Tag Archive: handcrafted

merger

This blog has been merged with my other blog, Life in a Mountain Town. It is the end of August 2011 and all posts on this blog have ceased.  I’m leaving every thing… Read More

Crafty Pastor 2011

Well, I’ve done several Crafty Pastors this summer but haven’t gotten any good photos of the work until this week. These are the collage pieces that the participants made. They are fabulous! The… Read More

Random Acts of Kindness

Take a look over at this blog: yearofkindness Really interesting! I believe she’s come to the end of the 100 days, but it’s still worth looking at and getting inspiration. I am still… Read More

Thumbprint Stole For The Bishop

This past week was the NC Synod assembly for the Lutheran church (more about that and other stuff here) and I was asked to assist in making a stole for the bishop. The… Read More

Eric Freitas

Found an awesome artist: Eric Freitas He makes clocks. But they are not ordinary clocks. They are amazing pieces of moving art! The background of this blog is an image of one of… Read More

Without A Voice

So I’ve been pretty far from creative lately. I have knit a few things I guess but I’ve made nothing. Just not felt very creative lately. Dull, actually. Well, that and I got… Read More

Baby Blanket

Just finished this baby blanket for a baby shower a few days ago.  It’s made from a linen/cotton yarn–not super soft but still feels really good and has a nice hand (as they… Read More

Journey of Renewal

As part of the Journey of Renewal program for my ministry, I am to create a life plan, life goal, mission statement type of thing. It is actually quite interesting. The latest assignment… Read More

Christmas Roundup

Ok, so it’s time for the Christmas Roundup! First, some things I got as gifts.  Books, for one thing, which I’ve already listed in the previous post.  Also some scrapbook paper and a… Read More

All Done But The Baking

Well, finally, all the DIY Christmas gifts are complete!  All except the baking part, of course. I didn’t end up doing as much knitted items as I have in the past, but that’s… Read More

Carnival, Costume and Candy

Saturday was our Halloween Carnival and oh what a wonderful time we had! There were over a hundred people who came, both adults and children. We had candy, carnival games and a haunted… Read More

DIY Christmas Progress

Since I started the idea of making all my Christmas gifts (or at least as many as I possibly can and hand made by others when that’s not possible) I’ve gotten quite a… Read More

Saturday comes round again

So, last weekend was my birthday and since then….well…there is no other way to put this….I’ve just been lazy when it comes to my blogs. A week ago was the massive church yard… Read More

bird box

Since the first box or so I made with the swallow on the outside I’ve wanted to make another prayer box with something similar.  Finally gotten around to it. This one has a… Read More

New Prayer Box

Haven’t had a lot of time to work on any prayer boxes or other things to leave randomly around town as of late because I’ve been diligently spending all of my “craft time”… Read More

Paint It Yourself Ceramics

I love the paint it yourself ceramics places. Over the years, since this became popular, I’ve made countless things. Here are two things I made recently….a butter dish and a pie plate.  Just… Read More

DIY Christmas in July

So, there are tons of Christmas in July sales at various places. Reasonable. It is July, after all. This has gotten me to thinking. I’ve been aiming for an all DIY Christmas for… Read More

Pink Saturday–Give Away!

Happy Pink Saturday! Thank you to How Sweet The Sound for being the hostess and if you want to know more about Pink Saturday, that’s the place to go. So, I have my… Read More

Little Dutch Girl Quilt

So I’m in the Really Big City visiting my mom for the week and one of the projects we’re working on is getting together parts for her Dutch Girl quilt she’s been working… Read More

Blue Box

New Prayer Box–this one is all blue and silvery.  I seem to have spent most of the time lately in the goldish, bronzish, coppery area and thought I’d take a break and move… Read More