Usually I’m the one rounding up crafty folks to feature in my weekly art & craft column, but recently I got a chance to but down my notebook and share a bit about my crafty life and business. Yesterday, I was featured on p. 7 in The Detroit News Homestyle section. You can read the [...]

My apologies for the sporadic blog posting of late. I’ve been busy putting the finishing touches on issue 3 of CraftSanity Magazine and attending art shows hosted by my daughters in our hallway. The girls have been painting like mad and burning through their stash of supplies very quickly. They installed their latest batch of paintings [...]

Good morning, folks. If you’re here looking for the instructions to make a “Jager” loom out of an old book as I promised in my column that appears published in today’s issue of The Grand Rapids Press (Home & Garden section p. 3), scroll further down this page or click here for the instructions and [...]

Four years ago the very first episode of CraftSanity was released into the world. My husband uploaded the show and added it to iTunes while I headed into to the office for my first day back at work after my second maternity leave. I was feeling emotionally torn about whether or not going back to [...]

I can’t believe it’s Saturday already. This week has been a complete blur. Here’s a recap: * I sold more looms this week than I expected to, so I’ve been busy making more. (A special thank you to my lovely customers. You folks rock!) This uptick in sales comes at a good time because layoff [...]

Last weekend, I ran a clothesline from my front porch to a tree out by the street. Those who were watching this curious activity unfold were probably relieved when I started pinning aprons instead of undies to the line. Oh the suburban horror that would have caused. Hmm… Anyway, I needed a place to hang [...]

Jeff Haywood here (husband of Jennifer). Here’s a video from Jennifer’s appearance on “Take Five” on Thursday. It appears the first part of the video has been cut off. She’ll have more details later. Update: They took down the old version… this is the complete version. Click the “Read more” link below to watch

I was 14 when I wrote my first story for a “real” newspaper, a free community paper that appeared on my parents’ front porch weekly. My piece was a high school sports feature and probably a pretty sad read. (I didn’t dig out the ol’ clip file to check because I wanted to skip the [...]