Have you noticed the embroidered slogan sweater trend taking off the past couple of months? These sweaters, popularized by Lingua Franca, have been popping up everywhere on tv hosts and magazine covers. While beautifully made, some of these sweaters cost upwards of $400, out of reach for many of our budgets. I decided to make my own, using more affordable…
View PostI don’t know about you, but I think meal planning is one of the most stressful things of the entire week. On weeks where I don’t think ahead on Sunday and write out a meal plan, without fail there will be panic come late afternoon on Monday. What are we eating tonight? SO- here is the answer. A meal planning…
View PostHow is your 100 Day Project going? After narrowing down my project idea to making whatever I can using my existing supplies, the first 10 days went pretty well after an initial hiccup. Day 1: I pulled an almost finished Valentine’s Day hat out of my knitting basket and finished it. I don’t love the hat (it’s a little big)…
View PostWhen picking a project for your 100 day challenge, it can be really intimidating to decide what you think you can commit to for over 3 months. The key is picking something that can be accomplished in a short amount of time, like 5-10 minutes a day. If you spend more time each day, great, but it’s not necessary.…
View PostThis year’s #The100DayProject starts in one just one week! If you’ve never heard of it before, it’s a fun annual online art project where you choose a project (more on that later) and attempt to work on it every day for 100 days, while documenting it on Instagram using hashtag #The100DayProject. It’s SUPER LOW PRESSURE – I just want…
View Post(*Updated 3/30/2020* I originally wrote this post to give people ideas for fun craft night activities, but given the quarantine, these would all be good crafts to do while you’re home. Crafting is excellent for helping to calm an anxious mind.*) So you want to host a craft night, but have no idea what to make. It doesn’t have to…
View PostMy girlfriends and I have been throwing Galentine’s parties for six years now and we’ve run the gamut from super complicated, to going out to fancy brunch, to somewhere inbetween. Gone are the days of pulling out all the random stuff we’d received as wedding gifts but never used (chocolate fountain, anyone?) and complicated DIYs. Those parties were fun, but…
View Post“When your identity is linked to your hobby — you’re a yogi, a surfer, a rock climber — you’d better be good at it, or else who are you?…” – Tim Wu, In Praise of Mediocrity Last year, the NY TImes published an opinion piece in which author Tim Wu theorizes that the actual reason no one has hobbies anymore is…
View PostWhen I have a long stretch of free time where I can knit, there’s nothing I love more than putting on Netflix and bingewatching a series. If it weren’t for Breaking Bad and the Great British Baking Show, I would have fewer FO’s, that’s for sure. However, when I only have an hour or so, I enjoy putting on…
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