by Guest Author | Jul 25, 2019 | Hobbies
Written by Chloe Bennet When you have a hobby that you love, sometimes it’s hard to wait until the time is right to begin passing on your love of it to your kids. But when the moment is right and you’re all ready to begin sharing the joy of quilting, here are some...
by Brandon Quist | Mar 2, 2015 | Hobbies
One of the sad facts of life is that if you wear a piece of clothing long enough, it will fall apart on you. In my case, I still have these clothes because I am a pack-rat. To be fair, I am a pack-rat because I tend to find uses for things I keep around. When faced...
by Brandon Quist | Jan 26, 2015 | Hobbies
Within each of us, there is a child-like wonder at the forces of the world. What energies are unlocked by fire? What unseen hand gathers metals to magnets? How can a stick be held up by a single spot? It is this last one that I shall seek to inspire once again in you,...
by Britt Kelly | Jan 15, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home, Hobbies
About thirty years ago I was in High School Freshman English Class. We were very much 14. We thought we were amazingly creative and funny giving our teacher blue toilet paper when we had discovered her birthday was coming up and her new bathroom was blue. We were...
by Brandon Quist | Jan 12, 2015 | Hobbies
I like to buy in bulk, and I like to order things online. As you might expect, I have cardboard boxes serving as shelving, and as… boxes. Even then, I have cardboard laying around, just waiting to be consumed in the spark of inspiration. Let me show you the ashes. Go...
by Brandon Quist | Dec 1, 2014 | Hobbies
With the Christmas holiday coming up, many of you are so stressed out, you are chewing on paper. While you may be a colony of hamsters in a cunning disguise, might I suggest a better option? Paper Mache literally means chewed paper, and has wartime applications. (Let...