Cross stitch tips and tricks sometimes seem like closely held secrets. Well I’ve decided to share mine with you today. I’ve been working on a plastic canvas ornaments kit with my daughter, Vada. As I gave her tips, I made notes to share with you.
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National Cold Brew Day Review, Recipe & Giveaway!
Happy National Cold Brew Day – it’s time to get your caffeine on!! I have a review, a recipe, and a giveaway for you today. I love my cold brew, it helps me keep crafting, and did you know that caffeine can actually help fight depression? What’s not to love?! OK, if you want, you can have decaf instead.
Crafty Love Link Party #23
Hello! Welcome to the July Crafty Love Link Party #23, hosted by Marie Segares and me. I’s so fun watching the party grow. We have tons of knit and crochet, but we could use more other crafts.
Be sure to share this link party with all your crafty friends so they can link up as well, and find new and fun craft projects around the web. Every month, the Crafty Love Link Party will open up on the first Thursday at 1:00 a.m. Eastern and close on the last Thursday at 11:55 p.m. Eastern. Share your latest crafts projects, patterns, tutorials, tips, and WIPS, and be sure to stop by and leave comments on other projects, too! Here are the 5 most clicked links from last month.
Kira K Designs
Good evening my friends! I have a lovely designer to share with you today. I met this talented lady at the TNNA show a few months back and I just knew I had to share her designs with you! So, here is a bit about her, and some great designs of hers as well. Keep reading to the end for some special limited time offers!
Kira Dulaney is the designer behind K Designs, a line of original knitting and crochet patterns with a streamlined and eminently wearable aesthetic. Kira’s designs include garments and accessories in a wide size range, featuring clean lines and intriguing details that are both interesting to make and easy to wear. Kira has been teaching knitting and crochet classes in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond since 2003.
Twisted Spirit ~ Twisted and Twirled MCAL #2
The second necklace in the Twisted and Twirled Crochet necklace series is made using the linen stitch. It has 4 full twists in it, which spins the half and half coloring in a fun effect. Choose your favorite team colors and use this necklace to show your team spirit! This sporty necklace can be worked up in no time with less than 50 yards of sport weight yarn.
Recipe ~ Polish Pickled Eggs and Beets
When I first started dating my husband, his mother had this great friend named Rose. Rose spent every holiday with Doug’s family, she was basically part of the family. Every Easter she made Polish pickled eggs and beets, and perogies. Doug’s Step Father, Bernie, loved them all! One year at Christmas I got Rose to tell me how she made the eggs and beets, and I wrote it down. There weren’t any measurements, it was really more by feel (taste?) … Read more
Recipe ~ Hard Boiled / Cooked Eggs in the Oven!
So this is a bit late for Easter 2013, but bookmark it or pin it and come back as you need! You can find the master list of all my recipes here, and you can find them all pinned here. This isn’t so much a recipe as a technique, and I certainly didn’t come up with it myself, I just want to share the joy with all of you! I used to hard boil eggs (put them in boiling water), … Read more
Plague!
Sorry I have been a bit scarce as of late. We have been dealing with a wee bought of the plague. OK, maybe not the plague, but the girls and I have been sharing a cough and a stomach bug. I spent most of the end of last week wondering when the world was going to stop spinning. You can imagine that made it a bit tough to look at a computer screen. Hence the scarceness. Thankfully we were all on the mend … Read more
Just another Wednesday
Wednesday always seem so busy around here. Doug doesn’t get home until 11pm or later, so I line up plenty to get done. Sometime what I get done is relaxing and painting my nails, but more often then not, it is paperwork, computer work, or yarn work. Today it was a lot of the last three.
Catching up
With all the blog moving and pattern posting, I have a bit of a backlog of cute little girl photos for you!
So without further ado, here is a bit of  the past couple weeks in our home.
Kyla wanted a “Mommy necklace” so I tossed one together from a chain I had that wasn’t long enough for an adult version. It made her very happy.
Sometimes Kyla has issues with smaller buttons. So Vada helps out.
