Several days ago I shared these fun glass glittered pear bowl fillers from Denise at The Krazy Kraft Lady. Denise has some really awesome designs on her blog, and if you like the real primitive and grungy stuff, she has … Read More...
Fabric Hoop Wall Art
This is a fun and inexpensive way to create some art for your walls. Perfect for a teen girl’s room using flowers, stars or polka dotted fabric. Change them up even more by painting the embroidery hoops!
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Thread LED Tea Light Cover
I’m sure you’ve seen those little battery operated tea lights? They are great for luminary jars on a windy evening or for kid’s projects as there’s no real flame. I came across this fun project at Weddingbee yesterday and knew … Read More...
Repackaging Carrots to Look Like Junk Food
Is this a new trend? Tricking us to eat veggies by accepting a junk food mores. According to USA Today, Bolthouse Farms and about 50 other carrot growers are going to try a new marketing scheme to package baby … Read More...
Fall Tree Cupcakes
The 95-degree weather we’re having belies the promise of Fall, but I know it’s coming. Check out this chocolate Fall tree tutorial at Crazy Delicious Food. Via Cupcakes Take the Cake. Via Party Cupcake Ideas. That’s a … Read More...
Cookie Giveaway!! A Brown Bag Cookie “Lunch”
Just had to share with you all a yummy giveaway at my other gig. I’m currently running a cookie giveaway, courtesy of the shop where I worked for nearly a decade, Bundles of Cookies. Just CLICK HERE to … Read More...
Tutorial: Super cute art tote bags for your creative little monster
Craftster user sadsilver shows how she made these super cute art totes. The lined tote bags will hold pads of paper or coloring books, while the monster appliques on the front are designed to hold the crayons or pencils. The … Read More...
Tutorial: Oversized ruffled fabric bloom
Alison from Cluck, Cluck, Sew guest blogs over at Someday Crafts with a tutorial showing how to make an oversized fabric bloom. I love the scrappy look from using bits and pieces of a whole lot of fabric prints! She … Read More...
Giveaway- Sizzix Texture Boutique
Visit the Create blog and leave a comment for a chance to win a Sizzix Texture Boutique prize package. Click here to visit their blog and leave a comment.
-Heather
There are Pinwheels in the House
Kaye from Miss Print is celebrating having her very first quilt pattern published at the Moda Bake Shop. I already follow her blog and now I’ll be looking to see more wonderful quilt patterns like her first, shown here. … Read More...
Recipe Tuesday: Herbs
1. Make a field greens and herbs salad with 2 Stews.
2. Make rosemary focaccia bread at Biggest Diabetic Loser.
3. Make chicken and basil pesto meatballs at Big, Bold, Beautiful Food.
4. Find a roundup of … Read More...
Book Review: The Artistic Mother
Jill at A Matter of Memories has written a review of the book The Artistic Mother by Shana Cole. As Jill discovered, while the book is about mixed media art, many of the ideas and principles can easily be transferred … Read More...
Inspiration du Jour – five
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Tutorial: Make The Perfect Diaper Cover
Dana from MADE shares a tutorial for making The Perfect Diaper Cover. You can make them out of one piece of fabric or with contrast bias tape around the edge. You say you think these are the cutest things ever, … Read More...
Tutorial: Patchwork patriotic drawstring pouch
Head over to Craft Passion to find out how to make this patriotic drawstring pouch. The patchwork around one side of the pouch in her example is done in the colors of the Malaysian flag. You could easily adapt this … Read More...
Tutorial: How to set snaps with a snap setting tool
Amy from Positively Splendid tells how to add sewing snaps to a sewing project using a snap setting tool. Go to the tutorial.
[photo from Positively Splendid]
Edible Logos on Your Pizza
The brainchild of the NBA, now your pizza can come with your favorite team’s logo. Apparently, some pizza chains will get the edible logos to add to the top of their pizzas. And coming soon… toasters that toast logos. Learn … Read More...
Suzani = tambour work
Christine Stanton of Christine, by Hand points out that the beautiful suzani embroidery showing up on Etsy has the look of chain stitches but is created with a tambour hook. (The technique Susan Elliott told us about in June… Read More...
Stitch Markers! In All Flavors, Shapes and Forms
Want cupcakes? She’s got ’em.
Want puppy dogs? Check.
Want Sushi. Not a problem.
Mushrooms? You want them, she’s got them. Stitch markers that is. My favorites are these fish!
Click on this link to see all the goodies from … Read More...
Woven Vintage Map Basket
There are some great projects made from outdated, or even vintage maps. I mentioned in my post about the map coasters that each year new atlases are printed and thousands of outdated ones are tossed or (hopefully) recycled. I’ve been … Read More...