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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.
Spring Nesting
What we nostalgically think of as Spring, warming weather, the bright blue skies of longer days, and the fragrance of daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips blooming everywhere, has taken its time revealing itself this year in a lot of places.
Needle Felted Daiso/Uniqlo DIY
I turned an inexpensive wool sweater from Uniqlo into a one-of-a-kind statement piece for my Winter wardrobe with felting supplies purchased at Daiso, and it took less than an hour to complete. It’s so easy you can make it the same day as your next holiday get-together.
Vintage Bingo Chip Necklace
These vintage bingo chip necklaces pay homage to both of my grandmothers. The bingo chips were my granny’s, and the beads came from my grandma’s costume jewelry.
Warm Hearts this Valentine's Day
Warm your Valentine’s hearts this Valentine’s Day with microwave, heat packs filled with jasmine rice. Not only are they useful for soothing aches and pains, but they provide an opportunity to include memorable fabrics from family members who have passed that will soothe souls as well.
When you bought all your gifts online but forgot to buy wrapping paper... - Upcycled Wrapping Paper
I forget to buy something every year, and this year it was wrapping paper. “@*&^%!!!”
Ring Around the Rosy - Kid's Fashion DIY
This project is a depiction of the age-old nursery rhyme, Ring Around the Rosy.
Remember This?
Memory games are fun for kids and families, no matter their age.
Birthday Gag Gift
This is a birthday gift idea that everyone may not appreciate, but the more I age, the more I try to find humor in the aging process. Here’s one of my attempts at poking fun at the exercise of aging. And yes, I did mean exercise! Aging isn’t easy, and it entails more work with each passing year.
This lunch box includes some helpful items for that special friend or family member who’s starting down the other side of the bell curve.
String Jar How-To-Video
I have gotten a lot of requests recently to make videos for some of my older blogs. This is the first of those videos. It is a How-To on making “String Jars”.
May Day Flower Puzzle
May Day is just around the corner, and I am dropping flower puzzles off at my friend’s front doors this year instead of delivering flowers.
Block Your Calendar
A "Happy Birthday" canvas is a perfect gift for the kid who has everything or any adult who loves having fun!
Vintage Greeting Card Christmas Ball Ornaments
This project takes treasured family correspondence and greetings out of dusty boxes and cluttered drawers, and transforms them into precious ornaments that can be appreciated every year during the holiday season or given away as gifts to family and friends.
Party Planning is in the Bag
Party Bags are popular at parties for kids and adults.
Hanky Heart Necklace
Stitch pretty, vintage hankies into puffy, heart necklaces.
Get Fit for Valentine's Day in Personalized Trainers
Paint pens, Sharpie markers and a pair of plain trainers are all you need to make feet fit for Valentine's Day.