On the Needles

My knitting experience is so rocky. As a hooker I find myself feeling like I’m cheating on my craft whenever I pull our knitting needles. I realize these are two different crafts but well, it’s me. So I’ve been picking up needles, putting them down, picking them up, putting them, well ya know. In an attempt to get crafty I’ve…

Fresh locs

I finally washed my hair again and EWW!Without going into the usual rants and whines about me doing not wanting to do my hair (that is implied) I decided to do a rinse using a tutorial I found on Francesca aka chescaleigh’s blog.Aside…if you loc and are looking for hair ideas, check her out! She has amazing tutorials that seem…

Get Crafty!

March is craft month and for me, my go to craft is crochet. In the past I’ve used March as a month to play crochet catch up but this year I’ve decided to expand my craftiness with a little help from my favorite new obsession, Pinterest. This month I’m going stop pinning and start doing and have some fun! Stay…

March 1st: Off the hooks…

My go to craft is crochet and I’ve been futzing around with a hat for a work friend. I swear my hooks have turned against me! I have been faithfully following patterns almost to the point of compulsion. In spite of this my hats have been a bit too small. Ok. Very small. Luckily I have a score of little…

How to Seuss When You Don’t Want To

Or: It’s Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. Big Deal. I am probably committing six forms of literary blasphemy but I’ll say it anyway: Dr. Seuss is highly overrated. His books are way too long for read alouds, not as whimsical as they assume they are and quite frankly, and my own Rachee thing, they always scare the crap out of me. Shudder! If I had…