Lisa Yoder

  • Weekend Pairing: DIY Holiday Edition

    I had seen this gold leaf pinecone garland weeks ago & decided I needed to make one. Except I skipped the whole gold-leaf process & took a pile of pinecones out back and spray painted them. There. The lazy girl’s guide to DIY Christmas cheer! What’s that? Oh, you’re right. Lazy girls don’t spray paint…

  • December Goals & 30 Days of Lists

      I’m sponsoring this round of 30 Days of Lists! It’s an easy way for people to document their lives in a super simple way — just making lists. There’s a list prompt for every day, and your lists and/or documenting tools (art journal, pen and paper, blog, whatever) can be as simple or as…

  • Are you an idea hoarder?

    I have a confession to make: I hoard my own ideas. I keep running lists of things to make, projects to start, dreams to pursue, blog posts to write. (In fact, this was one of them.) Rather than make a plan to execute these ideas, I collect and save them. I check in on them now…

  • Missing Iceland

    Leading up to this year’s Iceland Airwaves festival, I started having dreams that I was headed back there. I’m still having them. About once a week, I have a dream that I’m going to Iceland on a last minute trip by myself. Usually I try to find a friend who can come along with me,…

  • Lunchtime Reads 11.4.13

    Bringing Art Home: What is the fruit of creativity worth to us? We are totally blessed to have been gifted with tons of art for our wedding, but I understand the hesitation to spend money on art. I think many people probably focus on the practical necessities (especially those with Mennonite/Anabaptist backgrounds, and probably other…

  • Weekend Pairing: Design Edition

    Many of the best examples of industrial design are things that people don’t think were designed at all. Take the Post-It note. It’s something we take for granted that people don’t think of it as being designed. And what they don’t realize, is that from the moment they wake up almost everything that fills their…