The last time I was in this part of Colorado was in the mid to late 90's.  I lived in Colorado for a while after I graduated from college.  This was a much different time in my life; it was before I met my soul-mate husband and also pre-children.  I was working at an outdoor shop and doing as much as I could...

Our first destination in Colorado was the Great Sand Dunes.  We arrived in the evening so we made our way to a wilderness area campground and worked on setting up the tent and making some dinner. Kudos to my chef husband who does such a great job preparing for our family.  We were in this really neat desert like area and enjoying bowls...

So I am starting to go through our vacation photos and am ready to start sharing in some of our adventures.  As I shared we had been planning this two week road trip adventure to take our boys to the beach.  We had not gone to the beach together as family and here we are with this teen and pre-teen boys so we...

You may remember that I was taking a break from the wool Pussyhats for the summer months.  I attempted to do my second knitting pattern!  I incorporated an existing lacework pattern known as Cat's Paw into a headband pattern.  I did the first sample in some kitchen cotton and it came out a bit heavy.  As I was curating the yarn to make...

I am sporting my red white and blue today while I am knitting away on my Welcome Blanket.  You may have heard about this new craftivism project imagined by the co-founder of the Pussyhat Project.  It is a call for 2000 blankets with yardage that will add up to the proposed "Trump Wall"  after the blankets are displayed in a museum in Chicago...