Wooble Wagon

It’s really rough out here. I’m grabbing at every scrap of joy just to get out of bed in the morning. One such scrap has been “Wooble Mondays” with some of my family. I got Ben a Minecraft Wooble for this last Christmas. He’s always loved handmade toys, and I figured he was old enough […]

Toy and Miniature Museum

To celebrate Father’s Day coming up, I wanted to share a recent trip I took with my dad to The National Museum of Toy and Miniatures! This amazing museum is steps away from my office, and we had an opportunity for Staff Appreciation Week to bring our family for a free visit. Perks of working […]

Silver Dollar City Craft Days 2022

Another bonus to having my fall weekends back? It was a lot easier to plan a trip to return to Silver Dollar City’s craft festival! What remained of it, at least. Maybe the pandemic is to blame, but there were so many fewer artists out this year. It was insanely crowded, too. That, I think, […]

Dean and Bean Crank In

Spent another weekend learning some new fiber skills! This one was a lot closer to home: The Dean and Bean Crank In. Long time readers know my mom is a sock knitter. Truly, that label is more accurate than just “knitter,” because 97% of the stuff she knits is socks. That’s what she’s always wanted […]

Ply Away 2022

Yep, being able to do the same events I did prepandemic is still magical. The local spinning show Ply Away was one that I noticeably missed, since it was supposed to happen in April of 2020, at the height of our lockdown. However, for all I missed it that year, this time it was barely […]

MOPACA 2022

After two years of cancelled festivities, the MOPACA show returned to Hale Arena this year! For whatever reason, this show always happens around my birthday, so I make a point to add it to my celebratory to-do list. I keep waiting for these events I missed since 2020 to stop feeling special, but that hasn’t […]

Weston Fiber Arts Museum

I took a weekend trip with a friend up to Weston, Missouri. The main goals were to visit a winery and check out Florilegium in their new (to me) space. The winery was a lot of fun, but I found out that Florilegium was closed until July. I’d have to come back another time. However, […]

Knit Ewe Together

The “Adventures” are back! I celebrated a birthday last Thursday, and one of my gifts was a quick little trip up to Excelsior Springs, MO. It’s about half an hour outside of Kansas City proper. One of our destinations was a real, in-person, browsing excursion to a new yarn shop: Knit Ewe Together. It’s conveniently […]

Historic Garment District Museum of Kansas City

I grew up in the Kansas City area, and not until recently had I heard we had a garment district. This wasn’t just any garment district, either. Kansas City’s was the second largest in the country, topped only by New York City’s, and there was a period of time where one in seven women’s garments […]

Craft Days and Pumpkin Nights

It was time, once again, for the annual trek to Branson, Missouri for the Silver Dollar City Harvest Craft Festival. They switched it up a bit this year, though, and we’ll get to that later. There were still less fiber artists than I would like, but more than last year! Fellow Kansan Von Rhodes of […]