june at noon

This week’s creative space has a little more variety in it than I’ve seen of late. I’ve got one more baby blanket on the needles. (This is hopefully the last for a while, if my friends would just stop having babies!) There’s a trial-and-error, not-sure-I’m-going-to-go-through-with-this, experiment-type project. And there is, finally, a little experimentation in [...]

With shop updates comes the need for packaging supplies. Since I finally managed to add some things to the shop, I also found myself creating some functional items, like display cards for brooches and envelopes for card sets. I actually enjoy this part of the process. I like being able to be creative in order [...]

A few posts ago I showed you a greeting card made for remembrance and said I’d be back with more to say about it. Well, here I am! A year ago this month, a good friend of my husband’s passed away. Hubby wanted to send a card to his friend’s family to let them know [...]

I’ve been in the card-making business lately. For birthdays: For anniversaries: And for remembrance: More on this last one in another post to come.

Some friends are moving to another state soon, and I wanted to let them know how much we’ve enjoyed them and that they’ll be missed. I put together a card that is very simple, but its simplicity is what I like about it. I used some Asian-inspired stamps that my mom got for me at [...]

You know, I don’t really consider myself a card-maker. I have several friends who make beautiful cards with card stock and pretty papers and ribbons and stamps. And while I can appreciate them, it’s just not “me,” not something I’ve had an interest in. Yet, yesterday I found myself working on more hand made cards, [...]

Here’s another simple embroidered card. It was put together to send along with a baby gift, and since I know my friend received it, I can post it here. From the front I think it looks a little plain since I just used a premade blank card, but when you see it with the scrapbooking [...]

I know I’m a little late with the sentiment, but Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas out there. It’s hard work, all the face-wiping and boo boo-patching and diaper-changing and so on, but it’s the best job in the world. I hope you got some extra kisses and cuddles and enjoyed your day. I’ve [...]

I’ve had this list of projects to finish. I purposely started with the biggest things so that if I got caught up in busy-ness in December I could squeeze in little projects here and there with minimal stress. But a couple weeks ago it started to really bother me that I had a list of [...]