Archive for the ‘Crafts and Recipes’ Category
Monday, February 28, 2011

(…Not to be confused with “stitching it up”. Bahahaha. Ahem.) Did you watch video tutorials on knittinghelp.com? Weren’t they awesome? I hope you’ve tried making something that helped you get your feet (fingers?) firmly under you and that you weren’t afraid to take it out and start over as you got better. The second phase [...]
Friday, February 25, 2011

The glucose test. You know the one. It tests for gestational diabetes around 28 weeks, or, if you have a toddler and are horrible about being punctual with your prenatal appointments, closer to 30 weeks. You go in, having avoided sugary food that day to set a good baseline blood-sugar level, and then they give [...]
Monday, January 31, 2011

When I was, I don’t know, 6 or 7 years young, my grandma taught me the basic knitting stitch and gave me a pair of her needles to keep for myself. I remember being so proud as stitch after stitch went sliding from one needle to the other, eventually stacking on top of one another [...]
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Because I needed some change, and it’s cheaper to decorate my mantle for Valentine’s Day than it is to fly somewhere warm: Supplies from left to right: – Pillar Candles – on hand, mostly from Walmart – Wall Words of 1 Cor 16:14 – made on my cricut cutter with red vinyl on hand – [...]