After four straight days of shoveling, chopping and otherwise hacking at the snow and ice in our driveway, my hands, wrists and arms complained terribly every time I tried to do any crocheting. So what if it was the week before Christmas and Mom’s hat wasn’t done. So, what else is new? Mom getting something [...]

Someone shared this story of giving with me and I thought I would help to spread the world. Krista Shugart, a high school student in New Jersey was inspired by her volunteer work in a local soup kitchen to do something more. People would come to the soup kitchen without scarves and hats and Krista [...]

Have a little Christmas village? Learn how to make teeny Christmas trees from natural materials in this tutorial.

In a desperate, 11th hour attempt to save a bit of Internet history, a small group of folks have grabbed a huge chunk of the many sites once hosted on Yahoo!’s free Geocities service. While most rightly agree that many of those sites were spamfests, there were more than a few sites that are certainly [...]

Rubber stamping, scrapbooking and paper crafts have always intrigued me but my oh-so-limited drawing skills have made a little easier to “just say no” to all the pretty papers, inks, embossing powders and stamps. After all, I already have enough beads, yarn and fabric to stock a small store. The idea of starting a new [...]

I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. Spend enough time and effort on something that you publish online and sooner or later someone, somewhere is going to help themselves to your hard work. Granted, many bloggers do not understand that taking something they found online and posting it on their own site [...]