Category: Creative Life

a fun burst of color just in time for the snow… More

Here’s our snowman. So cute! I love making pom poms. It’s so relaxing, like little bonsais.

I made snowman’s poms with the pom-po-nette. Pretty labor intensive but they came out super dense and awesome.

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Leaves from walking O to school and fabric from Quilt Merchant.

I really need to go to a yarn store. It's fall and I have no new yarn.

(Carol and Ellie are you reading? We should meet at that yarn shop that was in St. Charles then moved to Geneva then back to St. Charles.)… More

I started this blog because I was home with my baby, making stuff and wanted to hang out with other makers and chat. The longer I do this blog the more and more I do in "secret", on my own, by myself. I thought the book was going to be super collaborative but instead it was just me doing my part and then handing it off to others to do their parts. I want to go, out of my house, … More

We had a flash back Friday yesterday. A few hours to kick around our old hometown, Oak Park, with just the boy. Such a fun afternoon (thanks Katie!) and we spent a lot of time playing what we miss/what we don't miss about living there. I'll tell you what I realized I miss a ton about living in Oak Park, being able to find a decent greeting card! I went nuts on a card display at the Magic Tree bookshop. … More

no idea what’s inside yet. it was in the cookie cracker aisle so probably something yummy

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Phoebe and I had a little impromptu barrette making party yesterday

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