Books

Craft acrylic paints are my favorite for a quick painting. You can do the whole painting in one sitting. Once you're finished with one color, then you move on to another color, working sort of like a paint by number so that when you get to colors that touch, one of them is dry.


This is a two-painting set that I did for a silent auction. The benefits from the auction go to Second Harvest food bank. I call this one vol. II because there are two paintings and because this is my second time to paint books. I have a similar painting hanging in my office at work.





Maybe for the next in my series, it will be three paintings! Tell me what you think.

Nifty Table

Welcome to my new project! My goal is to help spark your creativity by presenting projects that I've completed (along with steps and photos), reviews of craft books, resources, and ideaboards based on what I like at the present. You'll probably also see quite a few references to Etsy, which I love.


During the day, I am a project manager at a software company. But, before this, I had a background in journalism and dabbled in graphic design. I miss the creative outlet that my previous job provided, so this is my attempt to make up for the loss.


Here are some of my projects:

My interests are scattered widely through the craft world: painting, computer graphic desing, sewing photography, but especially paper crafts. I really like making cards or anything that can be done with pages ripped out of magazines. Oh, and as you can tell, I also like birds.

My mom and sister are also quite crafty. At Home (with the big H), we do most of our crafting around the dining room table. Thus the name of the blog. I expect you'll be hearing from the two of them along the way.

Thanks for joining me!