With the advent of spring, my crafting focus always turns to fun Easter crafts. These sweet felt bunny pants treat bags will delight children of all ages, and they are a quick and easy sewing project, even for beginners. Let me show you how it’s done! I always have my eyes peeled for crafting inspiration….
Happy spring
Wow – the first day of spring! And yet, we’re set for winter’s last gasp tomorrow here in central Arkansas. I hope this will be our final cold snap for a good long while! It has been a truly marvelous day. We had a leisurely morning, picked up our food club goodies, bought the rest…
English Tea (Coffee) Scones
There are few things as superb with a cup of coffee as a lovely scone, warm and fresh from the oven. Why not whip up some of these to enjoy tomorrow morning? I adore this recipe for scones from the Better Homes and Gardens New Baking Book. In fact, this is one of the rare gems in my cooking and…
It all matters.
All of it. The diapers. The trips to the potty. (Oh, the never-ending trips to the potty…) The nights of interrupted sleep. The patience mustered while dealing with three fussy children at Target. It is all worth it. I was struggling today. Really struggling. We were out of diapers. And toilet paper. You know the…
Using Inkscape to easily create SVG files
Before we get started today, it might be a good idea to take a refresher and read yesterday’s post about how to use your Photoshop Elements software to transform a humdrum photo into a snazzy silhouette. Today I’m going to show you how to kick things up a notch by cutting out the same silhouettes…
Creating digital silhouettes with Photoshop Elements
Good Monday morning! I am really, truly excited about the tutorial I have to share with y’all this morning! I have shared recently (see my posts here and here) that I have developed a new decorating fetish: silhouettes. It seems lately these little beauties are popping up just about everywhere, and for good reason. They…
Whew. For some reason, this week was an absolute blur. It’s not like I’ve had too terribly much more to get done than is par for the course around here, but it has seemed like I have struggled to keep all of the balls in the air that I am usually so adept at juggling….
Am I meeting myself coming…? Or going?
Whew. For some reason, this week was an absolute blur. It’s not like I’ve had too terribly much more to get done than is par for the course around here, but it has seemed like I have struggled to keep all of the balls in the air that I am usually so adept at juggling….
Using your Cricut to cut fabric
A couple of y’all have asked me lately how I made the little t-shirt to go with Charlotte’s Pebbles Skirt (don’t forget to check out the free tutorial I posted for the skirt earlier this week!). This was actually my first time using my Cricut to cut fabric, and I was so excited with how…
Some ingredient know-how: leeks
So, I will admit something this morning that y’all will probably think qualifies me for immediate crazy status: I always get a real kick in the grocery check-out lane out of buying something that elicits the question of “What is this again?” from the checker. I think it is fun – exhilarating, really – to…