This photo belongs to Pottery Barn Copyright 2011, Williams-Sonoma, Inc . All Rights Reserved . The ball in this photo is made by Handmade ...

Beatrice playing with the finished product. They also had fun making a circle to keep out tornadoes (yes, they are true midwestern girls). H...

We used little wooden peg dolls that we found at Michaels for the game pieces. Several years ago for Christmas, we bought the girls a small ...

Beatrice with our creation. It's cold. It's really cold, and Beatrice is bored. Really bored. While we could play another round of T...

Sylvia modeling the finished goods This one is for all those kids out there with cold wrists! If you have spent any amount of time playing i...

It is one thing to believe in buying handmade, it is another to actually do so. This year I made it my goal to get at least 75% of our prese...

I love winter. I really do. Without it, I feel lost in a perpetual time loop. I do not, however, like the crap that goes along with winter, ...

It's Halloween! And what would be more suitable than fresh baked pumpkin muffins. I used the flesh of one of the Vif D'Etampes Pumpk...

My super fantastic dust collector. If you've ever used a serger, you know that it can generate some serious lint. With what I do, the li...

While moving away from Los Angeles definitely had it's benefits (home ownership, Grandma Louise), there are definitely days I miss it. G...

ONE days harvest! I am so sick of eating summer squash! This is the year of the squash! We planted several varieties, but ONE has managed to...

The two "bulletholes" on the front. It took three tiny incisions to get the job done. The "bullethole" on the back. So m...

I love this song. I must admit, it totally freaks me out to hear music I like on television shows, for example when this song showed up in a...

Cutting the cake. Note the reuse of our old sea themed shower curtain as a table runner. Well I am a little late with this post, but for tho...