Christy Needlecrafts, Sewing 14 Comments
If you know me (or follow me on Instagram) you’ve no doubt seen/heard all about this by now. This beautiful piece of machinery joined our family last March. Technically, it was my 5th anniversary gift from Jesse. But being responsible adults, we put off the actual purchase until…we had a 4 year old and a 14 month old in a small, …
I made this pretty trivet to give to a friend of ours for Christmas. Fran works with Jesse, and she and her husband have become good friends of the family. A couple of months ago they came over and we made pierogi and borscht together, so the eastern-european flair of this design reminded me of her. I have watched youtube …
Happy 2017, friends! I say this every year, but I mean it this time: I am going to get this blog back up and running. For the first time since 2011, I have no distractions or excuses. No pregnancies, no newborns, no construction, no moving, no outside-the-home job. I’m thankful that I’ve even able to squeeze in semi-regular crafting time …
Part of me can’t even believe I’m writing this. Two weeks and three days ago, we passed our final inspection and moved into our new house! That moment, as the inspector was signing the Certificate of Occupancy and our construction foreman gave me a huge grin and a thumb up, was truly among the happiest of my life. Every moment …
Back when we were in the design stage of our house, and before I was pregnant with the little tyrant who, with his big sister, has been running my life for the last 15+ months, I had visions of blogging about every step of the build process. I’d do weekly posts about the progress we made, decisions we’d finalized, and …
So. Hi there. Turns out building a house while raising two small children doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for blogging. Since it’s been 9 months since my last post, almost a year since construction started on the house, 15 months since the baby was born, and 18 months since we moved into our temporary (oh God, please let it …