I forgot to mention yesterday that Mark bought a grill over the weekend.
Okay. I might have lied about the “forgetting to mention” just there. If you didn’t notice the expiration date on the yogurt from yesterday … you probably didn’t know that I pre-scheduled that post. I knew I’d be too busy to [...]
Okay so it’s not actually a finished object. It’s getting there. But I am moving (AGAIN) soon, so I’m not going to get to finish it. However — I’ll have a whole room for crafting when we move! SO excited.
There was kind of a bit of shrinkage. I was going for 50″x50″ but the width [...]
My grandpa had given me a bunch of things that my granny (great grandmother) had left behind when she passed in 2002. I’ve been using some of her materials (embroidery thread, fabric, pins, etc.) to create some of the things I’ve been making. I’ve had 10 quilt blocks that I’ve been hoarding that she had [...]
A while back I was going to participate in a charm pack swap on craftster, but didn’t realize that I had to complete a swap before I can do two at a time … and I really wanted to rock the metal swap (which I blogged about earlier in the summer).
Anywho, I [...]
I can’t believe I never blogged about this! I posted this on craftster.org a while back. I did these over the last 2 weekends.
Coin Stack baby top for my neice’s 1st b-day (in October). There’s a lot of fun fabrics in this — these were fabrics I’d bought to do the charm [...]
I did this a few weeks back but never officially blogged about it or posted it anywhere because I never got out my good camera and took photos of it.
Well, I did. I didn’t take *good* photos of it, but it’s a step up from the cell phone pix that I had!
I have [...]

Hi there. I'm Calee. Not Caylee. Also known as chimes or the chimes. I'm 27, a designer, a runner, a self-proclaimed fitness queen, a craftster, a foodie, a music snob — some might call me a hipster. Here's the unabridged version.
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