I receive a daily email from a website called Hometalk. Hometalk is a site that hosts a collection of home and garden DIY projects. Their daily emails have a collection of a dozen or so DIY projects that they have collected from crafty folks from around the world that have repurposed everything from coffee stirrers to pennies. [...]
I love Pinterest and I hate Pinterest. As I have said before, Pinterest is like crack for crafters - once you are sucked in you can't get out without an intervention. I do not know how many ideas are posted on Pinterest, but I sense it is in the hundreds of millions. I believe a [...]
My daughter Sarah and I spent the evening at a Coaster & Clipboard Frame Workshop at The Studio in downtown Fargo. The workshop was hosted by Kristine Wallin the gifted woman behind Bipolart. Kristine had all the supplies, treats, music, and guidance and all we had to do was show up ready to have fun. [...]
When it comes to being crafty - skilled, I am not. But I must confess, I so want to be gifted in that way. I go through phases periodically where I invest in some crafty effort, but then I ultimately abandon those efforts when I remember that, try as I may, I remain woefully unskilled. Lately, [...]
Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that you have no skills in a particular area and move on. Case in point, my artistic ability (or lack thereof). Last night Cheyenne and I attended day one of two days of the West Fargo Park District's Clay for Two class. It is taught by a lovely and [...]
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