Putting the cray in CRAftY since the 80s
(Subtitled: All the things bouncing around in my brain you didn’t ask me about but I’m telling you anyway.)
What a weird day/week/month/year this life has been.
I know, Captain Obvious in the house.
So far we’re holding steady, staying home, washing hands, cleaning, schooling, working, strategically planning grocery outings to avoid as many people as possible.
In between all the work of living I’ve been art journaling. Here’s a quick tour of what I’ve been up to. Welcome to my brain.
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Ever since I was a kid I’ve been obsessed with Sesame Street and Muppets. I’m still obsessed and keep a growing collection of Sesame Street toys on my desk at work to remind me to go out and play as often as possible. So I scooted around on Etsy and found the best Sesame Street…
Our Saturdays go something like this: Morning routine Tidy the kitchen and living room Smalls therapy Laundry Cleaning Making art Writing Reading Relaxing Dinner Bed Sometimes they go like this: Morning routine Tidy the kitchen but Interrupted by epic meltdown/tantrum Trip to the hospital for crisis evaluation Home Recovery Bed Those are extreme examples; our…
The alarm went off. I smacked the “snooze button” and went back to sleep. A few months ago I tried to trick myself into waking up at 5 a.m. I’ve always been an early riser, but I wanted to get back to having productive mornings. The kind of mornings that enabled me to have enough…
Everything I thought I knew turned out to be wrong. And that’s ok. The past few months I haven’t had much to say here on the blog. I’d rather say one good thing once a year than 1,000 mediocre things over the course of a year. I’ve decided no one will assign my worth to…
I just looked at my 2018 Word post and laughed and laughed.
You don’t need to be an artist to start making art. I’m going to tell you a secret art schools don’t want you to know:
Give yourself permission to suck. I can’t draw. If you’ve ever peeped my Insta, you know I tell no lies. But, I’ve developed a certain level of fearlessness about sharing my failures as I go because I learned that nothing bad happens when you share sucky art. So this is the story of why I…
“…it’s absolutely possible to reinvent yourself.” – Patty Eskridge, Art Journaling Magazine (Oct/Nov/Dec 2018) When I read Patty’s words a couple weeks ago I got goosebumps. I’d been feeling discouraged about blogging and designing crochet patterns. Maybe discouraged isn’t the right word, because by all accounts my business has been growing and to most people…
I’ve just got done cleaning out my craft room (more on that in a few days) and was overwhelmed by how many crafting materials I’ve accumulated over the years. I said to my husband when I was done, “If I can’t make something with what I have in here, I don’t need to make it…
