My grandmother gave me a bunch of her really great old embroidery books recently. I know nothing about embroidery, but being someone who is always up for a new challenge I’ve decided this year I want to learn! I whipped up a needle book out of scrap ribbon and some felt and I think it’s …
For my little boy’s second birthday I wanted to make him something special, so when I saw Jill’s Cozy Car Caddy on So you Think You’re Crafty last week I knew that would be the perfect gift! It’s made from an old pair of jeans, scrap ribbon and scrap fabric. I love that Jill made …
Here’s a fun way to use up your fabric scraps and one of the trillion-and-one metal clothes hangers that you have laying around. I whipped up this wreath in about an hour. I just cut a bunch of scraps 1 inch wide and about 4 1/2 inches long (longer if you want a fuller wreath). …
For Christmas, I decided to give a group of friends these fabric flower brooches. When I was trying to figure out how to give these little goodies I was stumped. How do you wrap this up? For the life of me could not figure it out… humph! But just as nap time was coming to an …
I’ve always wanted to learn how to reupholster furniture. In college I lived in a house with 7 other girls. We had this GIANT brown couch that my roomie and I decided to cover on the fly… sans directions… sans experience, but even with all that stacked against us, it turned out pretty cute. What …
When we bought our house it had this old medicine cabinet up in one of the bathrooms. yikes! I took it down and hid it away for a future project. Well, 3 years later… here it is, just before its life is about to change forever: After a coat of primer, then high gloss white …
Remember way, way back when we were little and we made our very own stamps out of potatoes? Recently I’ve wanted to give the technique a try to make some gift tags. This is so easy and there are a million possibilities to how you could use this… think t-shirts, stationery… think about using apples …
Each year at the beach we get a different surprise from the ocean that washes up. Two years ago it was sea weed… tons of it. Last year it was sea foam, again… tons and tons. Weird. This year our surprise was driftwood. I came up with the idea to make a driftwood mirror frame …
One thing the Lord has reminded me of through this miscarriage is just how precious my 1 1/2 year old is. Not that I took him for granted before, but even more so now I am trying to savor every minute with him. Today I pulled out the memory box I made for my little …
This is not your average burp cloth tutorial! You’ve seen these a million times, but have you seen a two-sided burp cloth? I hadn’t either, so I designed one for you! Here’s what you’ll need: One cloth diaper washed and pre-shrunk (don’t skip the washing step, that’s important) One piece of ribbon about 22 inches …
