Archive for 2010 January

Lunch-making under the influence

I thought I’d have a little fun tonight, making my own snack packs for the boys’ lunches, using recycled bags I’ve been collecting from my (too) numerous trips to the local bagel shop.  I filled one with cheese crackers, set one aside to fill with popcorn later tonight, and I put cookies in a couple [...]

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Have a heart

Last summer, I was asked to submit a beginner-friendly polymer clay project for the upcoming Craft Hope book. The book will feature pairs of projects and charities, the idea being that you can make the projects and then donate them to the charities. I was honored to be included, and so I set to work [...]

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Let’s talk sugar.

My friend Robin passed this video along.  It’s an hour and a half lecture, which I thought at first would be too long to sit through, but it really sucks you in.  Listen to it in the background while you fold laundry, eat your lunch, or whatever mindless tasks you have to do today, and [...]

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Drowned Rat

It’s not so much that I mind the headlice – sure all of the laundering, freezing, scorching, treatment-giving, and nit-picking etc. is a royal pain, but I can deal with that. I don’t really even mind driving the kids to their two different schools to have them checked out by their nurses before being allowed [...]

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What’s more fun than a box full of yarn?

Yesterday I opened up a box of Peaches & Creme from Elmore-Pisgah.  Twenty-two little balls of totally affordable cotton worsted, in a plethora of pretty colors.  Now, I don’t know about you, but when I am presented a box full of like objects, my first impulse is to sort them.  So there I sat, on [...]

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