Hobbits or Elves are visiting today.  I made the boys' cloaks and they are constantly being used for all sorts of things. I love them. 

One of my friends told me that her favorite bag had gotten old and worn out.  She said she wished she could have a new one. She loves sailin...

This little pencil case was made for a niece's pirate themed birthday.  The boys picked out the fabric.  (I have since made 5 other penc...

I started a new quilt. I've always wanted to make a 1930s feedsack quilt. I'll post pictures when I finish. 

Years ago Jared bought me the complete collection for Calvin and Hobbes and we also have a few extra smaller collections around.  The boys h...

I started organizing all of my recipes. This is the first step. They had grown too big for one binder. I removed all the recipes that I have...

I have a couple other post, a detailed list of my meal plans for the last three months and my food budget, some craft posts, some new favori...

She was my age when I met her. That is hard to believe because she seemed much older that I feel now. Time is a funny thing.  I was about te...

Aren't these the cutest?!? And the warmest too! I'm in love with these mittens that I made using this pattern from IkatBag:  http://...

Four years ago when we moved from a much smaller house (that had a big shed and attic space) to a larger house (with a little tiny shed and ...

The baby's Christmas present. 

1. The button that turns on/off the tea pot broke (after 11 years or almost daily use). The plastic dry-rotted where it was meeting the swit...

Two stuffed sheep that I sewed for a birthday and Christmas gift. The one on the right was the first one, but it was deemed not soft enough,...

These are a few felt ornaments that I sewed for one of my sisters for Christmas. 

Speaking of Williamsburg... the boys all have hats that were given to them, but on one of them the trim was falling apart.  So I picked it a...

I started keeping a list of the books that I read 5 or 6 years ago challenged by the Tim Challies reading challenge .  I decided that I coul...

The boys all get their own set of tools when they are 4. These tool sets and the projects that they have inspired have taken over much of my...

Between Jared's one-week break from his two classes this Fall we spend two nights in a cabin on the James River. The sunsets over the so...

This Christmas Aldi was selling these adorable little Gnomes. They didn't look too hard to reproduce so I bought two (the last two they ...

I sewed this little apron in a few hours the morning of a birthday party.  The boys had picked out a cooking set for their cousin and while ...