Category: Crafts

I’ll be teaching a class on block printing at the end of April… and I’ve been anxious to try it myself! There’s a slight learning curve on the carving, but I’m staying with simple designs, so… I chose these nine for a friend who likes horses and shed hunting and fishing and dogs and books!…

I stole away two granddaughters for most of the day. I was ready to do more peg loom weaving, but the old sheets I’d ripped up were pink and tie dyed pastels, not exactly my color scheme. Two little girls approved though. First was tying the strings to the pegs. I demonstrated a row or…

Still no luck downloading photos. Can anyone say, Aggravation? Tonight I had another peg’s worth of bags slid down on my rug. I can tell that the first rows I didn’t twist the bags any, and then for some reason I decided to. It has a different look to it but that may not be…

Vernon and I went on a little adventure today and I was all set to share but my camera is refusing to find my wifi and download photos. Our internet provider brought us a new router… I have no idea what was wrong with the old one… probably nothing. The installer insisted we use a…

Congratulations, it’s a peg loom! This type of weaving predates the Vikings. Pegs are set into the holes in a board. Weft strings are laced into the pegs. Then whatever you’re wanting your rug to be made from, for my first one, I’m using plastic grocery bags looped into a rope. It is wound alternately…

I’ve told myself over and over again… I don’t need another craft… I don’t need another craft… Welp, I’ve got another craft… Any guesses? I’m pretty sure this is a craft few of you have heard about. Hopefully, tomorrow I can give it a really good try…

Now that I’ve handed out the last of my Christmas presents, I can share. Often I’ve painted tiny watercolors and sold them, but the teeny frames are hard to come by. I look at thrift stores and garage sales but no way will I buy them! That cuts into my profits! I decided to do…

Victoria and her boys left after lunch… they played until the last minute with Quinlan and Lorelei before Quinlan had to leave for his basketball game. Lorelei stayed behind to eek out the last minutes with the cousins. When they finally left, I asked Lorelei what we should do… Craft? She asked? So we did….

I hope you had a great Christmas. We did. We are very blessed. Victoria had stayed for a couple of days and in between walks in the unseasonably warm weather, we managed a craft! Yay! I’m always up for making something. First we went to the creek to gather willows. Short. Straight. And hopefully, green…

Our wreath is finished and it looks great, especially in low light. Tonight was the auction for the Festival of Trees and the wreath brought $625. We don’t receive that money but just a share of the pot, whatever they chose to give us. Tomorrow the display is open to the public and they vote…

I went in to the library to finish decorating for our Open House and Silent Auction next Monday. It’s a big and fun party and we try to do it up right. It does take a fair amount of work though! As I worked, my co-workers were busy creating a wreath to donate to the…