Creatively Tinkering

This will be short and sweet as I am on a family weekend get away. Lately I have really been wanting to do a crochet project but I've had this dog sweater project waiting in the wings FOREVER. It was a project my mom asked me to make for one of my parents' dogs. But every time I tried to make it I got confused by the way the pattern read and would give up. Lucky for me this week I was finally able to find a video tutorial on You Tube for the patteren. So now I am able to make some headway and make this adorable sweater for my dad's dog. Here's a link to the video:  https://youtu.be/YTJrFqoslaI And here's the work in progress: I am looking forward to finishing this so that I can start on a crochet project for myself.

Oooo first project post!! It was a very cold, very wet, and very dreary day two weekends ago. So instead of doing chores, because honestly who wants to do that, I decided to finally put together a Tee-Pee tent project for our daughter that I had been slowly cutting out through the week. The idea for this project was inspired by some friends of ours who have a cute tee-pee tent for their 2 year old son. We were visiting with them one evening and our little lady thought that his tent was so COOL! So of course I immediately started to ponder, "how hard could that be to make?". Off to Pinterest I went where I found a plethora of DIY instructions for making a tee-pee style tent. I came across an image that just showed simple measurements for the panels for the tee-pee and followed it to:  The Reinvented Housewife . Her directions were easy to follow and it took me about 3-4 hours to sew it all together (note: that does not include the time to cut it out, which was probably a...

Well it's been a long time... a very long time. But here I am, making a new attempt at blogging. In the last two years since my last post my life has had a lot of change, so lets do a little catching up. In the two years since my last post: The hubby and I decided to move out of our townhouse. We learned I was pregnant. We technically moved twice, we lived with friends while selling the townhouse, then moved into our new (fixer upper) home. (More on this later...) Our baby girl entered our world in Sept 2016 (a month after we moved into our new home). I got a new part time job Now that list is definitely the cliff notes version, but if I went into detail about everything, it would make for a TLDR style post. Anyway I am going to try my hand at this blogging thing again. I'm hoping to use it as a way to share creative projects, a place to come to terms with our fixer upper home, and help to reconnect me with my creativity as I feel I have allowed it to be shoved...