craftydabbler

I was sitting in the car with the window open when I felt something fall down my blouse.  It was a lady bug.  Her legs were tight up agains...

For the first time ever, I made homemade pasta.  I was inspired by a post on the blog SouleMama .  I then looked around online and watched a...

Thumb in the thumb place, Fingers all together, This is the song We sing in mitten weather. Basic Mitten pattern from Knitting for Peace. K...

Ok, so last night I started watching the second season of Dexter on Netflix . I kept watching, and watching, and watching, and finished th...

I was reading the blog Wisdom of the Moon and saw that she had interviewed her child about her parents. I thought it might be fun for Fath...

My first peony blossom.

Building near the elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo Today I am feeling crabby. I have that pushed and pulled in many directions feeling. ...

I'm cheating and reposting a Facebook meme. Everyone who reads this is tagged! 1. I attended 14 schools between Kindergarten and high s...

Crafty Crow is fun to read. Go comment and you can have a chance to win a subscription to this cute Book of Days published by the family ...

It was so beautiful.

We went to Paris in 2002. I've been looking through old pictures. The picture of the sculpture Winged Victory of Samothrace was also ...

I was talking with someone the other day about the health of a close, aging relative who has actively ignored his mental health resulting in...

One of the gifts I gave Fiona for Christmas was a book of poems by Langston Hughes. It is called Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes ....

We had so much snow over Solstice and Christmas. This is only the second white holiday season of my life. The last one was last year. Cra...

My husband, Fiona and I watched Obama's speech from Chicago. I cried. Fiona will grow up with him as the first president she remembers...

My husband asked me a few days ago what I wanted for my birthday. I told him yoga lessons. I found a place that will be perfect, but they ...

Oh, yeah, this blog is called craftydabbler. Here is the long story, uh, long (interspersed with creative commons pictures from flickr tha...

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. –Goethe Thank you Jen Lemen .

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full ...

My neighbor across the street had just finished pressure washing her aggregate driveway when I got home from an errand. I stopped to say he...