Months and months ago Bear and I worked together one weekend and we finally made a super deluxe kitty scratching post. So super fancy you couldn’t get one this decked out at any price. The kitties adore it, and I…
Herb Garden Markers
The last part of our house left untouched was our backyard. It was seriously rough. Like, we had a jungle threatening to swallow our house. See? We’ve been slowly slowly slowly ripping out all this stuff. I’m sure the same…
Super Nephew
My cute little nephew Micah turned five back in May, and because Atti had *just* come home from the hospital and was still on oxygen, I missed his big birthday shindig. I also had no time to make him anything,…
Recover a lampshade
As I showed off in my house tour, my dining room fixtures look like this now: They started as the same drop pendants, but with a thin marigold colored glass shade. The shade was so small that the fixtures disappeared…
Micah’s Dragonskin Bag
Last Christmas Atticus was included (in utero) in Bear’s immediate family’s gift exchange. He got some crazy cute clothes “from” his little cousin Kai (including the tiniest velor tracksuit ever made), and as a fetus he was responsible for his…
Worlds Most Basic Quilted Coasters
One of the biggest adjustments for me in moving into this house was going from nasty crappy apartment carpeting to hardwood floors. There are so many things about having no carpeting that is just fantastic – especially to someone with…
Inspiration Wall
Ever since Christmas my nesting has hit hyperdrive. I’ve had a million and one projects lined up patiently waiting for me to finish up construction and painting and Christmas, and I was trying to race through and finish them before…
The preparations begin
I take a lot of crap for my creative endeavors. I really need to write up a whole rant on the subject, but lets just leave it for now by saying that for as many years as I’ve been trying…
Christmas goes all year round at my house…
I’m always a little sad to see how quickly people move on from Christmas. To me it seems like just now is when you can really sit back and enjoy it. No more deadlines, no more rush, now you can…
Reining in the chaos
Now that we’ve finally, Finally, FINALLY, managed to finish up enough of the projects to pick all the protective paper up off the floor, I’m trying to claim control back over my life and surroundings. For my branch of OCD,…