Posted in Green Living, Natural Toys on Feb 2nd, 2012
My wool and cashmere hats, teething toys and flower hair clips are included in a gorgeous Natural Kid’s spring gift guide chock full of all sorts of beautiful things for children made from wool, wood, cotton and other natural materials. If that’s not awesome enough, they’re all handmade by fantastic artists committed to creating beautiful, [...]
Posted in Create, Felted Sweaters on Nov 1st, 2009
Is that what you’re wondering? Why did I change my business name this summer and how did I settle on Sesame Seed Designs? When I first started selling things on Etsy, nearly 2 years ago, I was focusing on selling hats for babies. My hats are still a big part of what I sell but [...]
Posted in Gardening, The Outdoors on Jun 10th, 2009
I’ve survived the toddler birthday extravaganza, complete with another cake and more celebrating on June 2, her actual birthday. The summer camp I direct starts in a week and a half and I’ve been busy getting ready for it. I finally had a weekend to relax last weekend and it was so nice! With the [...]
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 Children, Create, Family, Felted Sweaters 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. [...]
Our tree has been down for a while, the decorations dismantled and the 12 days of Christmas ended yesterday so why am I still blogging about it?’ Well, I got some fabulous handmade gifts and want to share them with you and give a little shout out to their super talented makers. I was a [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Family, Seasons, Winter on Dec 21st, 2008
In the last week we’ve had snow and ice and lots of overreacting byt weather forcasters but this weekend the storm really came! We have about a foot of snow and it’s still coming down. This is Portland, people! We usually get a little snow and some ice but this is nuts. The first …
Posted in Create, Felted Sweaters on Sep 18th, 2008
I know I said I would blog about what I knitted this summer (it was surprisingly little) but I want to share this project first. I had a custom order on etsy to make water bottle covers for a Sigg bottle and a child’s Klean Kanteen and they were so fun to make! I love [...]
Posted in Create, For the Home, knitting on Apr 26th, 2008
A sunshiney weekend is happy. So are buttons- lots and lots of buttons. I bought these from an etsy seller and got them in the mail yesterday. Who knew buttons would make me so happy? Why does the simple act of sorting little buttons make me so happy? I loved sorting them …
Posted in Create, Felted Sweaters on Mar 14th, 2008
I go to thrift stores pretty frequently to look for sweaters to felt and make things for my etsy shop and I find some cool stuff. I hear about people finding great cashmere sweaters to felt, or frog and knit with the yarn and I am never so lucky. I’ve chalked it up …
