Crafts, Finances and Life Experiences of a Stay-At-Home-Mom
I bet you’re wondering what in the world Abraham Lincoln has to do with quilting. While I’m sure Honest Abe enjoyed a warm quilt or two in his day, I’m thinking more along the lines of his famous quote “give me six hours to cut down a tree, and I will spend the first four …
Let’s take a moment to think about all the unfortunate last names that exist in the world. Sometimes they’re just boring (looking at you “Smith”), sometimes they’re impossible for anyone else to pronounce, and sometimes, they’re just plain dirty (“Hello, Mrs. Butte. It’s nice to meet you”). The focus of my last week or so …
I’ve been an avid fan of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement for a while. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, members of the FIRE movement live debt-free and save/invest the majority of their income (sometimes up to 70%) in an attempt to retire early and live off of dividends, passive income and other …
Anyone who has ever been to any sporting event, concert, festival, fair or backyard BBQ has probably come across the game of cornhole (or “bean bags” for you weirdo northerners). I first discovered the glorious game of cornhole in college. Apparently everyone else had been playing it for decades, but it was totally new to …
We love our house. It is so pretty and because of all the additions the previous owners added, it is extremely unique. However, sometimes, the lack of functionality is exceptionally frustrating. It’s generally the small things that get to us. Like we don’t have a coat closet and our garage has a pole right in …
A few weeks ago, I discovered something amazing. Not eat as much as you want and never gain weight, amazing, but still amazing. Paper piecing. What the heck is paper piecing you ask? It’s a way to basically turn anything you can draw into a quilt block. Okay, maybe not anything. But also, maybe anything. …
Shortly after the shelter-in-place order came down, a sweet girl in our neighborhood came up with a great idea: a painted rock scavenger hunt. She posted about her idea on the neighborhood social media sites. Then, she kicked the whole thing off by filling her front yard with painted rocks and even went so far …
You know those super pretty quilts with super intricate quilting? There are swirls or feathers or boats or what have you. Yeah, I love those quilts. And I am also positive I will never be able to create them. I mean, not without spending thousands and thousands of dollars on a giant long-arm machine and …
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Long before coronavirus and the associated shelter-in-place order, we have been obsessed with Netflix baking shows. We have seen every episode of The Great British Baking Show, Nailed It, Sugar Rush, Zumbo’s Just Desserts, etc. Slowly, with this obsession came the desire to try baking crazy, pretty looking things on our own. After all, it …
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You know when you have an idea for a project and it’s great on paper, then you start working on it and run into problem after problem? Yeah, that’s how this quilt played out. I saw triangle quilt after triangle quilt on Pinterest and they were all so cute. Luckily, I have a friend that …
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