Indigo Dyeing Kit Giveaway! Our friends from Dharma Trading Co. are going to send one lucky winner an indigo dye kit so you can get started and fall in love with indigo dyeing like we have! To enter the giveaway…

It’s been downright dreary around here with the weather. Dark, cold and damp.  Emphasis on damp – I was up at 4 am last Saturday digging a trench in the pouring rain so water didn’t flood our back bedroom! To…

I just read The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know about Raising Confident, Capable Kids and guys—I was schooled. No—not my children. Me. Here’s what I mean. It’s mid-January and it’s winter and it’s…

Give that traditional box of chocolates a stylish and crafty upgrade with this quick and easy project! It takes just five minutes from start to finish, and it’s a wonderful way to use up any scrap pieces of your favorite…

I needed a Valentine’s Day gift for my mom who is IMPOSSIBLE to buy for.  Buy the lady a lovely handmade scarf or piece of jewelry and she’ll say, “Oh, honey you shouldn’t have… I could have made this myself!” …

One of my friends has the coldest hands ever. Grabbing her hand is like grabbing a frosty block of ice. She’s also a nurse – and I always imagine her poor patients leaping way from her chilly clutches.  That said,…

Despite the fact that she worked full-time and was a single mom in my early elementary school days, my mom was good at school lunches when I was a kid. REALLY good. No sloppy slap-dash PB & J’s. She always found…

Anyone who sews regularly knows that when you finish a project you always have a pile of thread ends (little pieces of thread you snip off). Years ago when I had a handmade business and sewed hundreds of purses a…

by Rebecca Pitts Most of what my daughter makes at the easel is all process, meaning, it’s less about the finished piece and entirely about her experience scribbling, blobbing paint, and having fun. There are times, though, when I’m truly…