Craft Knife

Nutcracker is finished, and Christmas is on the horizon!  Here's what I'm currently working on, trying to finish, or at least determ...

The overnight trip to Cincinnati with my Girl Scout troop gave me an idea. Matt loves baseball. I like baseball. There's baseball RIGHT...

  The Nutcracker battle is fought not just on the stage, but also on the Christmas tree this year! And Team Mouse is finally winning! I bou...

  Another Nutcracker season is done and dusted! My anxiety eye twitch hasn't yet gotten the news, nor has my brain at approximately 3:00...

Oh, just sprawling across a bank of institutional chairs and trimming one's pointe shoes with a pocket knife... you know, as one does! O...

Once upon a time six years ago, there was a very tiny toy soldier  bravely marching into battle under the direction of her Nutcracker Genera...

  Syd and Matt helped me make the BEST Christmas gift for our favorite baby. I wanted to make our favorite baby a set of Nutcracker-themed s...

  I have decided that the holiday between Halloween and Christmas is, in our family, The Nutcracker.  I mean, it's got all the holiday t...

Syd has been dancing ballet since the age of four. It's one of the governing passions of her life. It's the only extracurricular, ot...

As you will likely have guessed if you've known me for at least a year, we are deep into Nutcracker season, with the curtain rising in j...