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About This Blog

This is just a fun little place for me to chronicle and share my craft projects and ideas.

Why yet another blog? (I'm a social over-sharer...see the long list of blogs and sites I own and maintin under "My Other Sites").  Because I'm a librarian, I am big Big BIG on keeping information organized, and don't want to clutter up the family blog I share with my husband by bombarding it with a bunch of craft-related posts.  Nor is this content relevant to our food blog or to my professional blog.

About Me

I didn't get into crafts until adulthood, when I learned how to cross-stitch and crochet so that I could make unique gifts for friends.  My mother and grandmother have always been fabulous seamstresses and crafty creative geniuses with anything involving thread, fabric or yarn.  Despite both of them trying to teach me as a child, I never wanted to learn how to sew or do anything "domestic".  Despite my protests, I caught the bug in my mid 20s, and have dabbled in crochet, knitting, and scrapbooking ever since, with a year or two of dormant activity every now and then due to grad school, a full-time career, and a wedding to plan.

Our first photo as a family. Jeff and I were married August 8, 2009.

After getting married last August and instantly gaining tween and teenage children, I discovered that working on crafts together provided a perfect opportunity to bond with my now 15 year old stepdaughter Kellie, and at times with my now 12 year old stepson Hunter (we roped him into helping with Christmas gifts).  When Kellie expressed an interest over the holidays in learning how to quilt, I admitted that it was time for me to finally suck it up and learn how to use a sewing machine, and yes...to quilt too, if I wanted to be able to help her.  So, much to my mother's delight, I've adding sewing and quilt piecework to my repertoire this year -- with a ton of patient guidance from my wonderful talented mom.

Our children, Kellie (then 14) and Hunter (then 11) working on a scrapbook chronicling 2009 as a Christmas gift for their grandparents.

Mom teaching Kellie how to prepare a quilt sandwich for a magic 9-patch tie quilt we made as a birthday gift for Kellie's 98 year old great-grandmother this June.

I now have the craft itch again big time.  And I am very fortunate to be married to a loving patient husband who doesn't object to my weekly craft store excursions, to the growing pile of supplies taking over our guest room closet or garage shelves, or to our dining room table being converted pretty much full time into my sewing table.