On the twelfth day of Christmas, my podcast partner gave to me…. quite possibly one of our coolest projects ever. It all began back in November, when we saw all these amazing advent calendars popping up all over the place. They were all so fabulous, but also niche. What if, went the theory, we DIYed it? What if we made 12 small and easy projects,

The last two years, my word has come to me, almost on its own. This year, not so much. I’ve got a bundle of things I want to work on, and projects to focus on, and no matter what word I played around with, nothing seemed to fit it all. I felt a bit of pressure to come up with something good, since the last

What. A. Year. I didn’t quite know, back in January, exactly how much DIVE would come to mean to me. I took it literally. I found so many opportunities to DIVE into projects and down rabbit holes. Most notably, in 2021, I decided to DIVE into a podcast idea that has existed in some format since April 2019, and took my partner in crafty crime

Happy Christmas Eve, friends! We made it! With all the everything going on, it hasn’t been quite the fun, relaxed lead up I’d planned at the start of the month, but life is like that. We are well and healthy, Christmas is back on track after a negative test for one of the main players of the day, and once the 9am numbers drop, I’m

Twas two days before Christmas, and all through the house…this crafter was laughing at the very lofty ambition to stitch 12 gnomes in 24 days. Possibly, if it was the only thing I had to do. But there have been outfits to sew and biscuits to bake and rocky road to make and kid craft to manage and blog posts to write. There’s been instax

Four sleeps to go, and around here, we are full steam ahead on the Christmas gift crafting train! One of our favourite things to make for various grandparents & great-grandparents, is a baked goodies hamper. Like most of us, they don’t need, or even particularly want, anything, but we still want to give them something. This year, their box of goodies includes mulberry jam (from

How are we at the point of the FINAL Sunday Snippets for the year?? 2020 might have been three centuries long, but 2021 feels like it has been about three minutes long! Saturday Night Craft Along is now in hiatus for the year. The podcast is done and dusted until January. School is out. The days are hot and steamy, the nights not much cooler,

It’s an annual occurance. The tree comes out, the kids go nuts getting it up and decorated, the lights twinkle away, and it’s my turn – the Annual Barefoot Museum of Christmas Crafts gets installed. With that done, I do a walk through to determine how many bare walls and corners remain, and start adding ideas to our Advent activity calendar to fill those bare

What a week. I feel like I start every Sunday post like that lately. Thankfully, it’s the downhill un to Christmas now – this was our final weekend of crazy busy, next weekend we have a chill weekend at home, and then it’s Christmas weekend! I’ve been out photographing a wedding, the rest of the family disappeared to the coast, and then this afternoon we

There’s something quite fabulous, about seeing a long-percolating project come to life. Even better when you rope your crafty offsider into it, and along the way, not only do you create something cool, but it also brings moments both unexpected and magical. I think that’s the best way to sum up our podcasting adventure – unexpected, and magical. An on-a-whim comment in April 2019, add