Since it is now 2010, you can expect that I’ll make about a million bad jokes 2010 being the “Year We ____.” Those of you who are too young, or not nerdy enough, to know what I’m talking about just go visit Wikipedia. I’m not even going to link to it for you I’m just [...]
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Snow Day!!!!
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old. – Lady Bird Johnson We’re getting snow here in Nebrasaka – the first real snow of winter, though we had a wee bit of snow in October. (I’m sorry, if it doesn’t stick, it doesn’t count). Snow days [...]
Cooking Ahead: The Lazy Persons Dream
I’ve spent a lot of time recently cooking, and banking. One of the things I’ve experimented with is making things ahead. In some cases, I’ve gone whole hog, making extra casseroles and bread and freezing for later. Honestly I wasn’t into the idea at first, because it felt like I was turning into some sort [...]
When life hands you apples…
Last week, my sister in law gave me a bunch of apples – like, a bunch. Usually, I’d find an occaision to make pie with them, but a) I haven’t really been in the mood for pie, b) we aren’t entertaining any time soon (and pie to me says “party!” or “picnic”). It was time [...]
The Crafty/Make-y Bucket List
As I mentioned yesterday, before the baby was born I cobbled together a list of crafty/maker(y) oriented stuff I wanted to start learning after the baby was born and I regained the use of my hands. I found this list the other day, and in the interest of starting to actually use it, I thought [...]
Summer Crafts, Bacon, and a Super Cat
While I’ve been busy with the baby there have been some great posts out and around that have been incredibly inspiring: The Long Thread has some great posts about summer reading crafts – crafts you can do with kids based on books that you read. I can’t wait to do something like this with the [...]
Saturday Yums
Every weekend, I spend a little bit of time just playing online – looking at different things that are interesting, inspiring or cool from a design, crafty, or visual perspective. It gives me a little bit of focus for the week to come, and adds some ideas for things I’d like to try. (Of course, [...]
Sweet Tea Alabama
As I’m getting slower and more sluggish as the baby gets bigger and more obstinate, I’ve found that some of my grand crafting plans have to get scaled back a bit – even though I have the time to sit and knit for four hours a day, I can’t do it thanks to carpal tunnel [...]
We have worms
I’ve seen the Make Magazine post on starting your own worm composting bin make its way around the blogs in my RSS reader, so I wanted to share that we actually have our own worm bin, courtesy of my husband Jason. Our setup is pretty much the same as the one in Make. This was [...]
