arts and crafts
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The Necessary Evil of Frogging
““There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup,…
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Daily Art Musings: Struggling to Write a Cookbook
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies…
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The Uncle I Wish I Grew Up With
“An uncle is a bond of faith that even time can’t sever, a gift to last…
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Daily Art Musings: Your Aesthetic vs. Prepackaged Aesthetics
“To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you…
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I Painted My Own Regal Pet Portraits
“Everyone is taught that angels have wings, but the lucky ones of us find they have…
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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…
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The Art of Patience: The Three-Year Sweater
“Goals are like apples in a tree. Some are a little higher than others, so you…
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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…
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Daily Art Musings: Admiring Folk Art
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the…
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Yarn Weights for Regular People
“There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup,…