Haphazardly Hobbying

I have no idea if it’s just me or if many people are like this…but so much of my day is made up of half-formed lists running through my head. I’m a relatively organized person but I’m sloppily organized, if that makes any sense. I make to-do lists on the back of envelopes and post [...]

101 Easy Makeovers I came across this while surfing this afternoon. While I don’t agree with all of it (no, in fact, I’m pretty sure that every room does NOT need animal print), there are a lot of good ideas for changing up your space inexpensively. Posted using ShareThis

I came across a link to the Feed Your Soul Free Art Project yesterday and just fell in love. You should check it out – there are a number of child-appropriate pictures available in free .pdf format for you to print & use as you’d like. I like this one in particular: I think it [...]

…but still I love this: Image from livingwithlindsay.com. I mean, I love it A LOT. And I’m wondering if grabbing a couple 25cent copies of Persuasion at the next Friends of the Library sale and making this is a wonderful homage to Jane Austen (and a small one to Virginia Woolf, who wrote in A [...]

…this is not going to be good for my Project List. Today I came across what is possibly the most amazing blog I’ve found in a while. I hope you think so too. There are about a million things I want to build now. We need these new bedside tables  (the small space we have has [...]

Even with all my company in this week, I managed to get some work in on various projects. Unfortunately, though, I added a few new projects to the list, too, so I don’t know if we can really count any of this as ‘forward progress’. You be the judge. Cat Cabinet Thanks to Dave and [...]

Here’s the current list of projects I’m *thinking* about taking on. THIS is why I needed a blog – to keep track of them all! Build room divider/screen for living room alcove. Move weight bench, etc into alcove – I’ll need some sort of non-scratch flooring for this. Make the wall hanging (actually three mini-quilts) [...]