Welcome.

Hello, and welcome. I'm Kate - mom to a toddler boy & wife to a police officer. I manager our household and work as a full time marketing manager.

In addition to the frenetic day-to-day  - I try to make time for a little craftiness each day.

Knitting. Papercraft. Sewing. Cooking. Creating.

Largely, I knit. It's my first creative & crafting love -It centers & calms me, feeling the yarn slip through my fingers and the needles warm in my hands - while a beautiful fabric is born.

My grandmother taught me when I was about seven years old. I remember the grape purple, acrylic worsted on the Susan Bates green size 10 needles like it was yesterday. I remember where we sat. My grandmother still knits, and I will forever carry with me a piece of her in my knitting.

My knitting -  my craft, is primarily about creating. Making something with my two hands offers a moment of peace in a busy day. And in my own little way fights the current climate of want and consumption.

Craft is inherently green ... making for yourself or others what you'd otherwise buy ... reusing what you'd otherwise throw away ...

Maybe that's why I'm a hoarder? Keeping every scrap of ribbon and paper that might one day be used in a future craft. Making what I could buy - even when the purchased may have been nicer.

As my son grows and we consider a second child, I worry and wonder about what we're teaching our children. How easy it is to buy something new, replace what we could fix or reuse - buy buy buy ... consume consume consume.

Maybe we should craft instead?

So, here are my stories - a little bit of craft - a little bit of green - sewn into busy days and nights. Maybe leaving things just a little bit better than I found them?