After going to a total of three weeks of art camp this past summer, all of which were devoted to flameworking, I came home and bought a...

A few months ago, I joined a group called The Loose Bead Society of Milwaukee.  They meet monthly at the New Berlin Library and talk...

I really love working with glass and making beads and such.  A very complimentary skill is to learn how to do metalworking, so I have...

In September, I was lucky to have signed up for a class in glass fusing as part of KBW Glass Art Foundations’ “GEM V” event.   The event...

This was the second of two residential craft classes I went to in the summer of 2023. I am apparently now an Art Camp kind of person. ...

After taking a two-week residential class in June, and knowing I was taking a one-week residential class in August, I hadn’t really...

Now that I have been at Penland School of Crafts, I feel kind of embarrassed for how I ended up there. In early 2023, I was thinking...

Ever since I started my monthly class quest, I have been wanting to take a class at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point. I finally got my...

Sometimes, I have very clear ideas of what I want to craft, but most of the time, I see something random on Etsy or TikTok, and suddenly,...

I have given myself this goal of taking a class at least once a month, or at least learning a new thing. In March, I DID do the paper...

This “craft” came up one day because I said something to a friend of mine similar to “I have no idea what to do with all of these paper...

I have no idea what got in my head in early February, but I found myself at the local Rockler store with a wood burning kit in my hands. ...

My son really likes candles. He also likes to be environmentally conscious, and was wondering how to make his own candles – in part, to...

In September 2022, my basement flooded, and due to the water damage, there was a LOT of work done in the basement, finishing in January...

A few weeks before this event, one of my 8 sisters, Jennifer, was at a resale shop and found a couple of bolts of fleece with a breast...

Back in September, there was a heavy rainstorm, and my basement was flooded. The carpet and drywall came out, and for a few months, it...

If you read the October 2022 post, you will know that I got “hooked” on using a circular knitting machine that I bought online. I have...

I freely admit that I had been watching waaaay too many TikTok videos prior to October 2022. I got intrigued by a knitting machine, so I...

This class was a splurge for me. I had been looking for a stained-glass class, and wasn’t able to find one locally, so I opted for a...

For August, I wanted to go somewhere, and do a class close to my birthday. I had heard of The Clearing Folk School in Door County and...