arts and crafts

Daily Art Musings: Your Aesthetic vs. Prepackaged Aesthetics

“To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you…
I Painted My Own Regal Pet Portraits

“Everyone is taught that angels have wings, but the lucky ones of us find they have…
I Made My Christmas and Yuletide Gifts This Year

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched…
The Art of Patience: The Three-Year Sweater

“Goals are like apples in a tree. Some are a little higher than others, so you…
Daily Art Musings: A First Time for Starting Over; The Necessary Evil of Frogging

“You can’t be afraid to burn everything down and start from scratch. Because the only direction…
Daily Art Musings: Admiring Folk Art

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the…
Yarn Weights for Regular People

“There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup,…
Daily Art Musings: I Really Needed to See This

“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” ― Frida Kahlo Other than the brutal ice…
How to Make an Elegant Fabric Bookmark

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” ― Mason Cooley Although…