The Burden of Blessings
This week we got new carpet in the bedrooms. Awesome. I have been wanting to do this for seven years and as it happened I lost it a teeny bit. I like my world organized and in order at all times unless...
View ArticlePlaying Catch Up
I've spent all morning attempting to list bracelets and such and last minute decided to have a flash sale! Now through 8pm central time tonight take 20 percent off with code COLUMBUS. Woo hoo!P.S. If...
View ArticlePortable Doll House Project
Have a ridiculously large stash of fabric like I do? Then this project is for you. My friend Katie sent me this picture from Pinterest originally from laetibricoleici.canalblog.com:Immediately I was...
View ArticleGood Things To Come
I just have to show off my new yarn order. I'm swooning over the color and textures and have many projects fighting for space in my brain.Today I finally got around to listing these:All three of which...
View ArticleThe In between
I wrote this post yesterday and today was a little bit better. Not so tragic and chore filled as yesterday. I decided to post this anyway since I have a sneaking suspicion that other moms go through...
View ArticleI Hate to Cook
I hate to cook. Hate it. I also feel great shame about not cooking. Like not only am I a bad mother and wife but fundamentally I am a crappy human being due to the fact that in matters of food I shut...
View ArticleLatest works and a sale!
To celebrate election day take 15% off through Friday with code VOTINGROCKS. This will be the last sale of the year so go shop!
View ArticleAnd I now wear glasses....
I'm feeling really old and dorky and Poppy shouted out, "MOM you look like a teacher!" when she first saw me. Charlie just laughed and the big girls tell me I look weird. I feel like I'm playing...
View ArticleSleepy newborn pictures sorta make me want another one.....
Then I remember that having a newborn also means excessive sweating, sleepless nights, hormones from hell and an eye twitch and so I settle for making newborn hats. But that's just me. Here is the...
View ArticleAbout Ruby
Ruby just turned seven. When I think of Ruby I think of these things. Her laugh, it rings, it peals out unfettered like music. When all of the sudden she could READ. Her insistence that all things must...
View ArticleLittle House
All of the sudden my house is small. Really small. Like the little mouse door in the baseboard you see on old cartoons. Our house could fit in there along with the cheese and the bed made of a match...
View ArticleMaking things is sort of like breathing.
I have not gone more than a few days without making something since I can remember. Thank God for Etsy and for people who like what I make or I'd be up to my eyeballs in hats, headbands and jewelry....
View ArticleToday is Hard
Today is hard. A different kind of hard than this weekend where I wept and lost sleep and felt sick over the Sandy Hook shootings. Today three of my children are in school. I'm sure this morning was...
View Article9 YEARS
Dear Sam,You are the handsomest, funniest, patientest, husband in the whole world. You are my best friend. In the last 3,285 days there has never been one second that I haven't been grateful to be...
View ArticleS A L E
Dear blog readers,I am clearing out the shop to make room for new designs! Use code WINTER for 25% off everything!Love Greta
View ArticleWisdom From Ruby Age 7
"No matter how you look God does not care because he loves you always."
View ArticleFun With Depression
I haven't been writing because I have been at war/in denial/pissed off/mostly crying with depression. Which sucks in case you are unfamiliar with it. I think for the last few months I have been trying...
View ArticleMaybe a Kardashian
With a thank you to modern medicine I have semi-clawed my way up to the surface. I think I am breathing normally. Maybe. Little things are coming back. Like how children are HILARIOUS. Especially Poppy...
View ArticleBack Online Sale
To celebrate getting back to writing and crafting I'm having an sale! Twenty percent off in the gremadcha shop with code SPRING. I've got some new bracelet sets and various other delights new in the...
View ArticleFinding God Again
Since this whole depression thing I have been struggling with God. Where was He? Why didn't it go away when I called out in anguish to Him? By the way this is a heavy post but I'm hoping the title...
View ArticleUpdate
This shall be an awkward sort of update post. I cut my bangs, myself, last night in the bathroom mirror. My baby turned NINE. I realized all of my four children are right handed an affront to my left...
View ArticleArticle 0
In retrospect bangs may not have been the best idea. I cut them too short to even push to the side with a bobby pin. I am 36. I should know better. On to Poppy. She is me as a child times a thousand....
View ArticleVacation
Probably the best vacation of my life. Southern Missouri is beautiful and glorious and super fun. Plus we got to go with family and friends! I don't think my kids complained or fought the entire week...
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