and usher in 2020. I was ready to RISE. At the end of 2019, I chose the word “RISE” as my One Little Word, ready to shake the dust (and ash) of 2019 off my feet and knock 2020 out of the park. Of course, 2020 had other plans. But
In between all the other things that need to get done this week, it seemed the most excellent time to procrastinate with a bit of non-Christmas crafting. Who wants to get Christmas clothes and masks finished with plenty of time to spare, when there are challenges to finish that could be done at any time? To try and justify my non-priority crafting, I did, at
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when a friend asks “who does X in town?” and I am a person who does X for funsies, that the only possible answer is “meeeeeee”. Like hand-embroidering names on stockings? Yeah, I can totally do that. One of my fellow homeschool mamas had two stockings she wanted names put on. It seemed easy enough, so I figured,
Returning to church after a 6 month plague-enforced pause, there were, quite reasonably, a few changes to make it possible to return safely. One of these changes was that pew bibles were removed, and bibles are now a BYO affair. We’d spent a few months doing home church with friends, where I could bring along handwork and keep my hands busy while we watched online
One of the side benefits of homeschooling, is bonus daddy time. Mr Barefoot is off to work of a morning before the children are up, so lunchtime is often the first time they see him for the day. It’s really lovely for them to have that little slice of time in the middle of the day. Less lovely? The constant “is daddy coming home” questions
As I ran down my list of materials I needed to finish for the “13 Materials” part of my 202020 challenge, I could brainstorm ideas for almost all mediums, but I kept getting stuck on one – glitter. Glitter is a pain to deal with at the best of times, but in a tiny house, the thought made me want to claw my eyeballs out
Another 8 days down, and I am still loving this small format project I fell a bit behind on daily journaling this week, but the small tags make it super easy to catch up. We’ve had a busy week of crafting ornaments and wreaths. Christmas parties and playdates. Slow Saturdays of knitting and crafting. Games galore. And to cap it all off, a roadtrip for
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