Hello, my name is Hapi. Michele has been nice enough to share a little bit of her blog with me and let me make some of my own posts. While I don’t know what I’m going to talk about, I do know that I’m a very pretty girl. Well, at least that’s what Michele and [...]
I have often told people that with enough trial and error I can pretty much crochet any stuffed shape I see. So, it is more than a bit ironic that I am having so much trouble duplicating one of my own designs. I even took notes the first time. And yet, like Charlie Brown, I [...]
For one of our kitties, her favorite toy is a little finger puppet with a stuffed head and floppy ears. She throws it around and loves pushing under our TV stand and then digging it back out. Not to be outdone by a child’s toy; I thought I could certainly make up something she would [...]
I remember somewhere in the distant past, when I was still in high school, that kids were making and exchanging friendship bracelets as a colorful and quirky way to express their fondness for each other. 30 months ago, I happened upon a wonderful website and forum dedicated to making friendship bracelets. The creator had patterns [...]
Easter Sunday in Western North Carolina was a glorious day. The weather has been quite unpredictable here this spring. It’s normal for this area to see a last gasp of wintry weather in April. But, this year has been a mix of terribly dull, dreary gray days – some rainy, others just looking like it [...]
There’s often very little news after a major natural disaster that makes you smile but one story amid the ruins of the town of Tempera Italy certainly made me smile. Trapped after her own house collapsed upon her, one 98-year-old woman found herself with nothing but time as she waited to either be rescued or [...]