Posted in Uncategorized 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 Uncategorized 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 not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2009
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.
-Redding was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2009
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 spinning [...]
Posted in Uncategorized 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 Uncategorized 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 Uncategorized 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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2009
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. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009
I’ve been neglecting my blog. I have a lot of projects in the works and my job has been keeping me busy- not to mention little Sesame who is learning a new word a day now and is often too busy talking to go to sleep. Here’s what’s been going on in the last month.
The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2009
I love this little dress! Like everything I’ve knit recently, it’s making wasn’t without a near-disaster. It was almost ruined when I put it on the little ungrateful toddler and she had a screaming fit and yanked at it so hard that she totally stretched out the buttonholes and I was afraid for the hand-stitching. [...]
