june at noon

Tomorrow is the Valentine’s Day party at my daughter’s school. I don’t usually do a whole lot for this holiday, but this year I am apparently on a roll! We finished up the crayon cards. I had some pre-cut card stock in pink and red, and we prettied up the edges of some white card [...]

Today’s creativity is brought to you by Crayola (and other assorted, no-brand, off-brand, brought-home-from-the-restaurant, pathetically-waxy crayons). More than two years ago I saw something like this, and I immediately started saving all of our broken and unloved crayons for the day when my daughter was old enough to give Valentines to her classmates. This is [...]

Yesterday found me Amigurumi-ing again. Veggie Tales characters, to be exact. They were much larger than I’d thought they’d be (read: they took all afternoon and evening to crochet), and thanks to a promise that I’d have them finished by morning, I was up late sewing on Larry’s eyeballs. They were met with enthusiasm in [...]

I mentioned on Facebook on Sunday night that I was making a wig out of yarn. Red yarn, to look like the red hair belonging to Jessie of Toy Story fame. Monday afternoon I was still tweaking the attaching-to-the-head process, so I delayed this post until I had some photographic evidence of success. It’s a [...]

I’m a little tired of talking about art. Are you tired of me talking about art? Don’t get me wrong, I love what I’m doing right now. But we could all use a break from hearing about it now and then, am I right? So … Last night I was driving home and wondering what [...]

Today I sat down to do some “real” work. It’s about time I cranked out a new drawing, don’t you think? But somehow I found myself making spur-of-the-moment, wildly wonky superhero costumes instead. I just grabbed piles of felt and some leftover fleece and an old T-shirt, and I started cutting and sewing with abandon. [...]

Monday and Tuesday were perfectly normal days around here, but somehow they just took off without me. I think it’s because I’m in pre-vacation, getting-ready mode. I keep thinking of things I need to pick up or plan ahead, and the list keeps growing—yet, in my usual fashion, I find other, completely unnecessary and unrelated [...]

At some point in 2010 I wrote about a little sweater I made for my daughter, as well as a tiny doll-sized version for “Sally.” Right before Christmas I finally got around to making a similar set for my son. I had a hard time finding a (free) pattern that was just a basic, simple [...]

The birthday party went well, and the mama-made gifts were a hit—phew! In the wee-est hours of the morning of the party (and I mean that very literally), I whipped up a couple of Lumberjack Hats for two little monkeys. (The big sister needs something of her own to open, you know.) They are made [...]

During the times I was not stuffing turkey or sweet potatoes or cherry pie (along with a plenitude of other things) into my mouth this weekend, I did a few quick crochet projects. Ali has been making crocheted slipper socks lately, and I had planned to make some sort of slippers for my kids for [...]