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Hooded Monkey Towel

· categorized in Kids, Sewing Tutorials,

Hooded Monkey Towel When my youngest child was born a friend made me a most brilliant thing. It was a hoodie towel. The grand thing was that it was huge. It was pink with some sweet brown trim. My baby loves it, and my other kids wish they had some. I never did like the …

Throwing Discs

· categorized in Crochet Patterns, Kids,

Last Christmas one of our favorite clever gifts were these crocheted discs that my mom found in a fair trade store. They have tons of fun designs and colors. For my son’s 4 year old birthday this year I decided to try my hand at making some and personalize one for him in his favorite …

Rainbow Elephant

· categorized in Crochet Patterns,

Elephants are well loved around here. My 1 1/2 year old sleeps every night with “Dawdle” her elephant and she gets extremely excited when she sees a picture of one in a book. She makes a most adorable high pitched “Bwawoooo!” sound just like an elephant, that her daddy taught her. I thought it would …

Remade Book Nightstand

· categorized in My Home, Repurposing Tutorials,

So… a while back I made this book nightstand. And then I painted my room white which necessitated de-assembling said item. I quickly realized it would never be the same again and so I set out to do what was most logical. That was, of course, to make it better. I do like it more this …

Skirts from Pants

· categorized in Repurposing Tutorials, Sewing Tutorials,

It turns out that one of my favorite kinds of sewing is tweaking an existing garment to make it function or just better. Why do I love it? Let me count the ways. First, no paying for expensive fabrics or patterns. I get my base pieces from our rejects or thrift stores. Next, I tend …

Homeschooling: Less than Bliss

· categorized in Homeschool, Kids,

On days like this I usually don’t blog. But I’m beginning to rethink that tactic. No one is really all inspiration and glory all the time, so why should it look like it is on my blog? I’m so not anywhere near perfect. So read on for a good dose of reality that might have …

Fashion Fabric Scrap Paper Dolls

· categorized in Kids, Miscellaneous,

When I was a little girl, one of the best toys in my grandparents’ attic were some 2 dimensional fashion dolls. All the girl cousins (and there were many of us!) took our turns carefully sliding different shirts, dresses, skirts, and pants into place on the little dolls. My sister and I also spent hours …

A Bit of Lace Curtains

· categorized in My Home, Sewing Tutorials,

I’m making curtains and roman shades for the entire house! Talk about a job! Our mini blinds just aren’t quite cutting it aesthetically or otherwise. The cats have kind of mangled some of the slats and now they are really sad looking. The first curtains I’ve made are for Drew’s room where we painted stripes last year. …

Happy Fall!

· categorized in Garden, Homeschool,

I love Fall. A lot. I actually get giddy about Fall. Maybe some of it is that the kids are already sleeping in a good 1 hour later than in the summer. Thank you, shorter days! And I cannot lie, I’m done with Summer and the too bright sun. On the first day of Fall, …

Initial Pancakes

· categorized in Food, Kids,

My kids love this tradition that we have developed of a slow weekend day starting with sourdough pancake letters. The recipe I use for pancakes is here but I use 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of yogurt instead of the buttermilk. They are the best pancakes I’ve ever had and uses up my …