Craft Knife

I can't decide if I like these or not. The kids and I got this book, Pattern Play , free from some publicist or another (fun fact: whe...

I've been doing a LOT of sewing lately...skirts, our fashion show dress, another dress, bloomers, two sets of fabric matching games, and...

In retrospect, there was probably always something wrong with that pink glue gun, the one that burned so hot that when I accidentally squeez...

Yes, it's fashion show season again! This year, Syd designed a "Rose Dress," one whose details were a little on the light sid...

I'm still learning all about my new-to-me garage sale light tent . I tell you this to explain the following photo shoot: Forty-nine ph...

Phew! Nothing like a nasty, mid-week stomach flu to take a person off of the grid for a while. No email, no Facebook, no housework, no book ...

Dear Matt, First of all, thanks for doing the laundry. What with Willow barfing and all, laundry definitely needed to be done, and I'm g...

Highlight of our weekend trip to Arkansas : I do love to walk with my girls to my old elementary school a few blocks away from my parents...

A couple of weeks ago I participated in a half-hour usability study for the new IUB home page . Usability studies are right up my alley--fiv...

Due to a little "incident" yesterday evening ( Cake aptly named this incident "When Ice Cream Turns into Tragedy"), the ...

So the day was not even two hours old, and already two nice men of the Jehovah's Witness religion were keeping me company as I put laund...

So I'm grading some final papers in the study, while the girls are playing outside and Matt is working on my book proposal on the other ...

My computer is messed up. Another word for this is "suck," which rhymes with the word that I say when I can't get onto the int...

I've been really really REALLY wanting to get my hands on , but it's not yet my turn in the library queue, and anyway my vintage but...

After I set the girls up with lunch yesterday morning, I snuck off into the study for a few minutes to see if I could get another paper grad...

So yesterday morning I drank coffee, I made peanut butter cookies with the girls, I did my cardio workout with YourselfFitness, I worked on...

I'm siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!!! (insert lots of whining, kvetching, moaning, and just general unpleasantness of personality here) ...

Choosing to carry several bunches of bananas in my arms rather than hold onto the railing this morning, I fell down half a flight of stairs ...

At least I can say that I've done it now: I've sold at a craft show in the rain. A deluge, really. I mentioned before, right, that I...