Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
I’m kicking off a new contributor gig at seven thirty three today with a tutorial for how to make gilded seashells. Each month, I’ll be sharing a home-related tutorial on Kim’s fabulous blog, where creativity abounds. She has lots of great party ideas, free printables, kids crafts, sewing projects and so much more. She also [...]
Looking for a different way to celebrate Mother’s Day? Why not invite your mom — or your friends who are moms — over for a casual outdoor garden party? The whole idea is to give the moms in your life (and maybe that includes you) the gift of relaxation. In my live Google+ hangout last [...]
Feeling a little deja vu? I was all set to go live on Google+ for this hangout last week when I got a call that I needed to pick my son up early from school. So, I had to postpone the live Mother’s Day Hangout on Air. But barring any last-minute mothering emergencies, I’ll be [...]
Before I get to the big crafty announcement, I should apologize for my blogging absence. I had every intention of posting lots of great projects this week, but real life got in the way. I’ve been busy with Furniture Market, the semiannual trade show in High Point, N.C., where furniture manufacturers debut their new products [...]
Grab some paint, brushes, sponges and sone empty jars and join me for a live Easter crafting demo today at 1 pm EDT. I’ll be showing you how to transform plain jars into fun and fabulous Easter gifts and decor with paint and stencils you make. Aren’t these just the cutest? I made these last [...]
Easter really snuck up on me this year. Does putting some jelly beans in a mason jar count as decorating? Because that’s the sum total of my Easter decorating so far. If you’re in the same boat as I am, never fear. I’ll be demonstrating a fun and cheap Easter craft at 1 p.m. EDT [...]
Don’t you just love a “wow” crafting moment when a finished project is even cooler than you imagined? I’ve had a lot of those recently as I’ve been playing around with transferring vintage graphics and photos to all kinds of surfaces using Mod Podge photo transfer medium. This stuff is the coolest, and I’m not just [...]
In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday next week, I thought I’d show you a cute little sign I made for a child’s room using a toy wooden wagon. The toy wagon was a Goodwill find. It was a Target Circo-brand toy, and I believe it once used to have wooden blocks in it. I bought [...]
If wealth were measured in Legos, then we would be right up there with Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Carlos Slim. So, of course, my Lego-obsessed boy wanted to give Lego-themed Valentine’s Day cards to his kindergarten classmates. But store-bought Valentines just wouldn’t do. We’re Lego Creators, after all. We had to make our own. [...]
This post is brought to you by the 1980s. We’re going old school — or elementary school — for Valentine’s Day. Like, love letters are so totally grody to the max. Like, gag me with a spoon. But Valentine’s Day Cootie Catcher Love Notes? Like, totally tubular, for sure. Enough with the Valley Girl speak. [...]
