Ten Sleep is having a baby boom. Twelve, well, I think it’s twelve, people from Ten Sleep are having babies! Some live other places now, but we count them just the same! Additionally, some people know what their little bundles of joy are… and for the first time in a while, we have girls! Seems…
Category: Crafts
Wet Felted Wool Hat II
Starting with yesterday’s post, I continued my hat project. I had *barely* enough wool to make two layers with my roving. My mittens, if you recall, had four layers. Four wet felted layers will block wind and make your hands sweat if it’s 30 degrees! Two was not enough, but it was what I had…
Wet Felted Wool Hat
The latest wet felted wool project was this… a hat! My son-in-law got a great hat for Christmas, knit, and with well formed ear coverings… so I decided I’d make one for me out of wool. I copied the pattern and went for it. I was really down to the tail ends of my wool……
Cute and Practical
Sledding seemed to be the focus of the day, even though the morning dawned with a -8 on the thermometer! It had warmed up by the time we got two little boys fed, dressed, and ready to go and they were READY! We bought them new sleds for Christmas, though they’re much too young to…
Felt Your Own Mittens
Well, besides everything else that’s typical of Christmas preparations, I thought I’d try making my own mittens! Now, technically, I was going to make mittens for the grandsons to use… felting old sweaters and cutting them into mittens and sewing them together. As I’ve explored ways to do that, searching the internet and youtube, I’ve…
Perfect Stocking
Busy day… Crafting and baking cookies with two of the grandsons, and their moms! Now to keep Vernon from eating them all before Christmas… Before it gets too far away from me… and this is a spoiler for my father-in-law… I decided to go ahead and share what I made for him! Everyone else had…
Questions and Answers – December 2013 Edition
Barbara: What is lump jaw? There are two forms of lump jaw, soft and hard. Soft is when an infection starts, usually in the lower jaw, and usually from a puncture like from stickers, rough grass, or sticks. It forms a walled pocket of pus. If you can grab it and move it around, it’s…
Library’s Heart
The Silent Auction was tonight and we had a good turnout. It warmed up to 18 degrees today, so everyone was loving the “heat wave” and ready to get out of the house! I *DID* finish my Father Christmas… and I turned him into a stocking. He didn’t fit the stretcher bars I had, and…
That’ll Work
The Silent Auction at the library is creeping up on me… Father Christmas remains unfinished… I felt the need to complete *something*… so I rummaged through my piles downstairs… and came up with this for supplies. Two hours later… a mitten decoration emerges from the mess… Huh. That’ll work! (for those of you curious to…
A Box
I’m working on an item for our library Silent Auction next week. I chose to use wool, and decided to copy this great vintage Father Christmas card. I know, why not start with a box? Or an apple? NOOOOOO… I have to start with a PERSON for heaven’s…
Well, poo!
Today included a mad dash over the mountain and back for the twins’ unofficial birthday party. We’re four days late, but they didn’t seem to care! You know me, I couldn’t resist trying to make something! They’re big readers, well, as big as two year olds can be… so I decided to make them their…
Harvest Dinner Raffle Preview
After a day’s work at the library, and making meatloaf, baked potatoes, and biscuits for supper… I cranked out a few Soap Stones to donate to our Harvest Dinner fundraiser on Saturday! Yeah, ALREADY! It always seems to sneak up on me! Seems like we’re down in donations this year for the library raffle… So…