Category: Craftiness

Fashion Recycling Week: Kick-off party (of sorts)

Weekend naptimes are usually my sewing times, and I value those hours more than you can imagine!  After working Monday through Friday (in my home office, yes, but still working) and spending every other minute wrangling my sweet-but-screamy two-year-old and three-year-old, the idea of… Continue Reading “Fashion Recycling Week: Kick-off party (of sorts)”

Transforming the cupcake nursery to a toddler room (by creating a very girly gallery wall)

Little C’s cupcake nursery was kind of my favourite room in the house for a long time. It was soft and pretty and pink and white, and had little touches of glitter. It served her well for the first almost-two years of her life,… Continue Reading “Transforming the cupcake nursery to a toddler room (by creating a very girly gallery wall)”

Sew your own Frozen costumes for $10 each

We are certainly a Frozen-obsessed household. If you have yet to see Frozen, I can bet that you either do not have small children, OR you do have small children but they are too young/fidgety/easily-frightened-by-movie-deaths and that’s why you haven’t seen it. (FYI the… Continue Reading “Sew your own Frozen costumes for $10 each”

The two-year mirror

View the full tutorial here ********* Many, many years ago — well, two years ago — we moved into our House of Dreams and began traipsing to every home improvement store in the land.  During one of our many outings for paint, brushes, and… Continue Reading “The two-year mirror”

Shift / Shifting / Shifted

I think the hardest part of being a grown-up — for me, at least — is that no matter how much I organize and categorize my life, it’s always shifting. I love order and routine and knowing exactly what’s going to come next. A… Continue Reading “Shift / Shifting / Shifted”