craft + activism = craftivism.

I grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and spent a good half hour every Christmas holiday with the bears above, watching them sing their songs at the mall. As this was in the early 80s, these bears were super cool because they were better than the band at Chuck E. Cheese. I had the pleasure [...]

Sometimes it’s good to ride in the countryside. The other weekend we came across Shangri-La in Prospect Hill, North Carolina while we were delivering cupcakes to a wedding at a firehouse. It was the best thing to discover on an otherwise slate-free Saturday afternoon. We spent the next 45 minutes wandering around this little tiny [...]

1. Coffee at my new favorite coffee shop Morning Times 2. Knitting with nostalgia 3. Why taking a photo pre-party is a much better idea than post-party This week has been a pretty normal week, good news, bad news, work, play, tea, knitting. After a few nervous days, there has been movement from hospital to [...]

I wish I was having the above evening right now. The evening where I cooked dinner with friends (who are in massage therapy school and made me able to turn my neck to the right again after sleeping weird), ate homemade apple crisp, played a game, and drank hot chocolate prepared by an ex-barista. Instead, [...]

As I was winding down from the day, I went to make a cup of bedtime tea. It’s starting to get really cold at night here in North Carolina, which means that nighttime tea is practically mandatory before going to sleep. Tonight’s tea was extra wonderful as considering what I wrote about yesterday, I found [...]