DIY Chinese New Year Lanterns
Kenzie asked me to come in and talk to her class about Chinese New Year, so I thought I’d bring in these Chinese lanterns as a fun…
Crafts & DIY
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Free At-Home Escape Rooms!
Kenzie really wanted to try an Escape Room. For the last few months, she kept asking me to lock her in a room with clues. I mean,…
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Ear-Saving Mask Hack for Bespectacled Folks
This two-second hack adds buttons to your glasses, so that your face mask can hook onto the buttons instead of your tender ears.
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Life Unraveled
One of my projects this past year was knitting a 1975 tempestry for the city of Evanston. The idea was that knitters all across my beloved suburb…
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St. Pat’s Crafts
St. Patrick’s Day is a pretty big deal here in Chicago. The river is dyed an incredible shade of green, bars serve green beer, and there’s corned…
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DIY Mini Greenhouse
Living in the midwest, winter gets kind of gray. Gray skies, gray clouds, gray sludge. Right around February, I start aching for my garden and the feel…
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DIY Inspirational Valentine’s Cards
I’m both that mom…and that mom. Work life has been so busy lately, that I haven’t had a chance to grab Valentine’s Day cards yet. Given that…
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Knitting a Tempestry
I’m knitting a tempestry piece right now, for the year 1975. The way a tempestry works, is that you pull the average daily temperature for some time…
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Kindergarten Craft: Easy Rainbow Clouds
Kenzie’s birthday was earlier this week, and per our school’s policy, we can’t bring in any food or treats (peanut allergies, etc.). Instead, we’re encouraged to come…
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DIY Bedsheet Labels
Included in the post below is a single affiliate link to some containers I got from Amazon. If you purchase them through my link, I’ll earn a…
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Fairy Glamper Garden
Leisure Arts kindly sent over some product samples for this post (thank you so much!), and I have included affiliate links to some of their fairy garden…
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Upcycled Origami Box
We were at a friend’s house for brunch, and she put out a little box full of delicately folded magazine pages. Turns out, they were little boxes…