Tag: gifting

  • Christmas Crafting: Part 2

    I love winter for the abundance of rosy cheeks, warm drinks and knitted goods. This year I haven’t been up to much knitting and instead have turned my attention to sewing, but for some reason this winter I’m hard to find without a ball of yarn in my lap. Maybe it’s the portability of each…

  • A Trivet (at long last)

    Here are just a few of the things I’m bad at: • Running long distances • Math • Recalling the story lines of movies • Mailing things promptly It often takes me months to mail anything. As a kid I moved from Indiana to Minnesota, then back to Indiana. My friends and I had the…

  • Thanks & Alpaca

    Regan and I spent our Thanksgiving being thankful for a family that still gathers for holidays. For about 20 years Grandma has hosted both Christmas and Thanksgiving in her barn — the barn that she and Grandpa renovated with dreams of turning into a bed & breakfast until they fell so in love with it…