I am so thankful for the Catholic Icing blog! In case you haven’t seen it yet, you need to. Seriously. The crafts she comes up with, like the Last Supper craft that we did a few days ago, are too much fun. I wanted to take a picture of my little girls while they were … [Read more…]
Over 5 inches here at our house! My kids have never seen this much snow down here… nor are they used to having it stay more than a few hours! This has been a huge blessing for them, and I am so grateful! Thomas, Grace, Joseph, and my husband were there on the hill yesterday, … [Read more…]
I hope everyone is continuing to enjoy the Christmas season! I think I mentioned before that I just started knitting, thanks to the videos on youtube. It all started as a fluke, actually. I had bought some fun chunky yarn during the summer that I wanted to crochet into a hat or scarf. I soon … [Read more…]
I think I get a free pass on this… I’ve been holding a baby pretty much non-stop for days! (he will NOT sleep if I put him down. I’m not kidding.) 1. Joseph was baptized last week! We are so blessed to have good friends (M&B) be the Godparents of Joseph. With them in his … [Read more…]
I’ve been interested in making food from scratch for some time now. While I’m by no means militant about it, I do try to “make it at home” whenever possible. Initially, it was simply because I couldn’t trust that the restaurants… or the factories… really went out of their way to ensure that it was … [Read more…]
Where have I been??? Good grief… I turn around and a week has gone by already! I’m sorry I left such a depressing post up at the top for so long. I had no intention of doing that, and yet with all the inevitable bustling of this season, computer time had to fall by the … [Read more…]
Problem:This is what I had to dig out of the baby bag every time we went to pray the Rosary with our little group (bad and embarrassing, I know…) I could have used sandwich bags, but that just didn’t suit me. It lacked that certain… je ne sais quoi. Every week I would look at … [Read more…]
This Advent has been so disappointing. I had so many plans swirling around in my head… so many activities I wanted to try, presents I wanted to make, and elaborate lessons to bestow upon the kids. Enter reality. A certain little someone who shall remain nameless (but her initials are G-R-A-C-E) has seen to it … [Read more…]
Please get yourself a nice hot cup of tea and spend some time looking at the fantastic ideas over at Sew, Mama, Sew. Don’t miss her November “handmade holidays” — she is offering tutorials on various crafts for every day in November!
I absolutely loved Alice Cantrell’s post on handmade toys (seen here on her blog A Number of Things). Like Alice, I spent a good portion of my childhood “making things,” whether it was a fabric wallet, a purse with a zillion compartments, clay figures (with everything they would need to make their home comfortable), drawings, … [Read more…]