Abby Glassenberg from While She Naps, and author of Stuffed Animals: From Concept to Construction
, shares a free pattern for her Josephine doll. She designed the cloth doll for an artist gift exchange she attended, but this sweet … Read More...
DIY: Glittered Cinnamon Ornaments
I think these glittered cinnamon ornaments are stunning ( and I bet they smell heavenly too) ! Rachel posted the tutorial for creating these on the blog, Adventures in Making. She shares the recipe for the dough as well as … Read More...
Tutorial: No-sew Frozen princess Christmas stockings
Holly & Nat from My Sister’s Suitcase share a tutorial for making Christmas stockings inspired by the Frozen princesses Elsa and Anna. Both stockings started out as inexpensive stockings from the discount store. They added faux fur and trims and … Read More...
Easy and Stylish Hanukkah Ideas using Paper
All these Hanukkah decorations were made using scrapbooking and crafting papers. You can find instructions and templates for the projects at HGTV. Decorate your space with dreidel banners and more. PLUS find other ideas like simple recipes for … Read More...
Freebie | Vintage Christmas Graphics
Use these gorgeous and free vintage Christmas graphics from We Lived Happily Ever after to design your Christmas cards, scrapbook layouts, Christmas albums and even journal and filler cards for your pocket pages. Hannah also shares a tutorial showing how … Read More...
Project: Frozen Olaf quilt
Shauna of Shwin&Shwin made this quilt for her daughter Abbey who is a fan of the movie Frozen. Relieved she liked the Olaf character the best, she got this happy snowman pieced and quilted in just 3 days. That’s … Read More...
Tutorial: Cupcake Dangles
These sparkly cupcakes are adorable as dangles or charms or mini ornaments but you could make them into larger tree ornaments by using a wadded up piece of aluminum foil as the core. Simply cover the foil with the white … Read More...
Present Cake with Ornament Surprise Inside
This is beautiful! The cake as a present is breathe taking, but your guests will be in awe after you slice the cake. I showed another cake like this one, but with a peace sign earlier this year. This is … Read More...
Tutorial: Peppermint stripe Christmas tree skirt
Liz from Say Yes shows how you can make this peppermint stripe Christmas tree skirt. The sewing is simple, or you could use glue (or fusible hem tape) and make it a no-sew project. At first glance I thought the … Read More...
Christmas Gingerbread Men Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Oh my! Cuteness overload! What a neat way to use the gingerbread cookie
. This is perfect if you don’t have any cutouts for your gingerbread men, but still want to make something with the gingerbread recipe. You can’t help, … Read More...
Tutorial: Matisse-inspired cutout pillows
These throw pillows by Mark Montano are inspired by the Matisse paper cutouts he recently saw at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. He shares a tutorial showing how you can make them. On a much smaller scale than … Read More...
Tutorial: Felt flower Christmas headband
Terra from Mama Says Sew shares a tutorial for making this Christmas headband with a cluster of felt flowers. Her tutorial shows how to make each kind of flower, and also how to make the elastic headband. You could also … Read More...
Mini Cheesecake Snowmen
I just watched Frosty’s Winter Wonderland last night and these cute cheesecakes remind me of Frosty without his hat. Plus, I love snowmen! One of the few decorations you can keep up through the whole winter season. Although, I do … Read More...
How to: felt snowflakes Tutorial
Robyn of the “fuzzy lizards” made a ton of these out of paper, but she thought felt ones would make good little gifts for co-workers. I think these also would make daring for Christmas tree ornaments and gift toppers and … Read More...
A Few More Great Scarves to Knit
There’s no end to the great scarf knitting patterns out there, and there are more being published all the time, so there’s never going to be a definitive roundup of scarf knitting patterns, which is great for me because it … Read More...
Tutorial: Reusable fabric gift bag with a sheer pocket
Susan from Crafterhours shows how you can make a fabric gift sack – with a sheer pocket across the front to hold a gift tag. The fabric bag can be used year after year without showing wear. The pocket allows … Read More...
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How to make a melted crayon ornament
We have all seen melting crayon scraps into rainbow crayons and even the ironing them in between wax paper to make sun catchers but this idea for melting the crayon scraps in a glass ornament and swirling it around is … Read More...
Tutorial: How to make a winter hand muff
RaeAnna from Sewing Mama RaeAnna shares a tutorial at The Sewing Rabbit showing how you can make a hand muff. A pocket you can wear around your neck, a hand muff gives a warm place to tuck your hands when … Read More...
(Updated) What do food banks need the most?
Food banks are non-profit organizations that collect and distribute food to people in need. They work to address food insecurity, which is the lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
Food banks usually receive donations of … Read More...