Add some altered book inspiration to your day by checking out the work of Kelly Campbell Berry. Kelly creates beautiful, multi-dimensional book sculptures using paper cutting and scrapbooking style techniques. Each one illustrates a concept or story drawn from … Read More...
Massive list to help you make use of everyday things
Ever used a tennis ball for your laundry? To make your clothes fluffy and absorbent? Me neither.
Ever stopped a door from squeaking by using ordinary everyday butter? Nope, me neither.
Used baby oil to get latex paint off you? … Read More...
Party Ideas – Dreamy Little Lamb
Mary had a little Lamb, little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb her party was adorable. This is such a sweet little outdoor party. The only thing I see missing it little lambs running around or being bottle … Read More...
Six Jewelry Care Tips by Jewels of Sayuri
Jewels of Sayuri recently posted a list of helpful, pinnable tips for jewelry care and maintenance. Read these Jewelry Care Tips by clicking here.Weekend Jewelry Supply Sales
Shipwreck Beads is having a 25% Sale off all Preciosa Crystal beads rhinestones and pendants. Czech Glass Seed Beads, Fire Polished and Pressed Glass beads is 20% Off. Sale ends October 10th. Visit Shipwreck Beads and save … Read More...
Newly Listed Jewelry on Etsy
This morning I spent some time browsing newly listed jewelry on Etsy and decided to share some of my favorites. Take a look!
Clustered Candy Corn Necklace Tutorial
How cute is this Clustered Candy Corn Necklace! It is eye-catching and unique! The candy corn is made from polymer clay so you don’t have to worry about the candy rotting, melting or making your skin sticky. Take a … Read More...
Button Bracelet Tutorial
This tutorial shows you a quick and easy way to make a Button Stretch Bracelet using elastic, and basic sewing skills.
Roundup Halloween quilts
Quilt Inspirations shares over 50 free *quilt patterns for Halloween in their archives. Go HERE to pick out your favorite freebie.
*Most are quilts, but there are some free patterns for Halloween inspired pillows and pendants thrown in.
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Waterrose’s flower Embroidered coasters
These coasters are embroidered with pretty flowers atop two shades of linen, then quilted. Sweet and modern, visit Waterrose Etsy to see this and other homemade goods by this talented maker.
Image credit: Waterrose
Looking for more coaster patterns? Check … Read More...
Technique: Stamping and Painting on Fabric
Here’s a fabulous idea to take your stamping off the paper and onto fabric! The Neelz Expressionz blog will teach you how to stamp and paint onto fabric with stunning results, click here for all the details.
-Heather
Quilt pizza
Quilters have to eat, right? Well, why not make a quilt pizza for your next stitchy get-together. It’s sure to be a hit. Get the recipe at Weelicious,
Image credit: Weelicious.
Simple Fresh Crochet Love
This new book takes a truly fresh look at some humble crochet projects. The cover gives just a hint of the goodies inside. There’s little flash here – but the ideas are winners. You’ll be inspired to rethink some of … Read More...
Looking Forward to a Clayful Christmas
I sell my work on and offline. Because of this, I started making Christmas decorations shortly after Christmas last year. At least, I tell myself it’s because of the retail calendar and not because I couldn’t finish my to-do list … Read More...
Practice makes perfect feathers
Wendy of Ivory Spring gives a Thread Talk today on stitching feathers, adding they are very unforgiving in their traditional form. Not to worry, she shows us a way to practice that’s its own quilting stitch, so no productive time … Read More...
Farewell to True Up
Kim Kight of the popular blog True Up announced today she is calling it quits to focus on other things. I’ve followed her prolific postings for many years, and will miss seeing her thoughts on fabric grace my Reader. Learn … Read More...
Tutorial: Ladybug costume cape
Rachel from Imagine Gnats guest blogs in the Handmade Halloween series at Feather’s Flights with a tutorial showing how to make a ladybug costume cape. It’s quick and easy to make, and because it’s a cape, the sizing is super … Read More...
Project: Halloween Witch Card
The Paper, Ink and Smiles blog is sharing a cute Halloween card on their blog.
-Heather
Are you looking for more Halloween Embellishments, papers, and supplies? Check out these printable designs we found on Etsy and these fun Halloween … Read More...
Knitting Patterns – Knit Costumes for Halloween
After reading Knit Your Own Moustache I started thinking about different ways you can add knitting to costumes for Halloween or any occasion that might call for dressing up. And of course there are a lot of options out there.… Read More...
Plants to grow from Kitchen scraps
Here is a list of 17 plants that you can grow using your kitchen scraps. Who knew that the scraps from ginger, lemongrass, cabbage and lettuce can be reused and recycled to grow more of them?
Best of all, this … Read More...