there is so much to love this week. the inauguration went smoothly and we have a new president. I can now read news without it being full of "shit what'd we do this time?" it is an amazingly freeing feeling. on wednesday i went to reddit's news page and just scrolled and scrolled ( Read more... )

I have become a moderator at thefridayfive this year! It's great, and the new mod team should help with the question posting regularity. That said, I STILL don't like answering my own questions, so I'm going to answer spikesgirl58's from last week :)

1. Are you crafty?Heck yes. This month's kick: perler beads with the kids, embroidery on felt with the kids, rock painting ( Read more... )

I had this ambitious list of things to do when I finally got a day off from work. Yesterday I was down with a cold and Marc was running around so I took it easy, did some organizing and cleaning up but that was it. Today I got to it. Here are the things I made or fixed at the makerspace ( Read more... )

I keep making little free libraries and they keep getting better. I can't wait until one is up for real and I can put up photos. I've learned more about how more types of hinges work, how to puzzle together a door frame, sizes of clear acrylic, the best place in town for 1/4" plywood (menards) and the best place in town for primer (habitat restore ( Read more... )

In an earlier post I mentioned my family's conversion to using fabric as gift wrap at Christmas, a few of you liked the idea so I figured I'd post more details ( Read more... )

we were at the craft store last weekend, a place I try to avoid because there's always SOMETHING I can't resist, you know how it is, but marc had his big local burning man thing coming up and was making himself a light up tutu. anyway they had perler beads on sale and josie hadn't ever done them before but dang it, I loved these things as a kid. so ( Read more... )

My least favorite part about buying fabric has been and always will be the dreaded Fabric Counter ( Read more... )

today's question is from jume

Did you do any crafting as a kid/teen? If so, how does it differ from the crafting you've done as an adult? If not, how did you get started?oh gosh yes. as a kid, I made everything. that's part of the reason it's so fun seeing josie's enthusiasm for art. or maybe just art supplies? I also loved drawing, stringing beads, ( Read more... )

I sew all the time, but lately I've been running into an awful fact: it is really hard to measure kids for a sewing pattern. It's hard enough to measure an adult, but with the kids patterns there is WAY more variation, and to make it worse, the pattern companies are not helping. at all ( Read more... )

Crap I forgot about something I told marc... that I was never going to have an open etsy shop over Christmas again. But what have I done? Lured in by extra sales I went for it, and it's bad and only getting worse ( Read more... )