All in Holiday

Boho-style Felt Trivets that Protect Your Dishes and Table in Style

The holiday season is here, and Winter weather is settling in for many of us. The cooler weather and the thoughts of upcoming celebrations lead many of us to think about sinfully scrumptious foods that warm our hearts and souls. My favorite dishes, bread stuffing, bread pudding, my Dad’s oven-baked applesauce, and green bean casserole, bring back memories of family celebrations and make me pull out my most treasured casserole dishes to begin planning. Yes, just like I pick my outfits based on what shoes I want to wear, serving dishes often dictate the holiday menu at our house. I consider myself a foodie, so the right menu is essential, but I am first and foremost a visual creative, and how a meal looks and is served is at least fifty percent of my holiday experience. I also enjoy when form and function come together beautifully, and this project ticked all those boxes.

Happy May Day!

This May Day card was created using vintage, botanical game cards discovered at a thrift store. I painted the perimeters to bring out the color of the flowers. I then scanned the cards into my computer and printed the images on watercolor paper. I cut the images out, placed a grommet in each corner, and glued them to the front of a 5” x 7” greeting card. The vintage game cards remind me a little of seed packages, and the thought of spring flowers prompted this May Day card.

Glitter Sugar Skulls

I finished the Glitter Sugar Skull - Dollar Tree Hack post so late last night that the lighting in my studio wasn’t adequate to take these photos. I wanted to provide these detailed photos for those of you who want a little inspiration. There are endless ideas on the internet too, and many of them are free to print. Just Google Sugar Skulls and click on Images. A menu will appear below Images. Click on “printable.” You can print out designs and practice squeezing the glitter glue onto them if you want to practice a little first.