I made this denim purse by hand when I was a teenager, using a worn-out pair of jeans. I carried it for years, and even after it eventually fell apart, I couldn't bring myself to throw it away. Instead, I saved it until I had enough sewing experience to remake it properly.

Learn how to fix broken stitching by hand with this simple clothing repair! You don't need a sewing machine or any special skills—just a needle, thread, and a few minutes.

I’m watching my parents’ dog while they’re away, and we’ve been taking golf cart rides to nowhere, because he’s obsessed with going for golf cart rides. I made this video for my family and thought I would share it, because it’s adorable.

I’ve been helping my parents out with a project over the past couple of weeks, and the tasks that I’m performing are pretty unpleasant. In this video I talk about how changing my perspective of what I was doing has changed my experience of it.

Today I show you how I make succulent arrangements using cuttings that I got from around my parents’ yard. It’s super easy and very gratifying, because succulent arrangements look so beautiful!

The past six months have been intense, and I’ve had some major changes to my life that I share in this video.

I made a holiday wreath and I show in this video how simple it is to do.

I had a lot of fun making this one. Last year I turned the comments off on all of my videos and this video is an exaggerated comedy sketch explanation as to why. None of the people are real and none of the comments are real, I just had a lot of inspiration from all the crazies on the internet. Hope you enjoy.

Three weeks ago, I decided to stop scrolling and stop streaming—no Pinterest, no movies, or videos - basically no mindless distractions, as a 6 week experiment. I’d been feeling a pull to take a break from all that noise for quite a while, but as we got closer to the end of 2025, it felt like it was finally time.

In just a few short days, our colorful fall scene lost all of its color and was replaced by a light blanket of snow. Though I don’t miss 7 months of deep cold and snowy weather, I do miss snow very much, so I light up when it graces us with its presence.

This fall has been absolutely spectacular, and I've had a lot of fun exploring the area and filming it. The leaves’ color has stayed for much longer this year, than it has for the past 4 years I've been here, almost as if mother nature was making up for last fall.

A couple of months ago, I read an article about an actor who spent a month and a half in complete solitude, in order to develop the character he was about to perform for a movie. His 6 weeks of intensely dedicated focus really stuck with me for some reason, and I couldn't get it out of my mind.

A couple of months ago, I decided that I was going to make a jacket out of a bleach stained holey shirt and pillow case that I got from the goodwill outlet. My goal was to take discarded items and put them together in a meaningful way, to create something beautiful that I could treasure forever.

Fall is one of my favorite times of year, and last year, our Fall was a little intense here in Western North Carolina, so I spent most of it in survival mode.

At the end of last winter, I got the idea to make a coat out of an old quilt that I got from my mom. The quilt was made by my great great grandmother, and it had sat in a bag in the back of a closet for almost 50 years.

I went to Italy for 10 days in September, because my beautiful friend Michele was getting married up in the Dolomites. This was my first time out of the country in 11 years, and my first time back in Europe in 17 years.

I don't believe in pure coincidence. I may have, at some point in my life, but the more life I've experienced, and the deeper I've observed my experiences, the more impossible it's become to believe that things just randomly happen at random times, for no particular reason.

This was my first refashioning project. I bought the dress for $3 from the Goodwill Outlet, or “The Bins” as it’s called, and I deconstructed the dress and used a pattern to create the new dress. In the future, I won’t use a pattern unless I know for sure that I have enough fabric to cut all of the pieces as solid pieces, but I made this one work.

I started sewing this dress a year ago, but as it is the most complex thing I've ever sewn, I stopped out of frustration, several times, and then finally finished it up this winter. My mom got me the fabric from a yard sale, which makes me super happy, because it's scrap leftovers that most people would typically just throw into the trash. And this particular piece of scrap was more than enough for me to sew an entire dress out of.

As of this week, it's been five months since Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina and I thought I'd give you all an update on how things are going. It took 7 weeks before I had clean running water back in my home. It's a little hard to believe I went without it for that long, but between my friends' home and the community care stations, I was able to shower and wash my clothes and get all the water I needed. I've never been more grateful for clean running water and hot showers whenever I need them.