From Stephannie's Desk

What I’ve Been Doing Since March

Welcome back! It’s been awhile. Yes, I know that most of that is my fault and I can only use the same exhausting excuse that I’ve been busy. But it has been a busy 5 months. Want to know what happened? Keep reading! If you don’t, that’s ok, I plan to be back soon with another post. In November last year, I started helping hubby’s oldest daughter, my step-daughter, through her 1st drug relapse.…

Mother’s Days Gift Ideas from my Shop!

I always find it hard to pick a gift for my mom for Mother’s Day. I never know if I should do something practical or a little more whimsical. For me, I like a little of both, something practical I can use that is also a little whimsical. Today, I thought I would share a small selection of my favorite gift ideas from my shop for Mother’s Day! Why am I doing this now when Mother’s Day isn’t until…

For the Crafters: Destashing my Craft Books into my Shop

Unlike with January, where it is seen by many as the beginning of the new year and a time to make resolutions for the year, since moving to the ranch over 16 years ago now, my new year has shifted to calving season. There is just something about seeing baby calves born and running around the meadow that just inspires and motivates me to create and stick to resolutions for the year. I think it has…

What I’ve Been Doing

Fall is one of the busiest times of the year for us. It’s the time when we hurry to finish the last of our ranch work for the year and send calves off to market during the bouts of bad weather and hubby’s schedule changes. As that is all done, I thought it was about time to share about what I’ve been doing lately.

Graphic & Book Designs

Just a few of the items I’ve worked on.

The last…

In the Shop! 2021 Planners & Trackers for everyone who loves personalizing their planners!

As the new year quickly approaches, I always have this urge to start creating better planners and trackers to help me in my business and life. For the last few years I’ve created a writing planner, this year I’ve added more than just writing planners and trackers to my arsenal of printed and printable planners.

To start, here is the 2021 Writer’s Planner: I’d Rather Be Writing. You can buy the

Embroidered Jewelry & Graphic Design Work

At the age of 3, my mom taught me to use a needle and thread to sew cloth. Those first dozen or more attempts to create something probably ended in complete failure, but that wasn’t the point of teaching me. It was to keep her curious child busy doing “grown up work” while she was sewing clothing, quilts, and curtains. It also taught me to be careful with sharp objects. I don’t loose them or…

New in the Shop! Hats, Scarves, & Shawls

As Fall is approaching, it’s the start of our haying season here on the Ranch. And while not yet cold, the nights are becoming a tad bit chilly. So it seemed like a great time to pull out the hats, scarves, and shawls I’ve made and place them in my shop. This will be their last hoorah before I discontinue the line of my handcrafted winter wear. I’m looking at focusing more on home and office…

Adventures in Digging Our Own Clay

My shop minion and oldest daughter, Tiny Trin, has really wanted to try her hand at creating clay sculptures for awhile now, but as I haven’t been all that keen to pay for expensive clay and it isn’t high on her list of birthday gifts and she no longer has the funds to pay for it either, we haven’t gotten any. That is until about a week ago.

I Googled where clay comes from in an attempt to…

My Inner Creative is so Excited!

Hello everyone! I hope your week has been a great one.

I know that I’ve been busy. And yes, that is something that I say often, but it’s true. This week has been lots of working behind the scenes of running my business.

Does anyone else find that there is so much more to running a business then what they took into account when they first started, or is that just me?

Anywhoo, I started…

Sale on the Sewing Patterns in my Shop! #sewingpatterns #sewing #sale #supportsmallbusiness

This post is more for those who like to sew. Or if you know someone who likes to sew and might be interested, share this post with them. For one week only (July 14th thru 21st), I’m offering 15% off on all my sewing patterns and when you purchase $35 or more (not just patterns but anything in my shop), you get free shipping on your order.

Now on to this extra exciting post. Mwwhawhahaha!

Wi…

Cleaning Out my Studio, aka my Crafting Corner

While I’ve been a little silent on my blog, I’ve been busy stash busting and adding new items to my shop while trying to figure out how to let you all know that I have new items in my shop without flooding your inbox daily. Because yes, I have added new items daily to my shop some weeks.

June and July has also seen me going through my patterns and crafting books. I’ve been having to make the…

Stash Busting 2020, 6 Months In

In January, I wrote a post called 2020 Goals + What I’m Doing where I listed out some of my goals for this year. Two of those goals included decluttering my craft stash and buy nothing more to add to my craft stash until I use what I have. I figured it was time to share how it is going six months later.

This is What I’ve Finished Set of Cotton Potholders

Cotton Potholders for a customer…

More Bookmarks in My Shop!

As an avid reader, I love bookmarks. I’ve owned hundreds over the years. Some, I have absolutely loved. Others, I have lost or thrown away as they start to fall apart. And then there are the ones I’ve loved, but are impractical as Hell (the metal bookmark I bought and refuse to get rid of even though it keeps sliding out of the book.)

But my absolute favorite bookmark is the one that I hand…

New in the Shop! Printable Word Count Tracker & Graph for Writers and Placemat-Napkin Set

I have added two new items in my Etsy shop, although one was actually added before the Spring Break, but with everything going on in the world and the school closures, it took me a bit before I was able to write this post.

The first is a great item for writers…

At the request of a writing friend who wanted a physical tracker for her word count goals but couldn’t find one that met her…

In January, I announced my intention to continue adding items to my Etsy shop when I had the time while creating a web shop here. Well, as usual, that plan I had for the web shop had to be modified within the first month because it wasn’t working the way I had hoped.

After a few tries and longer than I would have liked, I finally decided to make this easy for me and started revamping what I…

2020 Goals + What I'm Doing

Time flies when you are having fun, or the world falls into utter chaos, it’s kinda a toss up.

Welcome to 2020! I know I’m about 20 days late with a goal post for 2020, but there is a good reason for it. 2019 was definitely a year that I was glad to see disappear, although I’m not sure I was ready for 2020 to be here. I feel like I had so may goals and projects that I wanted to finish and…

Working on this Beauty

A few months back I started putting together this afghan from hexagon pieces I’ve been creating over the last few years from scrap yarn. I absolutely love the warmth of crochet and knit blankets. They beat my feather down comforter every time. 😁

As of tonight, I’m four rows from finishing this beautiful, colorful afghan.

Sorry about the darkness of the picture. I usually take pictures…