Staci from Crafty Stacishares her free coffee sleeve pattern for the month. This month, it’s a cute fox that wraps around your coffee cup to keep your hands from getting burned. LOVE!! It would make a great gift for … Read More...
Freebie | Give Thanks Printable Posters
When your thoughts turn to Thanksgiving, get a head start with these free printable give thanks posters in a chalkboard style from Kara at Happy Go Lucky. You can get either the landscape or portrait version. Click here to grab … Read More...
Tutorial: Decorative stitch sampler pillow
The decorative stitches on my machine are awful pretty but rarely used. 99.999% of the time, I stick to functional stitches like straight stitch, zig zag, or blind hem. This color blocked throw pillow puts those decorative stitches to use. … Read More...
Photography | Take Better Photos of Your Baby
Amy from The Connection We Share is back with another article to help you improve your photography. This time she is helping you to take better photos of your baby. I think this is great timing with the holiday … Read More...
Freebie: Witch Digital Stamp
Squigglefly has a great witch digi stamp to download for free, click here to get her.
-Heather
Looking for more digital stamps? Check out the digital stamps at Design Bundle
Tutorial | Unique Stitched Title
Add some texture to your scrapbook pages using this hand stitching technique by Cindy Tobey. She shows you how to create a two-toned title using cardstock and embroidery thread. Click here to see how it’s done!
Inspiration du Jour | My Curly Top
How To Print On Fabric – 6 Different Ways
Karen of the Graphics Fairy (one of my fave sites for, um…free historical graphics) shares some easy ways to print on fabric using a home printer. She even gives a tip for setting fabric if your printer ink is not … Read More...
Tutorial: Carved and Filled Design
Claire Wallis shows a simple but very effective method of creating a carved, backfilled and highlighted design on a polymer clay item. Step 1, step 2, step 3 and step 4 (above). Claire does hers on a bangle … Read More...
Free pattern: Little girl ruffled skirt with attached leggings
Remona from The Stitching Scientist shares a free pattern for making a little girl’s ruffle skirt with leggings attached. The skirt has three rows of ruffles for maximum twirl and flounce, and the attached leggings keep her daughter’s legs warm … Read More...
Tutorial: Patchwork serger mat with a thread catcher
Tonya from The Crafty Mummy shows how to make a pretty patchwork mat that sits underneath your serger or overlocker and has a bag attached to catch your scraps. This would also be a nice accessory for a regular sewing … Read More...
Knit a Holiday Sweater for a Little Dog
I almost missed last week’s 12 Weeks of Christmas knitting pattern from Red Heart, which would have been a shame because it’s a really cute little dog sweater that could be made in holiday colors or not as you choose.… Read More...
Hand Painted Cookies
These cookies are a work of art.
The effort and detail involved in making these cookies would make my hand tremble before I ate them. And to think, that these detailed cookies would vanish in a second if someone ate … Read More...
DIY Pallet Art
A little different in terms of Pallet crafts and the current Halloween overdose!
This Pallett art project by Tori Grant is beautiful and very creative way of doing something with those pallet’s that hasn’t been done before.
She also decided … Read More...
How to make a recycled cereal box gift box
I’m posting this now so you can start saving all your cereal boxes to make gift boxes for the gift giving season (whether the gift inside is handmade or not) the recipient will surely giggle. As with all Jeannine’s tutorials … Read More...
Halloween Dinner Invitations
Forget about Haunted houses and blood dripping down plastic tacky Halloween ornaments and think about – Elegance, sophistication, adults around a dinner table enjoying a meal where nothing is green and gooey and not one sign or a slug or … Read More...
Free Printable – Vowel Sorting
Anyone noticed that Halloween is coming? I am sure by now you must be well aware and this blog is no different we are theming our blog posts to keep up with the crazy October season.
Sort out long vowels … Read More...
Enter to Win a Jordana Paige Bag Full of Goodies
Jordana Paige is giving away a pink Knitter’s Satchel
full of skin care goodies from Alouette in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Kellie Judson of Alouette is also giving 40 percent of her sales this month to breast … Read More...
Tutorial: Swirl minky faux fur cowl
Amy from While Wearing Heels shows how she recreated the look of a swirled faux fur cowl from Anthropologie, but sized for her young daughter. She used pink minky fur (the kind with the little swirls in the fur) left … Read More...
Winner! Fun Food for Fussy Little Eaters!
Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for Fun Food for fussy Little Eaters by Smita Srivastava! The winner of the book is commenter #11 S M:
Fingers crossed….i really like her work,thanks for this giveaway…would love to … Read More...