December 24

Meet Dasher and Dancer, root deer at the ready. Comet and Cupid are on the other side. They will soon be placed in four specific stockings. I saw this on someone’s blog earlier in the week and for the life of me can’t remember who or where. I thought it was pretty cute, though, so [...]

December 23

A present for the girls, to be presented alongside their new Singer sewing machine on Christmas morning. Now then, to clear space for them to set it up in the basement.

December 22

In keeping with all the December crafting photos I’ve been posting this month, I couldn’t help but take a picture of a Christmas ornament I saw on my parent’s tree yesterday. Made by yours truly…in 1988:

Here’s this beautiful creation from the backside:

Craig said it appears I’ve come a long way in 20 years. Boy, aren’t [...]

December 18

Okay, these were fun:

I’m not sure what happened to me this month: very few on the Christmas photos, way too many on the craft ones. Sorry if your eyes have totally rolled to the back of your head this month while I get all the sewing out of my system. It will all come to [...]

December 17

Becky came over today. We’ve met in real life before because we share a mutual friend in Marcie, but we’ve not really interacted much in person. Just on blogs. Today she dropped by with her sweet girls and we traded teacher gifts. I gave her a tea wallet and she gave me this fabtastico travel [...]

December 15

Two down, two to go!

December 14

From the Wordsmith email just today:
Doolally; adjective: irrational, deranged, or insane
As in, “This quilt has ceased to be called the crazy quilt and is now officially the doolally quilt.” In other words, it’s out of control. But I like it that way.
I haven’t worked on it too much since last winter. We had some of [...]

December 13

Renae, I’ve about got your candle request done.

Tea Wallets for Sale!

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December 10

Much of today was spent staring at this screen and writing articles for what you see above. These are my last four weeklies for December, though, because we’re taking the last two weeks off (yay!). I was given two articles for the print mags this month and I stacked those in between tea wallets and [...]

For Everyone I Unintentionally Intimidated This Year, I Have a Holiday Gift For You

Here it is:

Apparently I’m only capable of showing proficiency at one home making skill at a time. At the present moment that would be sewing. Tune in next week to see if I remember how to make the one recipe I have memorized and can usually do in my sleep. Not so tonight.
I hear occasionally [...]

December 5

One plastic chicken from a game of chicken limbo my kids played at a Christmas party today. Would you believe I went to this party bearing ONLY two boxes of peppermint Joe-Joe’s (similar to Oreo’s, but from Trader Joe’s and so much better…)? I didn’t bake one thing, prepare one craft, plan one game, nothing. [...]

Stop the Madness!

I brought this on myself, you know. No idea what I’m talking about? The Tea Wallet mini-business. I took orders for 40 right off my own blog which I thought was decent. I figured if I could get 40 more, I could pay off pretty much everything I spent for Christmas, so I asked my [...]

December 1

Anyone want to guess what these are? And I’m just getting started. If you’ve left me a comment about ordering a tea wallet, I got it and added you to the list; I just forgot to let you know. I’ll be in touch with you soon.
Go here for the rest of the December Photo Project.

Winner!

We have a winner tonight for the tea wallet giveaway! I’m not entirely sure I trust the random number generator, so I chose the highly scientific method of drawing a number out of a pampered chef bowl:

30 is the number, Nancy from Brambleberry Cottage is the winner. Nancy, check your email soon for details!