Craftiness Simple Valentines for School With Valentine's Day approaching I figured I'd share what I did for my girls' Valentine's Day last year. Plus I'm sharing our final printable with you.
Ginger Lab Creating “Ginger” Our Ginger Beer Bottle Over Christmas I ordered the most adorable Ginger person bottle from Ginger Labs and I couldn't just pack her away with my winter stuff... and that's how "Ginger" was added to the family and given a bit of color. Come check it out!
Update: Which Version of the reMarkable’s Templates Are Emailed Out? Back during the summer of 2022 I tested which image type was used when you export or view a reMarkable notebook page. Recently, I redid the experiment and found the results had changed. Here they are!
52 Weeks Sewing Challenge My Sews in 2023: Infrequent but There When I Wanted It Over the last several years I've posted a sewing roundup. This year is no different so here are the more infrequent but still loved projects I've sewn in 2023.
Book My Favorite Books From My 2023 Reads I’ve been meaning to review my favorite fictional books for a while and figured no time like the present. Come check out my favorite reads from the past year and maybe you'll find a new favorite too!
SwiftData SwiftData: Solving Fatal Errors and EXC_BAD_ACCESS While Handling Entities on Different Threads I've recently switched the app I've been coding from CoreData to SwiftData and, once I sped up some backend code using concurrency, came across an issue where my code kept crashing when creating new entities. Here is how I solved both my fatal and bad access errors!
SwiftData SwiftData: Solving Filtering by an Entity in the Predicate With SwiftData announced I realized now is the best time to convert my data over. That said, it wasn't without its issues and I found filtering by an entity relationship was, for me, one of the biggest blockers. Here's how I solved it!
Science & Sensory Play Simple and Adorable Snow People Sensory Kit For a friend's gift two years ago I came up with a quick play dough sensory kit featuring snow people and made extra for my own kids. We loved the premise and I figured I had to share it with you in case you're looking for something similar for yourself or as a gift too.
Hiking Cascade Pass Trail in the North Cascades National Park A photo collage of my hike back in September on the Cascade Pass Trail within the North Cascades National Park. Click here to check it out!
Craftiness Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: Costumed Hairstyle Ideas: Spider Last year I made an adorably cute spider on my head that my girls absolutely adored! I had to share it with you in case you're looking for a last minute costume idea.
Sewing Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: Ada's Carmen Sandiego Last year Ada knew early on that she wanted to be Carmen Sandiego for Halloween and she didn't waver so when I decided to tackle costumes I knew that I needed to make it happen. Here's what I did to turn her into Carmen!
Craftiness Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: How I Made a Custom Carmen Sandiego Necklace For Halloween last year Ada wanted to be Carmen Sandiego. I knew immediately that I needed to figure out her distinctive necklace (along with her red jacket and hat) to truly make the costume apparent. Here's how I made the necklace!
Sewing Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: Zoey's Black Cat Last year when I asked the kids what they wanted to be for Halloween Zoey thought about it for a second and then immediately told me a black cat. I'm so glad she did as I absolutely adored how her costume turned out! Check it out here.
Contest Entry My Past Design in the Giboard Contest I've entered the Giboard Design Contest and would love to win and see my design as reality. Please vote especially if you want this design too.
Sewing Our Amazing Halloween Costumes: How I Made a Custom Cat Tail For Halloween last year Zoey wanted to be a black cat. To pull off the costume I knew we needed to include a proper cat tail. This is how I made it!
Hiking Tolmie Peak Trail on Mount Rainier/Tahoma A photo collage of my hike on Tolmie Peak Trail within the Mount Rainier National Park.
Craftiness Ada and Zoey's Joint Birthday Party This year had planned to do a long distance move during the summer which led to the kids having a joint birthday party. Here's what we did while planning our move.
Food & Dessert Our Simply Delicious Brownie Angel Food Cupcakes This year we chose to combine the girls' birthday party together which led to this extremely simple and novel brownie and angel food cupcake combo. Come check it out!
Craftiness How I Made Our Slime Party Favors For the girls birthday I wanted a simple party favor that looked great and used stuff I had on hand. These slime party favors turned out perfect! Come check out how I put it together.
Craftiness How to Order Individual Parts and Find Instructions to Make a Retired LEGO® Kit A while back I recreated a couple of retired LEGO® sets by buying the individual parts. I wanted to share my process in case it can help you too.
Technology Quickly Create App Icons by Resizing Your Main Image With a Bash Script While resizing an image I chose to use for my app icon I quickly recognized how onerous the entire process was. This lead to me creating a Bash script which dramatically sped up my workflow and may help yours too. Check it out here!
Sewing How I Made Our Quick and Simple Luggage Tag Over the Christmas holidays we went on a flight and I realized we needed something to make our Costco circa 2022 suitcase stand out from all the other suitcases. This is the quick and extremely simple luggage tag I sewed up to make that happen.
Craftiness Zoey's Great Mismatched Me Hairstyle The kids don't often let me do their hair so when Zoey talked about a hairstyle for "Mismatched Me" I jumped on it. Here's what we did.
Food & Dessert Ada’s Exciting Eighth Birthday Party at Home Like with Zoey's party last summer we decided to also host Ada's party at our home. Here's what we ended up doing!
Miscellaneous Welcome... And a Quick Word on My Website Migration Quick note on my website migration. Welcome!
