I’ve been writing articles for websites since 1999. In the last 3 or 4 years my writing has been mostly limited to craft tutorials, recipes and blog posts with an occasional article here and there. That’s when I realized how much I actually missed writing. Not just writing about anything, but rather about my hands [...]

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I have worked from home for over 14 years now. After high school my dad couldn’t afford to send me to college, so I applied for a job at a local savings & loan and became a full time teller when I was 18. From there I moved my way up from bank teller to [...]

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It’s been almost a year since I started contributing monthly to the Make and Takes website run by the amazing Marie LeBaron, author of . You will find me over at Make and Takes the first Monday of each month sharing a craft tutorial for kids. Marie was kind enough to spotlight me recently and [...]

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Today was the debut of my monthly craft show on TheMotherhood. I will appear once a month, each month demonstrating a seasonal or holiday specific project that moms can make with their kids. For February’s show I talked about how you can adjust one craft for all different age groups, and focused mostly on these [...]

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