I hope your Thanksgiving is filled with abundance, friends and/or family, and a warm, comfortable place to settle and rest and marinate in the deliciousness of a life filled with gratitude.
My day isn’t quite like that. Mine is more of the get up and finish making everything, make sure kids and self are presentable, drive [...]
Finally, all finished.
Fabric paint on the soles of the slippers keep little ones from ice-skating around and hopefully prevent some of the falls that inevitably come at their age.
A crochet hook pulls the ribbon through to tie a bow. I went ahead and secured the bow with some needle and thread, hopefully warding off the [...]
Our heating unit has been sporadic at best, so at night we make sure the kids are dressed warmly and snuggled underneath layers of sheet, quilt, comforter and random blankets. This night in particular, I knelt beside our youngest one’s bed. She was too fussy to cradle hold and rock and sing to sleep, so [...]
I don’t know that there specifically is a link to the cleanliness of our house and the well-being of my very soul, but, if personal experience is evidence enough, I have to say this is true.
I posted in my FaceBook profile that I was “waiting for the house to clean itself.” I really wanted it [...]
The booties are quick and easy to knit, to be sure. Even though I knit the second pair to test my technique, I still couldn’t decide when to stop on the right side. Fortunately, when felted, they did pretty much look the same.
Delightfully for me, and thankfully for my dry, sensitive hands, my [...]
Some say that the more you focus on something, the more you make it so. Put out to the Universe that your life is abundantly blessed, and you attract abundance. So, with all the waves being full of talk of the US economic crisis, are we making it worse each time we hear the rising [...]
Actually, the title should say “Much Needed Mommy Me Time.”
Once we become mothers, our identity as an individual woman is lost. Birth is greater than bringing a new life to the world, as huge as that is. Birth also ushers in our motherhood, full force. We agree to be responsible for growing a body [...]
This is my first felting experiment. Truth be told, it is also the first time I’m actually knitting from a pattern. It has been a good experience thus far.
The funny thing is, I still don’t know what I’m doing! I hope that the felting will disguise the fact that one slipper has a “wrong side” [...]
Ten years ago yesterday, my husband and I went to our 37-week check up to find out that we were going to the hospital to be induced due to pre-eclampsia. I was huge and swollen but felt fine. I wouldn’t be going back to class, though. (I was still in college at the time.)
Ten years [...]
Finally, I see where all the fall colors come from. So often each tree changes to its one color, then the leaves drop and become the brown, crunchy mass. This past week, I’ve seen trees in all shades, from blazing orange to fiery red to brilliant gold. Yesterday I even saw one of the most [...]
