A Quick Skirt

· categorized in Repurposing Tutorials, Sewing Tutorials,

Yesterday, I was looking for a quick simple project and I found it at the thrift store. This XL shirt was a dollar and is mostly wool. I grabbed it and decided I’d figure out later what to make it into. Well, it made a super comfy casual skirt. For the waistband I used a …

My Easter Story

· categorized in Kids,

We like to tease our children. Sometimes we forget to tell them later that we were teasing. It happens. Yesterday, Drew began to teach Israel about Easter egg hunts. “Mommy and Daddy get plastic eggs that open and they stuff them with candy and hide them for us.” Andrew and I looked at each other …

Pumpkin Sourdough Bread/Muffins

· categorized in Food,

It’s been a week and a half since we’ve been grocery shopping. Sick kids happened. And last night the baby had a fever. And today it poured rain and hail. That meant I was going no where and if I wanted something other than the meager variety of food in the cabinets and fridge I’d …

Square Framed Photos Collage

· categorized in Miscellaneous, My Home,

It warms up my heart to have some of the best of our family moments captured and hung. These frames have hung in many different houses while they were our home. I like to switch up the pictures in some of them. And I like to change how they are arranged. This time I chose …

Randomness

· categorized in Uncategorized,

Randomness… ’cause that’s all I got. Is that cheating somehow? I’m actually crocheting a new thing again. This makes me happy. And means that there will be a pattern of sorts on here again soon. Wanna guess what it is? I’m using up more of this yarn that I up-cycled from a sweater. It’s really …

Sourdough Bread Bowls

· categorized in Food,

My favorite place to eat in the whole world is the St Louis Bread Co. In other places than St Louis, MO (where I lived during my teenage years) this eatery is called Panera Bread. Whatever you call it they make this AWESOME soup in sourdough bread bowls. I could it eat all the time. …

Seedlings

· categorized in Garden,

It was only a week ago that there was just brown dirt here. Now there are bitty strands of the most awesome green. That new life stretches to the light. We may have over seeded slightly… Can I blame chubby 3 year old fingers or 7 year old exuberance? Maybe. But I have to admit …

Books to Table/Nightstand

· categorized in Miscellaneous, My Home, Repurposing Tutorials,

Craigslist was nice to me today. Ok, it was really some random stranger that was nice to me today. Even better! But slightly more awkward. Anyway, I got a lot of free books. Big hardcover books almost all the same size! Perfect! Not to read. To make into furniture. free books In taking apart our …

Flooring… Done!

· categorized in My Home,

Remember the big floor project? Well, I said I’d post our done pictures and so here they are. Though I’m cheating just a tad. The transitions to tile and carpet aren’t quite done. Almost. Soon. So close… Still you’d not know by the pictures. And here they are… Here’s my post about the entry floorboard. …

Seeds

· categorized in Garden, Kids,

I have seeds nestled in the warm moist ground in my garden and in pots and window boxes! Seeds are magical. I feel like I spent the last few days skipping around liberally showering handfuls of seeds into rich soil. I feel like the whole world will soon burst with life and color. The reality …