Year of Finishes 2022 WIP Round-Up – Cross Stitch Version

Hey hey everyone! Here we are again, time to continue my WIP Round-Up for Year of Finishes 2022. Remember, if you're participating along with me, leave me a comment letting me know what you're working on and leave a link to your blog if you have one so I can follow along with you -…

What A Mess – Cleaning and Chronic Illness

Here I am, airing my mess again on the internet. At least this time it's my actual craft room mess, not my...um...inner mess. (Long and picture-heavy post warning!) And there it is. Slightly blurry picture from shaky, chronic trembly hands and all, my mess in all its glory. Oh, hi there Milo! I've been blessed…

Toxic Positivity (and the Value of Normalizing Negative Feelings)

Roll call: Who's been in this situation before? You're on Facebook. You're movin' and groovin', checking out what your friends are up to, viewing your 500th fake news article and your 1000th vacation or kids photo that you didn't ask to see, rolling your eyes at the fact that your auntie still doesn't understand that…

Welcome to the Babe Cave 2.0

The Babe Cave is back! Welcome back, dear readers, new and old! Today is a special day! For my semi-regular readers, they will probably recognize the reference. For those of you who are new here, let me get you up to speed! The Babe Cave is the beloved and favored nickname for my craft room;…

What’s Up?

I know! It's been another minute since I've made a post. What can I say? The reality is that my life is chaotic sometimes, and I go through long periods where I don't know what to post on the blog/I don't have the spoons to do anything new with the blog. I also get wrapped…

Welcome to the Babe Cave

Hey everyone! Hope you're doing well. And if not, I at least hope you're doing better than me! It's a rainy, dreary end of May here in the Midwest. We've had constant thunderstorms and a series of tornadoes here in Kansas for about the past week, with yet more of the rain to come for…

The Journey

Whoever said that "it's not about the destination, it's about the journey" clearly didn't realize they were full of bullshit. I guess that's not very nice of me to say, because I'm sure they were a very lovely person, and it's a great positive motivational saying that reminds you in the end it's all worth…

Long time no post…

*dusts place off* Well, hello everyone! Man, where do I begin? It's obviously been a long time since I've posted here. I've been trying to keep myself busy doing stuff, mostly to try to manage my pain. I've thought about the blog some in the nine (nine? NINE?! holy crap) months since I made my…

Happy Thanksgiving! Tips to Celebrate Holidays as a Chronic

Hey y'all! Popping in really quick from freezing, frigid Kansas before my family and I head out of town to celebate with my dad, to wish you all a happy holiday. If you live in the United States, you're likely waking up to start your own celebration of Thanksgiving. I want to take a few moments…

Moving Woes, Part 2

Hey y'all! Wow, it's been a long time again. A month and a half, maybe a little more. Life has been busy and as they said in Forrest Gump, "shit happens"! It's definitely been happening around here. For starters - we moved! Boy, it was a process. When it rains chaos, it seems to pour…