<p>Spontaneous sewing. It happens. Suddenly, you have an idea for a thing and you have to put everything on pause until that project is done. This time, it was a bag, a laptop bag. I&#8217;ve never made a bag before, really, so I&#8217;m not sure why I was so certain I could pull it off. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When we moved into this house, it immediately felt homier than any other we&#8217;d shared. But it was also in need of the most work. As I think about it, that&#8217;s probably why I liked it immediately&#8211;it needed me and I needed it. I needed its high ceilings, its rooms full of uneven wood floors, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Garrett the Husband decided to make me some homemade valentines this year. I have a fondness for those cheesy, almost nonsensical vintage ones, with the puns that don&#8217;t really mean anything. And if there&#8217;s one thing he&#8217;s good at, it&#8217;s hilarious nonsense. I&#8217;m pretty sure he could make a living at it if someone would [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I started this quilt in an effort to preserve my sanity. I really needed to pour myself into a non-work-related project, and one day I suddenly decided that a quilt was the medicine I needed. The fact that I had never made one wasn&#8217;t going to stop me. One great thing about quilts is that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This weekend, two of our best friends got married on a hillside. At the rehearsal, the weather was chilly, windy, and a dense fog hung over the mountains. But on the day of the wedding, the sun shone and a breeze wafted gently through the trees. They couldn&#8217;t have planned it better. Our friends are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; Typically, typewriters and glue need to stay as far apart as possible. Unless your typewriter came out of Life magazine and your glue is Mod Podge, then you&#8217;re probably okay. I was feeling the urge to create a couple of weeks ago and started rummaging through my house to find the right combination of what-nots [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This bingo card is one of the first things I see every day. That is, once I&#8217;ve woken up a bit&#8230; which is usually after I&#8217;ve made it to work. This card is also the first piece of decor I hung in my office. I get fairly frequent questions about its significance, but there isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>