Reading Time: 3 minutesHi friends! I’m sure you’ve heard of cross-training in sports where certain skills translate over to help with other skills for athletes. I’ve heard of professional tennis players practicing other training sports like: boxing, baseball, and even track which helps their coordination, speed and strength when they play tennis. The same thing applies to crafting. …
Reading Time: 5 minutesHi my Dear Friends! Today is such a milestone for me and I’m excited to share with you that I AM OFFICIALLY RETIRED! YAY! If you’ve followed me over on kimshandcraftedcards.com, you’ll know how long I’ve talked about how I dreamed that one day I would retire and craft full time! How Did it Happen? …
Reading Time: 4 minutesHi friends, In part 1 of this series, I talked about how to get those ideas we have to paper. In this post, we’ll take those ideas off paper and begin implementing them. There will be tips for doing this, but the best piece of advice I can give is be committed and diligent so that you …
Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction Hi friends! This post is part of a two-part series I wrote some time ago and I’ve revised it and wanted to share it with you. I write this primarily for creatives, artists, designers, whatever your craft is. We often have some really great ideas for future projects, patterns, designs, but we don’t always …
Reading Time: 2 minutesfeatured photo by freepik.com We all have to multi-task, you know what I mean…cooking dinner while washing sheets, writing up a shopping list and answering the phone. Many times, I’ve needed more than two arms! And, if you have small children, it’s tricky when so many things are screaming for your attention. I usually try …
Reading Time: 11 minutesHi friends! In today’s post, I’m talking about selling and donating our handmade items. I’ve done both before and there’s a big difference between the two not just because selling is profit and donating is not but there’s other factors I’d like to share. If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know that I …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you are a maker, I’m sure you’ave had times where you’re just in a funk. You can’t create anything you like. Your writing seems dull or maybe you’ve tried to draw something 50 times and it’s just not coming out right. How many pieces of paper have you balled up and tossed in the …
Reading Time: 8 minutesHi my friends! Today, I’m sharing some pics of my new Craft space. If you’ve been following me on IG for awhile, you know hubby and I bought our 1st home in 2024 so we’ve been living here for 1 year and 3 months now. WOW! It seems still that we just moved in. We …
Reading Time: 3 minutesHi my friends! Well, here’s my first sewing project on my new Varmax mini sewing machine! If you missed reading my blog post on my new machine, catch it here. My BFF and I have started sewing together {virtually} and for our first project, we decided on pin cushions. We both need them for our …
Reading Time: 5 minutesHi my friends, today’s post is really special! I’m getting into sewing!, or I should say, “back into sewing”. I had a sewing machine many years ago that I purchased from my local thrift store. It was a Brother and a very good machine. I was learning on it with a lady in the women’s …
