And just like that 2021 is wrapping up and I feel like I am still struggling to find the time to write and share like I want too, so I am really really going to try and commit to writing at least once a week . . . fingers crossed! So I shared these on Insta/Facebook spots but this was a sampling of the...

You will often hear me refer to how the Universe works and delivers. My spirituality is deeply rooted in nature, and reading the signs that the Universe puts in my path. At the beginning of the summer a notice came out on the campus where I work about suggested books from campus authors that would be good summer reads. I picked up one...

Like so many others, I can remember the first time I discovered Jess Brown and her rag dolls. It was the February 2012 Martha Stewart Living magazine. They caught my eye and I even remember talking with other maker friends in my community about them. It was love at sight with this amazing hand crafted toy. That year I had a milestone birthday...

It is really hard to believe that we are approaching the year anniversary for when the pandemic shut things down in my community. For us I have March 17 in my mind when everything changed particularly with school for my sons and my remote work.As with other anniversaries I am spending some time reflecting on the past year. I am excited that several...

Hello March! Can you feel it, can you see the hints of it? Just like that spring starts to tease us with all of her beauty! I have been some heavy household de-stashing for the past year and half and now my knitting world is getting a spring cleaning de-stash as well!I am trying it a couple different ways. In the shop are...

 Leave it to Bernie to be my entry into trying colorwork and mittens! Earlier this month I completed by first set of mittens and colorwork to boot after being inspired by the pure joy of Bernie's mittens after the inauguration. As if I didn't have enough to be happy about already, this was the icing on the cake. I have been intimidated to do...