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The Dancing Continues: Dancer Dolls 41-60

The Dancing Continues: Dancer Dolls 41-60

Wow, sixty dolls. I have now made sixty dancers – many different hairstyles, a variety of skin tones, unique limbs, culturally expansive… SIXTY DOLLS! I initially started this project because, as a refugee foster mom, I noticed how easily we could find pale-skinned dolls at stores, but not many that…

Jesus Colored Yarn?

Jesus Colored Yarn?

I had the weirdest shopping list for a while: I was on a quest for Jesus-Colored-Yarn. Each store I stopped into over several weeks, I would peruse their craft aisle, or several yarn aisles, all in the name of Baby Jesus’ sweetly colored skin. I can’t be the only one…

Essential Oil Diffuser Scarf Crochet Pattern

Essential Oil Diffuser Scarf Crochet Pattern

  You can’t be unaware of essential oils.  They smell good, they enhance so many things, and as I’m getting the vibe from some of my “oily friends”, they can be part of a healthy lifestyle.  Confession: I’m like 3% educated about essential oils, but from the four or five…

The Cozy Welcome Blanket

The Cozy Welcome Blanket

The world is currently in the largest refugee crisis.  Ever.  With the war in Syria, it is estimated that 4.9 million people have been displaced from that region alone (this doesn’t include those displaced from other conflicts!)  It’s overwhelming, and it’s hard to know where to start to lend help.  There…