By the time you read this, a couple of weeks will have passed since I wrote it but it seems that the birthday of JKR and Harry Potter is an appropriate time to put some thoughts that have been bouncing around in my mind together. About a week ago, I took a few days vacation …read more!

size=”3″>As I type these lines, I am two hours away from being on holiday for a full week, and I really can’t wait to be off! What’s even more fun is that since my boyfriend (otherwise known as The Muggle) is going to be working, it will just be me, myself and I (and my …read more!

Yes, well, it’s been a long time, hasn’t it? I’m not really going to get into the reasons why, except to say that I guess I wasn’t really prepared for some of the demands of being a transgendered person in a big city like this. I began my transition in a small, cozy little gay …read more!

This summer, I returned to beading. All things bead-a-licious. With the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, I felt a certain amount of bittersweet regret. Why? Because, I was supposed to go. I felt a certain teariness as I bid my fellow Feltbeats-ers farewell, and bon voyage, and all that good stuff. And, …read more!

Yes, it’s a real thing. For a crafter on a budget, at least. July rolls around, and with it an internal clock with an alarm set to what I refer to as “panic mode”. Every crafter knows this alarm. It always hits early in July. You’ll wake up one morning, roll over, and then the …read more!

My boyfriend, more commonly known as “The Muggle” among my Potter friends, recently told me that he couldn’t take his two-week holidays at the beginning of August as planned. He chose to work through those weeks instead. Upon hearing this, I was faced with the choice of cancelling my own summer holidays and work like …read more!

It’s been built up to a frenzy and yet, I’m not excited about it. Well, not like many others. What you ask? The new Harry Potter theme park. Oh don’t get me wrong. Some day it would be nice to walk the streets of Hogsmeade and ride the Express but right now, I just can’t …read more!

Are you a runner? I don’t consider myself a runner. I have bad ankles; bad knees. I loathe physical activity in all forms. I’m happy sitting at my computer, at my piano, at a crafting table. However, when you are my age, you start to think about ways to stay younger; healthier. Learning to eat …read more!

For over a year now the Crafty Witches and I have been trying to find ways to draw all you rabid Harry Potter Crafters in. We started Craft-Alongs and Contests. We launched the Featured Crafter of the Month, to spotlight talented crafters from all over the world. All in the hopes of getting to know …read more!

I’m sort of between projects right now, having just finished three somewhat large ones as gifts. My son and his best friend graduated college at the beginning of last month and my boss had a special event in her life last week and for each of them, I chose to crochet something as gifts. Those …read more!