What’s not to admire about the gorgeous Conqueror Virtual Challenge medals and and official wooden honeycomb display sold on their website? Of course I want the medal display, after so many years and so many in-person marathon (half-marathon) medals that I’ve been challenged to display. Turns out that there are plenty of Etsy options, too:…
Category: Crafting Lately
Crafting lately: Yoto card binder
My sister can be so thoughtful when it comes to gifts. She’s also more like my mother in practically sparing no expense when it comes to educational tools for her kid(s). My mum got us all sorts of gadgets for learning spelling and reading. We had the classic 1980s Speak & Spell game, several electronic…
Crafting lately: name initial door craft
As it happens with the second child, you draw parallels in their development and try to be as fair as possible to both children. You’re going to find me finding the fun – through crafts and photos – acknowledging these two. Since we knew the name a few months before she was born, I was…
Crafting lately: alphabet blocks
Boy, does it seem like a challenge to get simple alphabet blocks these days. I’d love to have my vintage set – unless it’s a fake memory that I had one – but it’s long gone, handed to family friends with kids or something. You can get real vintage sets from Etsy/Ebay but I don’t…
Crafting lately: clothing/closet dividers
Four years ago, I was in constant discomfort due to pregnancy-related carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). I don’t quite remember if it started as early as 20 weeks and lasted until the very end, starting with just one hand and then the other. That period coincided with my discovery of Perler crafts and when I did…
Crafting lately: A mini house!
Timeline of events: Late December: purchased and received the Cuisinart Combo Steam Plus Convection Oven on Boxing Day sales Early April: finally opened the open and set up the oven Early May: sold the convection oven that this one replaced Late July: blogging about crafting the mini-house back in early April! Once I opened the…
Crafting lately: Rainbow wooden rocking chair
I checked back in my finances tracking spreadsheet and realized I purchased this plain pine kids rocking chair from Michael’s back in March 2017. I paid $37 (taxes in) and justified it against the $40 pricetag of the IKEA Sundvik that I could personalize it…. Fast forward over a year >>>> A few months ago,…
Crafting lately: hacked the Ikea LÄTT
As with so many things I didn’t craft this particularly lately. The Instagram post below is from over six months ago! We didn’t get a bed from Ikea this past weekend – here’s hoping for next weekend! – but it was high time I did something about E’s play table and chairs that has been…
It’s…. Advent Calendar season again!
Better late than never …! **** For the kid I went store-bought. In the middle of September, I spied this gem at Chapters – Playmobil Christmas on the Farm edition. So, by the end of September, I had ordered this. E will have fun opening the compartment every day – except when we are away for…
Crafting lately: Halloween 2017
In a quick look back on E’s first two Halloweens: In 2015, I made three-month old E a lion costume. In 2016, I bought a Carter’s panda hoodie and made a science/medical officer long-sleeve top that matched my science/medical officer sheath. It felt redundant and infantile to get another Carter’s hoodie costume. E could fit…