There’s something so special about crocheting for a new baby. Out of all the projects I’ve made over the years, baby hats are still some of my favorites. They’re quick to finish, don’t require much yarn, and always make thoughtful handmade gifts that parents truly appreciate. I still remember crocheting my very first baby hat….
I had a little piece of air-dry clay left over after another project and almost put it back in the cupboard because it wasn’t really enough to make anything substantial. Then I realized I could turn it into the small incense dish I had been meaning to make for my bedside table. The first one…
I’ve made a lot of crochet accessories that looked cute in the pattern photos but somehow weren’t nearly as useful once I actually wore them. This little crochet bandana was different. I originally wanted something simple that I could throw on when my hair needed a little help, but I also wanted it to look…
My mother-in-law mentioned once, almost in passing, that she loved a particular bath salt blend from a shop that had since closed, and that comment sat in my head for months longer than it probably should have. When her birthday came around, I decided to just make a version myself instead of hunting down a…
There’s something about dropping a bath bomb into a warm bath and watching it fizz away that makes an ordinary evening feel a little more special. I started making my own because I wanted something that felt more personal than the bath products I was picking up from the store. I also quickly realized that…
There’s something about a little handmade jewelry dish that makes a bedside table feel instantly more put together. I’ve made plenty of plain clay dishes over the years, but the ones I keep reaching for are the ones with a little detail pressed into the surface. This leaf imprint jewelry dish is one of my…
I’ve made a lot of last-minute gifts over the years, and the ones that actually got kept, displayed, or used were almost never the store-bought ones. They were the small, slightly imperfect handmade pieces, which is really what sent me down the air dry clay rabbit hole in the first place. Once I had a…
If you have a jar of leftover coffee grounds sitting in your kitchen, don’t throw them away just yet. I started experimenting with coffee clay because I wanted a simple way to turn something I would normally toss into a small handmade project, without needing glue, complicated ingredients, or a kiln. The finished clay has…
Our porch has an outlet about six feet from the table, which is the only reason this project happened at all, I got tired of running an extension cord out the back door for a plug-in bug zapper that buzzed all night and barely made a dent anyway. I’d been buying the citronella tins from…
I noticed the ant trail before I noticed the actual ants, a thin, almost invisible line of them tracking along my kitchen windowsill toward a crumb I’d missed the night before. My first instinct was to grab whatever spray was under the sink, and then I stopped, because that particular spray had a warning label…
