It’s funny, I have been sewing and baking and crafting my little heart out this last week. After declaring this the year-of-no-handmade-gifts, I sure have been in a gift-making-flurry. My theory is that I don’t feel obligated (and have all of the kids’ gift shopping finished), so I have time on my hands to whip [...]
Yum. There are lots of things to love about the holiday season, but a whole buffet of treats, and especially PIE, ranks at the top of my list (also, leftovers, but you already knew that). Trailing closely behind my love of treats and pie is my love of packaging, making single serve pie slice boxes [...]
Just in case you’re still shopping (or making your own list), I have a sewing book to share with y’all today- Sew Classic Clothes for Girls, by Lindsay Wilkes (of The Cottage Mama). I have several of Lindsay’s patterns (see here and here) and am always impressed by her thorough instructions and professional finishes. This [...]
We are over at Sewing in No Man’s Land, sharing Piper Jane’s dreamy demi tutu today. Come on over and check it out!
Friends, I’m so excited to share today’s post with you. Like, so so so very excited. This little collaboration can be traced back to when Piper asked for makeup for Christmas. Adam and I said no way. She redoubled her niceness efforts and asked for ‘play makeup’ instead. We said we’d think about it. Then [...]
December is nuts around here (for you too?)! No matter how much advance planning I do, or how early start of a start I get, there is always a little bit of December chaos. One of my favorite holiday-simplifiers is having gift cards on hand, just in case (and sometimes as my first choice- at [...]
Once upon a time, long, long ago, I made Jord an ‘everything bag.’ It was made to be a diaper bag and camera bag in one. As the years have progressed, that little (ok, giant) tote wandered its way through two babies and a move across the ocean. Its most recent function is a laptop [...]
Sometime last Spring, Burke and Piper Jane tried homemade marshmallows. As they professed their undying love for this most-fluffy-of-treats, I promised, “Next winter, we’ll try to make our own homemade marshmallows.” And, folks, the Smooches have iron trap memories about this kind of thing. With our recent frigid temperatures, it is now clearly winter (love [...]
Would you believe that almost all of my wrapping is finished already? Amazing what this year’s no-last-minute-gift-crafting has done for our December Crazy Level. And since I have resolved not to buy any new gift wrap this year, our entire stack of gifts (so far) is wrapped in brown kraft paper and dressed up with [...]
To continue the homemade gift goodness, hop on over to Sew Caroline today! We’re over there sharing a {semi} homemade gift- biscuits and honey butter.
