Crafting Happiness, One Day at a Time
Good morning! Somehow it's the middle of July already, which means triple-digit weather in Texas. My afternoon runs are completed very slowly 🙂 Keeping busy over here. The same day I made my last post, my husband got a job offer. We were over the moon! It was to a really cool city. We purchased… Continue reading A Quick (?) Respite Post
The theme for this summer, I'm finding, is definitely patience. Patience isn't something that comes to me naturally, but it's a skill I am working on honing. Sometimes it's difficult to live in the moment and let things unfold naturally. I want my PE certification already, I want to level up with skills at work,… Continue reading Patience
Hello everyone, hope you're having a great Sunday. It's been a pretty busy month in our little household. Fortunately most of it has pretty minor. My dog did get sick about two weeks ago with hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. This can be fatal if left untreated, so we are so lucky we got Apollo the treatment he… Continue reading Crafty Summer Updates
A friend of mine invited my husband and me to a Geeks Who Drink trivia night last Tuesday. We'd only played once, back in 2012 in our hometown, with a group of friends and my brother. We won that night, and split our prize with a person playing by herself, Tracey Individual. While we had… Continue reading Trivia Night
Do you ever hear a song that reminds you of your past, with such force that you feel like you've returned to a version of your younger self? My friends call this phenomenon a "mental flavor," an audible trigger that briefly transports you back in time. It happened to me several weeks ago, when I… Continue reading A Cozy Bird Original – “Dreamers” Embroidery Piece
As I was pinning a pattern and cutting fabric last weekend, I asked myself, how this would feel if I was the dressmaker for Meghan Markle's wedding gown? I find cutting fabric to be a daunting task, even for my small makes, so I can't imagine what it would feel like to be cutting fabric… Continue reading Still Scared of Sewing
We live in a success-driven society, and I find myself falling right in line with its expectations. I work hard at my job; I exercise; I try to cook healthy dinners at night with my husband (I don't like cooking, but my craving for home-cooked meals wins); I have a multitude of crafty projects I… Continue reading The Tonic of Self-Care
