Here’s a little glimpse of a bigger project that I will tell you about in a bit. It involves making knitting needles, because yes, I’m too cheap to buy a bunch of needles at the store. For the same price as one pair of bamboo #7 needles, I made 8+ pair (I just haven’t finished… Read More »
Patching jeans, a tutorial.
So I have been a mother for 30 years. I have three of the male sex and four of the female. Can you imagine how many jeans we have had? Can you further imagine how many holes-in-the-knees we have had? Many, and many. It’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t been through the exigencies… Read More »
Temporary Living.2: Make-Do Decorating
You got a little taste of what our apartment in Oklahoma was like, and I can’t stress this enough: it didn’t have a whole lot to recommend itself, design-wise. Or, as I (rather less cheerfully) more often put it, it was an ugly little apartment. The walls were textured beige, the trim was fake-wood brown,… Read More »
Temporary Living.1
Thanks to a permanent duty assignment quickly followed by a (long) temporary one, the Lt and I were in temporary housing from November through May, including several weeks on the road driving across the country (and halfway back again), a delayed honeymoon (not, mind you, that I’m complaining about that week!), a month in a… Read More »
A slipcover for my handbag!
~Welcome visitors from Down to Earth! If you’d like to see more of the pantry/sewing room, go here! Just a quick post before we head out for fiddle camp… I wanted to show you a true hack. You’re going to wonder what’s wrong with me, but it’s just this: I love the leather on this… Read More »