Project 2: Release the Clutch
Following this great tutorial from Homemade by Jill, I made a few of these wipes clutches for some mamas on my list. I am not sure if I just didn’t enlarge the pattern correctly when I printed it, but...
View ArticleProject 3: Instant Something
I really considered ordering these Instant Heirloom Cluster ornaments from Anthropologie… …but then I decided it might be more interesting to try to make them. Not being sure how this would work out,...
View ArticleProject 4: Carmels-by-the-Sea Salt
Last year, while shopping at Trader Joes, my mother-in-law and I decided to see what all the fuss was about with salted caramels, and she bought us a box. Sadly, I don’t think either of us were too...
View ArticleProject 5: Peanut Butter Fudge
Caramel recipe searching led me to a lot of other candy recipes, and I actually made this the night before the caramels. Maybe it was meant as a warm up or something. But really this peanut butter...
View ArticleProject 6: Hot Chocolate On a Stick
The good, the bad and the ironic pretty much sums up a lot of my week. First, the bad. I was feeling really good about being more organized this year, having most of my shopping done, and a lot of...
View ArticleProject 7: The Gripes of Wreath
This yarn wreath was actually meant to be the very first project I posted. I got started on it early, and since it’s a decoration for my home instead of a gift, I figured I didn’t have to be...
View ArticleProject 8: Mama Pajama
We traveled to California this year to spend the holiday with Chris’s side of the family . While we had a really great time seeing everyone and enjoying their mountain home (a trip which merits a...
View ArticleProject 9: Pick a Name
As mentioned in the last post, we traveled to California to celebrate Christmas with Chris’s parents, three sisters and their husbands, and our 3-year-old niece. We decided in October that the adults...
View ArticleProject 10: Cute as a Button
When I saw these early this year, I believed they were quite possibly the cutest cookies I’d ever seen. And this month they became the cutest cookies I’d ever made. I’m sort of torn on how much more...
View ArticleProject 11: Gift Bag
Over the summer I blogged about a “buttercup bag” (pattern courtsey of Made by Rae) I made for someone as a gift, and now that Christmas has finally passed, I can reveal that I made this little purse...
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