Call me crazy, but I actually don’t like pepperoni pizza, or even pepperoni itself. My first ever post on this website was about making homemade pizza from scratch. So when I saw someone making pizza waffles with pepperoni, I knew I had to make them my way. These aren’t the simple pizza waffles – these are sophisticated, and can be tailored to whatever ingredients you like. Continue reading “Sophisticated Pizza Waffles”
I got a mandoline slicer a while back and really wanted to try to do something fancy with it. I have seen flowers made out of fruit, so I figured that would be a great first step. I don’t really like the standard hyper sweet cakes, so I decided to make a fruity cake that was more naturally sweet. Continue reading “Fruit Flower Cake”
When I was pregnant with Z, my manager at that time was two months ahead of me, and we ended up having overlapping maternity leave. That must have been fun for the team! I usually make baby gifts before the babies are born, but since I was in the same boat at the time, I ended up making this a bit later. I had some baby yarn that I wasn’t sure what to do with, and it seemed like the perfect yarn for the project. Little did I know that they had decorated their nursery in Minnesota Vikings colors, so this was the perfect color scheme!
This lovely set of baby blankets was made for someone at work when she was expecting twins. Their nursery colors were grey and pink, so that’s where the colors came from. I think it ended up being a really nice color combination. I wasn’t sure what to make when I first went to the store for yarn, but when I found this blanket yarn that was amazingly soft and fluffy, I knew it had to be blankets.
Baby hats are one of the easiest items to knit or crochet. They are small, so you get instant gratification of a finished project. And they are a great way to use up small-ish leftovers of yarn. They are also so incredibly satisfying because you are making something for tiny, adorable, helpless creatures.
I had a lot of yarn in baby colors that I did not need anymore and also some leftovers of soft yarns that were too small for most other things, so I thought baby hats was the perfect solution to both conundrums. I set up a small friendly competition in my local knitting group to see who can knit the most hats, but mostly to give me some motivation. It proved to be quite effective since I ended up making 30+ baby hats in just one month!
We have an awesome weekly meeting at work where we discuss technical issues that arise, make decisions on implementation, and make lots of inside jokes and generally have a good time because we work with awesome people. It’s my favorite meeting of the week – yes, there can be such a thing!
The previous long-time chair of this meeting used a wooden gavel when decisions were made, and since he had to pass on the honors to someone else recently, we needed a new gavel. I wanted to knit the new gavel so that it wouldn’t be so noisy. We also had a thing about each person on the team being assigned a superhero identity, so since the new chair was Thor, the choice for a new gavel was obvious. Continue reading “Crocheted Thor’s Hammer”
With anything that people do, there are obvious and more subtle reasons behind those actions. The same is true for why I choose to donate things I knit and crochet.
I will put this at the top because it’s the primary, and most obvious, reason.
I have always argued that if everyone did more for others than they did for themselves, the world would be a happier place since we would collectively receive more than we could ever give ourselves because of the different talents people have. So I do my part to make this type of world a reality.
I wanted a really quick project with bulky yarn and have been eyeing an idea I found that incorporated cables in the front and looked like it would be great over a collared shirt for work. It took a little while to find the right yarn, but I finally found this sparkly blue one that seemed perfect.
Continue reading “Sophisticated Twist Bulky Blue Cardigan”
It’s that time of the year again! When the weather is getting warmer and it’s time to celebrate the planet that gives us life, it’s also a great time to get the kids together for some play time.
A few years ago, I came across some dirt and plant themed food like mud cake with jello worms and chocolate cupcakes with green grass frosting, and I thought it would be great to make for J. But it seemed like it would be too much for just him, so I thought it would be a cool idea to invite some of his friends on a play date. A themed play date. An Earth Day play date.
Continue reading “Earth Day Play Date Invite (Printable)”
As you know, I don’t like my kids adding to the candy rush on Valentine’s Day, so I keep thinking of creative ways to do valentines for the kids that don’t involve sugary sweets and boring superhero cards that are thrown away.
For all the kids that love dinosaurs, this will be really fun to make, as well as hand out on Valentine’s Day. When we did this, my son was obsessed, so he had a blast. I found adorable free Friendasaurus printables from Alice & Lois, but instead of buying plastic dinosaurs, we decided to make our own out of clay.
Continue reading “Friendasaurus Clay Valentines for Kids”