Hi all, I just wanted to give you long warning that I’ve moved my blog to Kristinmroach.com and will be morphing this into strictly a portfolio site. If you would like to continue following me, I’m posting more regularly now. Instead of trying to make the blog following a specific topic, it will be more [...]

Something about that “cuchunk” just drives me wild. After much thought, deliberation, and number crunching, I took the plunge. I bought a ream cutter so I could trim Craft Leftovers Monthly myself. Not to mention a million other paper based project. I’m really excited. I can cut up to 360 sheets of paper all at [...]

I’m still not totally digging these colored pencils on this paper. But that’s okay. It’s all just playing around. The mural project has totally hit a snag today. I’ve done what I can to resolve it and now I’m just waiting to hear back from the property owner. I’ll give you more details as soon [...]

I saw these interesting Map inspired paintings over on Craft yesterday. When I was out in San Francisco, I marked out my daily walking arounds and notes on a paper map given to me by the hostel. Two days before I left it fell out of my back pocket. I wanted so badly to make [...]

Hi…. *sheepish grin*…. I sure have missed you. *big hug* It feels good to be hanging out with you again! The plan was to post something each day, then each week… but I ended up not posting at all. It worked out okay on my end. Craft Leftovers is going great and I’m feeling like [...]

I have been making a lot of headway clearing space for the things I love by getting rid of the things I’m “meh” about. Books are a hard topic for me because I love them so much in general and it’s taken me a long time to realize I don’t have to love each and [...]

I posted about this kiddo drawing/painting class I’m teaching last week. I mentioned how I was excited about it and how I was preparing for it. What I did not mention was that I am extremely nervous, having anxiety, and scared shitless about teaching 4-6 year olds. Well. I am. Why you may ask. Kristin [...]

I have been searching for the perfect dollhouse kit the last few months I have it down to two options: And I realized something very strange, ironic, interesting when I spotted the second one – it is the exact same kit my grandpa and I made together when I was a kid – which my [...]

Writing has become a daily practice for me. Whether for Craft Leftovers, email correspondences, letters to friends, articles, patterns, or in my journal I am writing all the time.  I feel my expertise is in two extremes — technical writing/structured essays (think art history research papers) and really casual writing…. how I’m writing now. And [...]

Plans well laid often fail. My plan? Well to post here daily. I think it will be enough to let you know that things are awesome and being so awesome, I’m awesomely busy. Everything got cut. And it came down to spending 1 hour on the blog or 1 hour working out. Since working out [...]