Crafting Coziness, One Stitch at a Time

First off, the painting I'm working on! It's in that stage where you wonder what the hell you're doing because what even is this? You gotta trust the process and push through the weird stage. I worked on it a bit last night between a volunteer project and dinner. It looks like I'll have some leftover paint and rather than waste it, I'm wondering what I can create with the remnants. I'm terribly distracted with everything, to be honest. The loss of our cat, what's going on wit

As I write this I'll have you know that I am sitting outside with a hot drink, in many layers, and wrapped up in my electric blanket. But I am determined to be outside, damnit! It's unseasonably warm but not sunny so therefore I'm cold. I did manage to spill some of my coffee on the way out here which led to me uttering a string of obscenities that would make a sailor blush. I bought this paint-by-number kit it 2024 at Michaels and then we started looking at houses and I neve

Back in October our cat, Lulu, was diagnosed with cancer. I talked about it some in this post . We had another 6 pretty good weeks from the time we found out about her cancer. The last couple of weeks she was still in good spirits - she was underfoot and involved in our daily lives. She'd come greet us when we returned home from being gone for an errand. She kept up her daily routines, but she wasn't eating much, or at least not consistently. We were trying everything. All th