Faced with a challenge to answer that question, Kate went about answering that question in the best possible way. By making it using all recycled materials!
I truly think, she rose to the challenge and built a spacecraft worthy of … Read More...
Tutorial: Reversible pillowcase
Cami from Tidbits shows how you can make a reversible pillow case. If you want to make it extra pretty, you can add trim to the opening. Making it reversible gives you two looks from the one pillowcase. It also … Read More...
Build an Inventor’s Box
If you have a child that likes to tinker and build things, I highly recommend you use the suggestions shared on The Educators’ Spin On It to create an inventor’s box. Not only is it a fun way to facilitate … Read More...
Technique: Custom Envelopes Decorated with Custom Stamps
Don’t send your wonderful hand stamped cards in a plain envelope, make the envelope as pretty as the card! Mark Montano shares how you can make your own large custom stamps using embossing folders and thin sheets of fun foam. … Read More...
Tutorial: Turn corners on quilt binding
There’s light at the end of the quilt-making tunnel, once you get to to binding. That’s how Tonya, of Crafty Mummy, sees it. And this fact makes her heart sing. And then there are the binding-haters. The difficult part is … Read More...
Wall Made Of Post-It SuperHeros
How cool are these walls! Using 8,024 post-it notes, Ben Brucker made the walls of his creative agency, a little less boring.
He used the super-sticky variety of these post-it notes to create these super-hero walls that took several weeks … Read More...
Tutorial: Vintage powder or bath mitt
When I was a kid, I loved using my grandmother’s body powder. I felt so fancy pouncing the perfumed powder over my arms and back. Mary Beth from RetroMonkeys shares a free vintage project sheet showing how you can make … Read More...
Mermaid Lapghan Pattern For Adults
Shelley Bunyard of Mad Hooker Crochet has made this adult sized, mermaid lapghan. And she has given detailed pattern description on her blog. This lapghan measures 42 inches tail to top and 12 inches tail to tip of the fin.… Read More...
How to easily update a Glass Base Lamp
Using simple materials like washi tape and gift wrap ribbon, see how easy it can be to update your old glass base lamps!
I love how Amy from Delineate your Dwelling restyled these lamps that she’s had for 7+ years. … Read More...
Tutorial | Mother’s Day Wrist Corsage
This Mother’s Day, create a special handmade gift that all your favorite moms will treasure — a beautiful wrist corsage! With just a few simple materials and a little bit of time, you can craft a thoughtful accessory that shows … Read More...
How to make iridescent Fairy wings
UPDATE Jul 2020: The original website has been taken down. We have saved a PDF copy of this tutorial that you can download: How-to-make-iridescent-wings.
I love it when I look at something and think it is made with … Read More...
Little Polymer Bowls
Here’s a cute trinket dish for the kiddos to make – perhaps for Mother’s Day, perhaps to store their own treasures. The coil pot method to make the initial circle mixes the colours prettily.
If your kiddos are up for … Read More...
Watermelon Ideas for Kids Parties
Who says healthy food can’t be fun? Check out this amazing roundup of creative ways to serve fresh fruit, featuring a watermelon pirate boat, watermelon basket, watermelon cake, and watermelon turtle. These ideas are perfect for birthday parties, picnics, or … Read More...
Project: Get Well Pop Up Tissue Box
Wanting to cheer up someone who is feeling sick? Make them this sweet pop-up tissue box card. The Scrapping and Stamping in California blog has complete directions for cutting, scoring , folding and assembling this cute card, click here.
-Heather
Making Peg Dolls – A book review
Cintia of “My Poppet” Is going to help us fill the hours the kids are in the house on these rainy spring days. Our children are on spring break this week but I know others schools have been out a … Read More...
Giveaway: Fantastic Mosaics Video Course
Liat Gat of KNITFreedom is known for her great videos that take the mystery out of knitting techniques. She’s done great video libraries of cast ons and binds off that are super references for when you want to try a … Read More...
Knits for the Home for Spring
There’s something about the coming of spring that makes you want to change things up around the house, right? Whether you get the feeling you want to repaint a room (I’m thinking hard about upgrading my beige office) or you … Read More...
Over 25 stone and wire mesh projects
I have recently made a bunch of unusual projects with chicken wire and I was looking more that I could do outside as I have been working on the yard these days. Over at the blog My Desired Home there … Read More...
Tutorial: No-sew knotted animal blanket
Jess from The Sewing Rabbit shares a cool variation of the no-sew knotted blanket. Rather than the knots going around the outer edge of the fleece blanket, she uses the knots to insert an animal shape into the middle of … Read More...
Unusual magazine rack ideas
This is a really cool way to organize and store your magazines. I want to make a version of this with recycled tin cans by cutting both the top and bottom off with a “Safety can opener” so … Read More...