Today was my turn to drive on the Yarn Discovery Tour (no time to knit in the car! Boo!). We visited Pepper Pike, Cleveland, Chardon, Chagri...

That's right - my friend and I hit 3 stores, I visited 1 after I dropped her off, and I went to 2 more with LazyKid. The West Side is do...

I'm pleased to announce that this year River Colors Studio will be offering two exclusive Lazy Mama patterns as giveaways during the Yar...

This week we're working with pencils. We've checked out 8 billion books about manga, comics, colored pencil techniques, botanical il...

Rolled paper beads, courtesy of one page of a Penzey's catalog, some glue, and some sparkly but clear nail polish. We'll string them...

In an effort to keep from going crazy this summer, LazyKid and I have planned out 11 weeks of art projects to try. This week's focus i...

Before: After: (not pictured: me collapsed in a heap on the couch afterwards)

Lazy Kid's birthday is coming up this weekend, and we decided it was time for her to have a bit more "grown up" looking room....

Before and after shots from this week's kitchen cleanup. Order of photos will be wacky until I can edit this post at home tonight, but y...

We finally had a snowy Saturday when I could devote the day to futzing around with the dollhouse kit I'm building. It's a frustratin...

It all started when I tried making the Biryani Shawl, designed by MMario ( Ravelry link ).  I liked how the stacked yarnovers made an intere...

When LazyKid wanted a pair of plain socks out of solid colored worsted weight yarn, I finally had an excuse to try an unnecessarily complex ...

This year I decided to pull the mermaid costume listings from my etsy shop so that I could concentrate on training my intern on the finer po...

... all the live-long day (on Tuesdays and Thursdays while LazyKid is at school) I've been working at the yarn store Trying to put some ...

Okay, so my " potato condo " is actually a collapsible yard waste bin from Target, and about four bags of potting soil ... Who ...

My most recent attempt to use up scrap sock yarn generated a lot of interest, both in the Muggle public and at sit-and-knit at my local yarn...

A lot of people love the look of traditional rag rugs, but they're not thrilled with the idea of having to sew together miles and miles ...

We're having a garage sale today, and I figured that since I had a captive audience anyway, I'd try to convince them to Gsee things ...

My craftiness has been channeled into our new patio room, where I have traded my knitting needles for a hammer and some panel adhesive ... ...

A few weeks ago I taught a beginning crochet class at River Colors, and my student caught onto things so quickly that we had time to get in...