Y’all, I had so much ambition this summer. We took a glorious road trip as a family, and I packed up soooooo much yarn to make soooooo many dolls. I had plans to make forty-two. FORTY-TWO!! Well, I may have made all the shoes and tutus for them, but only…
Wow, sixty dolls. I have now made sixty dancers – many different hairstyles, a variety of skin tones, unique limbs, culturally expansive… SIXTY DOLLS! I initially started this project because, as a refugee foster mom, I noticed how easily we could find pale-skinned dolls at stores, but not many that…
I had the weirdest shopping list for a while: I was on a quest for Jesus-Colored-Yarn. Each store I stopped into over several weeks, I would peruse their craft aisle, or several yarn aisles, all in the name of Baby Jesus’ sweetly colored skin. I can’t be the only one…
Wow. I was not expecting such a big response to my first round of dolls. My Etsy shop actually crashed when I launched my first twenty-one dolls because so many people tried to get dolls when they went live! Thank you for your encouragement with this project, to the many…
For my über nerdy crochet friends out there, here are all the details of my hella cool dancers I’ve been working on. Below I share the types of yarns I used, other materials, and then at the bottom of this post you’ll find links to each one of the dancer’s…
Our very first foster child loved to play with baby dolls. And as I watched them playing with the pale-skinned, blue-eyed baby doll that we had on hand, I thought to myself, “Whoa, that doll looks nothing like them.” So I went on a quest: to find a baby doll…
Ever grow tired of your kids being cold because a draft runs down the top of their coat? But do you also struggle with traditional scarves that get wrapped too tightly, or slide off because they weren’t placed properly as your kids go off and play? This was the thought…
I can’t paint and therefore use yarn to make canvas art. To add some cool art pieces to my kids’ bedrooms, I made these crochet-on-canvas pieces. The peacock I created was SO FUN that I thought I would share the process and pattern! The cool thing is you don’t have…
You can’t be unaware of essential oils. They smell good, they enhance so many things, and as I’m getting the vibe from some of my “oily friends”, they can be part of a healthy lifestyle. Confession: I’m like 3% educated about essential oils, but from the four or five…
The world is currently in the largest refugee crisis. Ever. With the war in Syria, it is estimated that 4.9 million people have been displaced from that region alone (this doesn’t include those displaced from other conflicts!) It’s overwhelming, and it’s hard to know where to start to lend help. There…