Creative Empulses

06/21/2026

Gotta brag on my kiddos. We did a fishing themed baby shower for my sister. I made a felt fish, my daughter crocheted a large mouth bass, and each of my sons decided they wanted to learn a bit of sewing by making some felt fish. We all had a lot of fun and each learned a little something by trying something new. Fresh creative endeavors are awesome like that. And showers are a great opportunity to get creative!

05/19/2026

Working on a project involving Psalms. Please share with me all your favorite modern musical renditions of the Psalms by commenting below! 👇🏼 Thank you much!

04/06/2026

Home harvested duck eggs to dye for Easter makes it all the more special of a tradition. We used a combination of dip dying and rice dying methods and the kids came up with some pretty beautiful color combinations.

Happy Easter all!

01/23/2026

My most recent musings...

Welp, here we are again. Another video snippet. All the public scrutiny. Aimed at law enforcement on all levels. And the logical implications therein insinuated that incriminate all officers for finding themselves in a life-or-death situation and facing the dreaded decision of who comes home to thei...

01/19/2026

This dear daughter of mine has been dreaming of this day ever since she found out she was getting a sister. She's spent months perusing ideas on Pinterest for things she could make for this baby, and after much indecision, finally made up her mind to make the sweetest little bunny lovey.

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After the difficult decision of choosing the perfect fabric, she finally found what she was wanting. Drawing inspiration from a few different ones we saw online, we drew up our own pattern, and with some trial and error and a few alterations, this is what we ended with. She's already made clear this bunny better be packed and ready to come along to the hospital to meet this baby.

01/16/2026

Better a late than never, but for my boys' gift, I made them each a banner to display their many badges and patches on. Pretty simple space-saving way to get them on display instead of laying all around the house. The badges easily pin on or off and the patches are pretty simple to tack on in case they ever decide they want them to be taken off and put on something else.

12/24/2025

Shout out to my daughter, who has been doing a bit of her own . She custom crocheted this cute Christmas tree ornament for a friend and has been hard at work crafting some other Christmas creations. That apple sure didn't fall far from this tree!

12/23/2025

It's been a rather last minute cram, but I've been back at it with the tradition of a custom mom-made gift for each of my kids.

Has my daughter had younger siblings for a decade plus? Yes. Has she dreamed of a little sister her whole life. Also yes. So getting to be a Big Sis to a Lil Sis just hits different, and I don't doubt she'll wear this hat proclaiming her newfound title with honor.

This was probably one of my favorites to make so far. (When sudden inspiration hits you at the craft store, sometimes you've got to give it a listen!) This was a fun mixture of trial and error with blending some new and old techniques but I think it turned out lovely.