…while I'm making things…
I admit that I sometimes try to take the easy route. I saw a sweater online that looked super cute and I was like, well...it doesn't cost much. I'll just buy it. The reality, though, is that the garment never ends up looking like the picture or being what I actually want. This happened to… Continue reading I Can Make That
In my last post I hinted of things to come...well, I'm excited to say that those things are here. Today marks the official launch of Beettle & Blossom, the Etsy shop where I will offer my creations. (Here's the link: https://beettleandblossom.etsy.com. Click it. I dare you.) The Magnolia Crop Top I've always wanted to design… Continue reading Speaking of New Years Resolutions…
This will be my last post of 2023. What a year! As we head into a new year with new challenges and triumphs, I'm not so much making new year's resolutions as new year's goals. I have many things I hope to achieve in 2024, and one of them involves copious amounts of knitting and… Continue reading Crafting the Holiday Season
It's been a hard couple of years, guys. We lost my mom at the end of '21, and along with her I lost a piece of myself that I am working to heal. At least I know I have the things she taught me, so in that way she will always be with me. My… Continue reading Back To It
Calatheas are the needy little sisters of the plant world. Not enough moisture? I die. Not filtered water? I die. You breathed on me? I die. A bad photo of my lancifolia shortly after I brought it home. What a beauty, right? I've always had trouble with growing calatheas, which always made me very sad… Continue reading Calatheas: The plant problem children
Several years ago my sister gifted me with a purple tradescantia plant. It was small, only two or three branches that were about five or six inches long. It grew quickly, and within the first few months it stretched its arms and slowly began taking over my desk. I had several nicknames for this life-loving… Continue reading Evolution Of A Tradescantia
As you know, I've been working on this crocheted blanket for quite some time now. It is a project that I am actually quite excited to complete. There has been, however, another small roadblock to me finishing the blanket. My sister called and asked me to virtually do a quilt along with her. Of course,… Continue reading Project Quilt
On this next episode of the Shady Apartment...It's all about ZZ plants! There are actually a lot of plants that are purported to be good for low-light environments. Many of these don't actually thrive in very low-light conditions, becoming rather leggy, lengthy, stretched out versions of what they could be with proper light. So if… Continue reading So Many ZZZ’s
I intended to write this next post about a craft. I spent the majority of my childhood learning new crafts, raising goats, reading and learning to write. (Those are the perks of being home schooled on a farm; you can navigate yourself into having plenty of time to do the things you actually want to… Continue reading The Blanket, Among Other Things
In Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins makes a full-circle journey home to the Shire after a long adventure. Many such journeys exist in this world, leading down all sorts of paths. Sometimes, even plants experience a long journey. Not to give out spoilers, but that journey is not always an idyllic one. For those who… Continue reading There and Back Again: A Plant’s Unwitting Tale of Rise and Decline
Laughing At Myself In An Empty Room 