Posted in Create, knitting, Mittens, socks on May 13th, 2009
First I want to thank you all for the nice comments, emails, and tweets about my new website. I’m still adding some pictures to it and tweaking it a little but I’m really excited about it. I have several finished items that I’ve neglected to share on the blog. I keep wearing them and forgetting [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Create, Family, Paper Crafts, Seasons, Spring on May 11th, 2009
Happy Mama’s Day is too much for Sesame to say so she shortens it to “Happy, Mama!”‘ Mike and she even wrote Happy Mama down our front steps and sidewalk with sidewalk chalk. So cute. I wanted to make something nice for my mom and actually found the time to do it. I thought I [...]
Posted in Create, Felted Sweaters on May 3rd, 2009
I have a brand new website! I decided that I need a more official web presence so I bought my own domain name – ThinkingMamaDesigns.com- a while back. I’ve finally finished building my website (with lots of help from Mike) and it’s actually up on the web! My blog will stay here for now but [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Create, Felted Sweaters, Nature, Seasons, Spring, The Outdoors on Apr 28th, 2009
Oh spring, I do love thee. There’s nothing like a walk in the woods, or just in the neighborhood, to find some gorgeous crafty inspiration. Why not start in my own backyard?’ I do wage war on dandelions each spring but when it comes down to it, it’s hard for the scientist in me to [...]
Okay, so maybe hate is too strong of a word for a city that I have only passed through on road trips but let me tell you a few things about it. -It’s hot, really hot. Most of my drives through Redding happen during the summer and I am not a lover of hot weather. [...]
Look at my newest toy! I love her already. Apparently so does Sesame. It’s an Ashford Traveller and I bought it from a really sweet family who used to own a bunch of sheep but they’ve sold their land and haven’t had sheep for quite a few years. They were sad to be selling their [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Easter, Family, Holidays, Places, Seasons, Spring, travel on Apr 15th, 2009
12 hours in the car with a toddler isn’t so bad. Maybe it’s just my amazing trooper of a kid but I’m tempted to even’ say that the drive from Portland to the Bay Area was fun. I realize that sounds crazy but crayons, knitting and books on CD go a long way- 600 miles [...]
Posted in Patterns & Tutorials, Sewing on Apr 5th, 2009
I’ve been making a ton of felt food to give to little Sesame for Easter. She loves playing with her toy kitchen but she doesn’t have any food to play with! That needs to change. There are lots of great pictures and some free patterns for felt food on the internet (as well as a [...]
Posted in Patterns & Tutorials, Sewing on Apr 3rd, 2009
Sesame is more and more interested in playing with her dolls lately so I whipped up a super simple ring sling for her to use. I chose a ring sling so that she won’t outgrow it any time soon and I hardly had to do any measuring. Unlike the clothes I make for, she loved [...]
Mike and I have talked about getting chickens for a while and last Wednesday we decided to go look at baby chicks tojust’ see what was available near us and to find out a little more about them. Yeah, right. We both knew it was pretty likely that we would come home with some birds. [...]