Ideas to make your home brighter & your heart lighter
If you watched my live Google+ Hangout yesterday, then you saw the picnic wreath I made using party supplies and a Styrofoam™ wreath form from FloraCraft™. Who says you have to decorate a wreath with flowers? Why not mustard bottles, hotdog trays and paper plates? In case you missed it, I wanted to share the [...]
Cookout season is upon us. To celebrate, I dug into my box of party supplies and made a super cute (if I do say so myself!) picnic-themed wreath. Tune in here today at noon EDT to see how I made the wreath, using a Styrofoam™ form from FloraCraft. You can also watch over on my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
A blank canvas can be a scary thing. Especially when that canvas is two stories tall, like the wall above my sofa in the living room. The question of how to fill it and make a style statement nagged at me. So, we lived with a blank, boring beige wall for more than a year. [...]
I’ve been making some changes to my laundry room since my dad built a pedestal for my washer and dryer. I showed off some of those changes last month, in my laundry room makeover post. In that, I mentioned that I had a creative idea for covering up the electrical panel in the laundry room. [...]
Have you discovered Pick Your Plum yet? Oh my goodness! They post a daily craft deal, and I have made quite a few purchases from them. It’s always fun to figure out how to use these awesome supplies in your crafting. Case in point: these oh-so-adorable muslin and burlap bags: I originally purchased them with [...]
Burlap is all the rage, and I have to admit that these days I’m a sucker for anything made from the utilitarian material. Once spring had sprung, I knew I wanted to make a burlap wreath for our front door. I’ve made burlap wreaths in the past, wrapping straw forms and pinning squares of burlap [...]
I had a great time at the First Friday Indie Market in downtown Greensboro last week. It was my first craft show since starting Atta Girl Says, and I had a blast. All night before, the friend who was sharing my booth was worried that we wouldn’t have enough merchandise to fill our original 5X7 space. [...]
