Lobolita

Inspired by this and this, I got some pegboard to hang up in my studio-cum-Gideon’s room. Since he’ll be scooting around soon, it’s important that we find places to put things that will be out of his reach. Enter the pegboard. Since it came in a dingy, scuffed white, I decided to make it into [...]

I have a million picture frames. Unfortunately, none of them match. In order to bring some unity to my collection, I decided to make one related set to scatter among the others on my living room wall. This is a super-easy project, and costs less than $10 altogether. Materials Unfinished wooden picture frames (I got [...]

Today, my friend Cheryl and I met to plan her wedding flowers! Her colors are red, black, and white–very classy. Since her fiance proposed between two red roses, those flowers are very special to her. I’m having fun strategizing my approach for Cheryl’s wedding. She wants her flowers to tie the bridal party together, but [...]

What do you do when you have a non-standard-sized cradle for your quickly approaching baby? Well, if you’re me, you make a custom-sized mattress and sheets for it. If you’re me, you also photograph said process, with the intent of putting up a tutorial on your blog. If you’re me, you also forget to photograph [...]

Last week, in my ongoing pursuit of a full freezer, my Mom and I made tamales. We used Tamales 101, which is a great book with lots of options, and nothing too fancy or fusion. No sushi tamales here, just tasty Mexican and South American goodness. We made 84 tamales altogether, a pitifully small number [...]

Since the Great Third Trimester Stomach Flu has got me pretty much glued to the couch, this has become a knitting blog for the time being. Forgive me if I’m not much inclined to bake, paint murals in the bathroom, or crawl around cutting out sewing pattern pieces at the moment. But the crafting continues. [...]

Last weekend I got to do some florist-ing for a friend’s wedding. Since my favorite part of my own wedding was doing the flowers (and my least favorite part was sewing the bridesmaid’s dresses. Don’t ask.), I’m always on the lookout to dish up some classic boutonnieres, corsages, and bouquets. It’s pretty simple, if you’re [...]

If  you look in the left-hand sidebar, you’ll see the new page I made explaining my current project. The idea is to use photos we’ve taken over the last few years as color, texture, and shape inspirations in my work. The pictures I’ve selected can be seen at Flickr, or in the slideshow after the [...]

Because I intend to sell things online, I wanted to build a light box or tent that I could use for my photography. Before we went to Brazil in 2007, I had a pretty good Etsy business going, but photography was always an issue. Hopefully, I can solve that problem with a cheap tripod, a [...]