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Design Wars 3 is about to get Mad!

Are you familiar with Design Wars? It’s a wonderful crochet design challenge hosted by Baca Creations and nowView full post »

Love Handles and Local Plans

It’s just the beginning. I’ve jumped head first and eyes wide open into my familiar old world of polymerView full post »

Falling, again.

Do you ever feel like you are just falling into well and the good and bad is just zipping by you. You may catch aView full post »

My Friend Michelle and her Perfect Knot

About a year ago, I started getting pretty brave about getting to know folks online. I’m just old enough so theView full post »

Handmade x 100

Once in awhile I like to run giveaways that highlight handmade items. Why? Well I feel it’s my mission in life toView full post »

The Joy of Gingerbread (and the Blonde Gingerbread Cookie)

My quest for the perfect gingerbread cookie recipe started decades ago. I tried every recipe in every cookbook I had,View full post »

Santa’s Helper

Every year the Lumberjack and I get to do Santa’s job and we love it. This year, the Boy is seven, I’m notView full post »

Choosing Colors and Making Your Own Sampler or My OCD Ring.

Each card contains the brand, color and weight of yarn. The yarn is just wrapped around and knotted on the back side. NoView full post »

Pattern Design-Fear, Hope & Love

I love cables and texture so this design combines my fear of rejection, my hope of success and my love of cables. I mayView full post »

Mad Market Bag Pattern-Small and Large

Bags, purses, duffels, wallets, backpacks and baskets. I love containers. It’s a strange obsession and I cannotView full post »

To Etsy or Not?

This dilemma is known to so many creative folks. First, we get ‘into’ something. I mean really into it. WeView full post »

Quick Tassels with Yarn

Some things just need an extra, oomph to them. I made a lovely thing, but it lacked something and it took me a bit ofView full post »

Olli Olli Oxen Free! or Childhood Game Garland

I’m not a soft gooey person. I never make that impression on people. I laugh extremely loud, I’m WAYView full post »

I Think I Can, I Think I Can…My Bohemian Purse Project

I, just like every other creative person I know, have dozens, nay, hundreds of ideas stashed in folders, files,View full post »

Crayon Pucks-A Frugal Project for Kids

I’m one of those moms that has a disused wet-wipe box full of forgotten crayon bits. We decided to make a projectView full post »

How to make the Mad Hook Organizers

Many of you have asked for the pattern to this hook organizer and it’s so simple I kept putting it off thinkingView full post »