If there’s one thing I love more than a new project, it’s a new project with the Minister for Shenanigans coming along for the ride. We’ve been doing the remote friendship thing, and long distance craft dates, since before covid made zoom cool. Connection + accountability + creativity = my favourite kind of projects. Over the last fourteen years, we’ve […]
Around here, we are knee deep in birthday season. Two birthdays down, with another this week, and my creative adventures are pretty much limited to cake decorating and present wrapping, with a smattering of essential sewing for a small girl who is rapidly becoming not so small, and is growing out of her wardrobe almost faster than I can sew […]
A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with my husband, and he said to me – “it’s your first attempt. You do realise you don’t need to be perfect straight up, don’t you?”. I took his comment back to the board, and we laughed for approximately 300 years. It’s kind of cute how even after 17 years he […]
September around here is always full of so much real life, it can feel hard to squeeze in my creative time. I also know, though, it’s the busy times when I feel most in need of even just 5 minutes of stolen time to work on something. Creating is my grounding. a busy month also means it’s more important than […]
I’ve always loved mini books. Even in my project life days, I still loved to pull out an event or a theme, and create a mini book about just that one topic. Holidays and challenges were especially good for the mini book treatment. It’s been a while since I’ve made one, and like any habit that falls away, I forgot […]
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