During my attempt to clean up the attic, I came across the many bins of sweaters I’ve been collecting since I styled the ‘Felted Sweaters’ story for Living November 06 to make this rug. I love everything about it, the look, the touch, the ease to make it, and the fact that you are reusing …

Felt is hardly new. But since it is such an incredible material, I did think it was a good post to leave you with over our break. It has so many uses and aspects to it, that it may inspire you to think of it in a new way after all. Growing up in Germany …

Time to remember the teachers and all they do throughout the year. As I mentioned before, I like giving food gifts, as to not add to their collection of mismatched mugs. For Christmas I usually make granola and then package it with some store bought honey and tea ( I love the simple packaging of …

yes, I just showed you how I used this twine for my advent calendar. But, I also used the same spool for the last 3 years of advent calendars, plus birthday gifts, cookie bags, teacher gifts,  … pretty much every gift I ever have to wrap. It looks great with colored paper, kraft paper, doubled …

Times are quite busy between work, the craft sale and the Holidays. But there is no way I could bypass making an advent calendar. My kids would rather not have Christmas gifts than give up their advent calendar. It is a looooong tradition in my family. When I was little, my mom tied 24 small …

Since moving to the Starrett Lehigh building in the Spring, we gained a lot of light and some space, but I had to give up 2 large bulletin boards I had in my office. One was always for the story I was working on currently, and the other never really changed, just ‘evolved’. For current …

My mother’s birthday is on November 25th, which is terribly close to Christmas. So for many many years now, I’ve embraced that part and given her an advent calendar that starts on her Birthday and ends on Christmas. There’s been many themes for the gifts, by color, the current favorite food, uplifting gifts, relaxing gifts …

It isn’t often that I find the time to  do the projects we produce for the magazine for my personal life , as I’m always too busy developing the next story (yes, that is Thanksgiving 2010 for me). But today I decided to take the 15 minutes it would take to decorate my own house …