A crafty lifestyle blog
Do you remember my very first garden, back in 2014? And then it expanded a little in 2015. By 2016 (the last garden update here), I’d grown the garden as much as I would at my previous apartment. That was such a great beginning! Now, I’m in my 8th year gardening and my 3rd garden
Welcome to everyone who talked to me at U-Con last weekend! I sincerely enjoyed meeting all of you. Having a merchant booth for the first time was a great experience. I’m currently aiming to repeat this at Penguicon in April, and maybe some other conventions. Until then, you can always buy many of the same
Did I put enough exclamation points on the header for this post? I’m not sure it adequately expresses my excitement. THE SHOP IS OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s better, isn’t it? There’s a new link at the top of this website (two actually – I finally linked to my Facebook page in addition to the new shop), because
Before I go on a blogging hiatus for a short while (I have more projects to post soon!), I want to share exciting news: I’m definitely still working on putting the Etsy shop together! All of the photos in this post are previews of items going into the shop. All of the photos have been
This past January at the Twelfth Night event I coordinated the second Pentamere largesse tourney! This is a tournament to make sets of a dozen items to be donated to somewhere in the Middle Kingdom – the crown, or a more local group (Barony, Canton, etc), so that they have prizes to give out. I
Hey, wonderful readers! I know I said that I’d be posting today about the complicated shoe repair I did to my knee-high boots (to ultimately repair the toes, which were getting holes from scuffing), but I am getting super low on energy/spoons from job hunting. I’m going to take a week off from blogging. See
Almost three years ago, DeForest and I had an awesome Saturday spending 3 hours going through our neighborhood garage sales. One of the items I found was this great wooden box! It now holds my everyday SCA items, separate from the garb chest behind it. It was a little beat up and dirty. I gave
The first Pentamere Dirty Dozen Donation Derby was a HUGE success!!! 11 entrants made 35 dozen items to be donated as largesse. I’m so thrilled! Read on to see photos of the largesse, notes on how the tourney was run, and my ideas on changing it for next year. This is a very picture-heavy post,
Wow, I haven’t posted about Minecraft since March. I think part of that is that my first builds, from 3 to 4 years ago, are nowhere near as pretty as the ones I’m building nowadays. I’ve finally decided that I’m going to share them anyway, because it’ll be fun to have my entire Minecraft journey