CraftLit: a Podcast for Busy People who Love Audiobooks

12/04/2025

Free movie night coming up!

This is a free watch party, which means ANYONE can join.

This is for anyone who needs a lovely reminder of the good in life. For all the folks that feel discouraged. For those of us that would feel better watching meaningful, heartwarming Christmas movies among friends.

Join our Discord in this link. Movie night is on Dec 4, Thursday, 8pm ET. We'll see you there. 💜

https://discord.com/invite/M7jtQKrwW3

11/28/2025

Sure sure, Turkey et al was great —and so fun to have the kids up to share it with us, but the Thanksgiving miracle was two loaves of delicious Stottie bread!
I tweaked the normal recipe to be GF using flour (responsible for the miracle) and psyllium husks (wingman to the flour) and a tad more water and OH MY GOODNESS! It worked!!!
A northern England sandwich bread that did NOT need to be toasted to be palatable. A miracle indeed! Have you used/heard of this flour before? ( )

10/31/2025

Best (most tragic) costume seen in Lambertville, NJ tonight.

10/31/2025

Psst. Short on time? Here's 5 creepy stories in our Premium Halloween Collection, ending with one I will NOT listen to again. 🙃

Whole thing is less than 3 hours but do not let that fool you. This was NOT fun to put together at night.

Our Spooky Halloween Collection includes:

🖤 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

🖤 Usher II by Ray Bradbury

🖤 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

🖤 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

🖤 Faces at the Window by Rose Wilder Lane (A CraftLit special)

If you're already on Premium, you SHOULD have access to all of the above, plus the rest of our premium stuff.

You can find this collection on our site or on YT.

If you don't have premium, you can access this in the same places after becoming a member!

In case none of the stories above is your taste, consider:

🎃 Frankenstein
🎃 Dracula

AND some horror stories I narrated:

🦇 Sleepy Hollow (My second best narration ever)
🦇 The New Mother (Old Story Coralline was based on)
🦇 My Closet is Trying to Kill Me (Look up "As Danger Unfolds" Ep 329 Chilling Tales for Dark Nights Podcast (Horror Fiction) on YT)

All of those 3 videos can be found on Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

Everything else? CraftLit. 🤓

Enjoy!

10/27/2025

Quick detour for dinner at (WOW! So good!). We got there an hour before opening so shopped In the attached Mall housing a vintage lover’s paradise called — vintage patterns for my measurements (!!!), bone bobbins and crochet hooks, thimbles that FIT, velvet scrap bags (crazy quilts!), some lace, plus the little gadget here. I’ll be fixing my dull scissors when I get back home.

10/27/2025

Almost home. Last few updates. I’ve learned something, though. To remember anything (with Long-COVID brain) I need to journal/sketch/paint. I go down to the bar, nurse a hot tottie, and get stuck-in. I sleep better after that journaling process—and occasionally meet people lovely people like LLBean Bootmobile-Driver Tucker. look up the Bootmobile for a smile. 👌

10/25/2025

Fewer stops, longer days. Wednesday night in OKC, Thursday night in St. Louis, Friday night in Columbus, OH. Tonight we see at school!

10/23/2025

Save this for reference. 🎃

Okay. So here are 5 spooky audiobooks you can find on CraftLit (plus extra!):

1 - The Woman in White (mystery, gothic horror, victorian)

2 - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (gothic horror, supernatural, suspense)

3 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (philosophical, gothic horror, decadent literature)

4 - The Canterville Ghost (gothic horror, humor)

5 - Dracula (gothic horror, supernatural)

AND

6 - Frankenstein (female author, gothic horror, supernatural, science fiction)

7 - The Yellow Wallpaper (female author, short story, horror, mental health)

Both completely free and available on YT!

You can find "The Yellow Wallpaper" narrated by Heather herself on Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

If you'd rather read short stories by Poe and other authors, stay tuned.

That's a separate Halloween collection you can listen to with CraftLit! 🤓

10/22/2025

Georgia O’Keefe’s home in Abiquiu, NM.: entry, atria, hallways & alcoves, living room, dining table (incl. table “legs”—all made of whitewashed/varnished plywood?), a kitchen couch❤️ studio, bedroom, my Prickly Pear cider (yum!), tortilla soup (nom!), & a watercolor sketch.

✨Bonus points if you spot any famous designers’ furniture in her home. ✨

10/21/2025

Chapter 1 of Moby is now FREE!

This is technically a premium episode, but this book is too good not to share.

If you found Moby Dick too boring/daunting a read, try it with CraftLit. We'll break things down chapter-by-chapter, help you make sense of it, and actually help you enjoy classic lit without any of pain.

Also: We'll do our best to inform you of whale-heavy chapters that you can skip. 🤓

If you want more, just grab a premium membership at YT, Patreon, or CraftLit's site (https://craftlit.com/Premium/) directly. 💙

Yes! Technically, this IS a Premium Episode, but I'm on the road and didn't want to leave you alone during the pause - plus, this book is too good not to sha...

10/20/2025

First night on the road: stayed over in quirky Hatch, NM. (🌶️Yes, of course we got some chili-based products before leaving!🌶️) The Casita got high marks from Mom and me. Perfect start!

10/18/2025

A good morning. I’m achy now, but it was worth it.