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Tonight I fell in love with him again because I told him I was a little sad and he sat down in the couch let me rest my legs in his lap and watched an entire chocolate cooking competition episode.

That feeling when you want to ask your 12-year-old to take out the recycling in the ten mintues before he has to go to school, but he’s been LAUGHING DELIGHTEDLY OUT LOUD at his YouTube video for the last several minutes, and you just don’t have the heart to interrupt…

We’re shipping out at least some of the Patreon boxes tomorrow, and I am, of course, tempted to stay up late making just-one-more-thing, but I am determinedly reining in that impulse; there is PLENTY in the boxes already, hush Mary Anne. I have asked Kevin to help me go to bed at a reasonable hour

Finishing up the autumn Patreon boxes, which I’m hoping to ship out on Tuesday (let’s pretend that’s still autumn, shall we?). I try to include something new every time, and I thought these little wood discs would be nice even for people who don’t celebrate Christmas with a tree and ornaments — you could hang

This is the workout area in the basement, and it’s mostly pretty functional, and honestly, not super-inspiring. I’d love to have it look like a yoga studio — all bright light and plants, but there’s two tiny windows in there and lots of brick; it’s never going to have that kind of look, I think,

I meant to post this earlier — my first handmade quilt purchase, at the Oak Park Makers event! I fell in love with how Carly Kocurek layered these fabrics — to me, it’s like looking through a window at a beautiful collection of vases and flowers. I particularly love how she outlined and detailed the

I am still trying to decide whether to host a small holiday party / sale at the house. Very waffly! I could, in theory, do it Sun 12/5, Sat 12/11, or Sun 12/12. I could invite others to join, so there are a few more vendors to shop from. We’d require that everyone be masked

Took a break from working (I’m feeling kind of stressed after losing two days to being sick, but am trying to be chill about it) to finish off this cowl. It has SO many mistakes in it, but I am going to wear it anyway, in the spirit of embracing imperfection. The biggest mistakes: •