Category: Crafts

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Gift Bows: Easy, Fun, & Useful Craft Perfect for Winter Cabin Fever

I love Twitter. I find so many great links.  This morning Raising Arrows tweeted about her newest post Frugal Gift Wrapping which linked to a tutorial on making gift bows out of magazines. What a great idea! My first thought: this is something that will keep my boys busy for hours (and I don’t think my [...]

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Quick and Easy Winter Birdfeeders

I’m from Florida, we always made peanut butter pinecone feeders. Now in TN we don’t have any pine cones in the yard but we do have bagels. Here is a yummy bird treat recipe you can make from either.

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Cross Stitch Bible Verses

Joyful Expressions combines God’s Word with counted cross-stitch design! This site offers beautiful needlepoint patterns and custom patterns. I just ordered three of the 5 x 5 inch designs for my granddaughters. They fit easily into a CD case which becomes the instant frame. All the designs feature a Bible verse and most are both fun [...]

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Random Homeschool Happenings

Here are photos of our boys homeschooling (painting, baking, measuring, mixing, cutting and building.)

“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.” –Michael Bridge

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Learning to Knit via YouTube Videos

I sew, quilt, smock and crochet, but I never learned to knit. I’ve always wanted to. Yesterday,  I bought a skein of yarn and needles. I watched a few “learn to knit”  videos on YouTube and the Learn to Knit website and today I have a 5 x 6 piece of eh, something – we’ll [...]

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Shoe Storage in the Mudroom

“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” I’ve been working on our laundry/mud room. We live on a farm and get a lot of use from our mud room. Shoes were thrown in baskets and boots stacked by the door, which is a recipe for [...]

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