happy stuff.

i made this for someone who might be coming to live with us in mid-march.

i’ve been waiting to show you my next quilt for a very long time, but i wanted to wait until it was finished.  here’s a sneak peek.  can you guess what kind of quilt it is?  (people who’ve already seen it in real life or who’ve heard me talk about it are exempt from guessing!)

it may not look like much, but this rattle is the first item i’ve ever crocheted with no pattern whatsoever.  i decided on the way home from our kentucky christmas, that i wanted to play around with crochet stitches to better understand how they build upon each other.  i’d learned (from my lovely sister-in-law who [...]

this year for christmas, my sister suggested that her son might enjoy having a play kitchen.  their house is very small, so whatever kitchen he got needed to be very small, compact, and easy to put away or get out to play with.  i sent her a few ideas i’d found online and she showed [...]

one more “look what i got” post and then i promise i’ll post a “look what i made” post!  i just had to show you this awesome fabric that my mom bought me (totally un-requested, but completely loved): it’s the awesome grumpy owl print!  with the green background!  love it!  this looks like the back [...]

the other wonderful prize i won from the sew mama sew giveaway day came all the way from australia, wrapped up (inside the mailer) beautifully.  and inside? this super-cute car wrap from lisa at the princess and the monkey.  i love the fabric pockets at the bottom (stoopid winter light–the background of the fabric is [...]

i was excited this year to be invited to participate in small fox’s first annual ornament swap.  my initial response had been that i was too busy to participate, but after a tiny bit of thought, i realized that i still had some felt ornaments that i’d made two years ago that i’d never gotten [...]

i’m suffering from blogger’s backlog block.  you know–when you’ve got so many things you want to blog about that you don’t know where to start and it just seems so overwhelming that you put it off for just one more day?  well, i’ve got to break through the crust and dive in at some point, [...]