When your husband gets a flat at 2am in San Francisco and you spend an entire day trying to sign up for AAA and get them to come tow the car before the city does. I’d rather be crafting.

For about the last week, I’ve spent the majority of my craft time experimenting with things that will become more clear over the next few weeks. The problem with experimenting is that it rarely ends in a finished craft, as evidenced by the lack of new cards posted here. So today, after coloring a page full of stamps, I finally …

I love to crochet baby hats. I don’t get a lot of use out of them (my head is too big), but they work up nice and fast and require very little yarn, which makes them the perfect project for sitting in front of the TV at night. Over the past several months, I’ve built up quite the collection, so …

Today I was thinking about all the projects I have going at once, and instead of doing anything intelligent like, oh, working on one of them, I decided to write about them. I think I’m going to start doing regularish check-ins. Not weekly, but often enough to help you (okay, me) keep track of what’s happening in Hobby Hopping Land. …

I hate it when I forget to turn off my camera after uploading photos. I never realize it until I’m ready to take pictures of my work, and the battery takes hoooouuurs to charge. So, that happened today. I went back through my iPhoto library to see if maybe I had anything old kicking around that I never got around …