I have a little weekend assignment for you today. Seriously, you’ll love it. It involves brownies that will change your life. I was always a boxed-brownie girl, even though as an adult I’ve made most everything else from scratch. Homemade […]
I am just pulling myself together after a couple weeks of illness (aka staying pajama-clad for days in a row, drinking more tea than a Brit, sleeping all day and coughing all night) and I …
Here it is, folks, the final custom Halloween costume that I made this year. The client who ordered this costume was also the brains behind the original Rockford Peach costume, and the Yo Gabba Gabba …
Soooo, remember in my last post where I said I had one more costume to share for the year? I lied. I have two. This next one to share today, and another (which was actually …
Have you heard of Max and Ruby? I hadn't until one of my favorite clients emailed me her costume ideas for her two children. Her girl was to be Little Orphan Annie and her eighteen …
My good friend Cassi wanted to have a family theme for one of their Halloween costumes, and since I was making her little Cabbage Patch Doll costume, I thought it would be funny to have …
Coming up with a new costume idea is one of my favorite things. When my friend Cassi asked for suggestions for her darling daughter, the first thing that popped into my head was a Cabbage …
What would a Fireman be without his loyal Dalmatian? Eliot is still young enough that he has no opinion, and becomes the trusty sidekick of whatever his older brother wants to be. He sure makes a …
For months leading up to Halloween, Milo talked all about being a superhero. He had even chosen super heros for each of the family, too! I decided to leave our costumes to make after I …
Happy Halloween! It's felt a little like Halloween since June around here, since that's about when I started thinking about and taking orders for costumes. You would think I'd be totally sick of them by …
Hello there world! We survived the Frankenstorm. In fact, Hurricane Sandy offered our family one of the most cozy, wonderful days we've had all together in a long time! With Dave home from work unexpectedly, …
I am so excited to announce that the pattern for the Big Bow Dress has been designed, digitized, edited, illustrated, tweaked, tested, tweaked some more, and is finally...FINALLY available for purchase HERE in my little shop! From the …
Have you ever felt like you were running a race you couldn’t win in life? Like there was always something more to buy or to achieve in order for you to feel like you had “made it”?In this book, I share how my heart changed and I began to find real, lasting peace, abundance, and joy through focusing on what matters most and disregarding the rest.