You can help Nikki (Nikki, In Stitches) get her own television show! She says,
… Read More...As many of you know I am passionate about all things crafty and now is my chance to get my own show. Oprah (as
A bunch of pretty designs made from recycled paper tubes
These are some really cute designs that are made from cardboard tubes. Pop on over to the blog Pane, Amore e Creativita to check out the tutorials and all the designs.
Love working with recycled items? Check out this amazing … Read More...
Please Watch Hannah’s Video!
This video was made by 9 year old Hannah, to encourage knitters to donate hats for Hats for Hunger. All proceeds benefit Heifer International. Hannah’s video won a blue ribbon, a purple ribbon, a trip to the state fair and … Read More...
DIY Cookie Cone
Learn how to make this fabulous decorated cookie cone for your dessert table HERE at Prudent Baby.
[tags]cookie decorating, dessert table, cone, topiary[/tags]
Event: CHA Craft Supershow
CHA is a show for crafting retailers but during the show there is also an area open to the public for shopping, demos, workshops and more, visit the CHA Craft Supershow website to find out more details about the show … Read More...
Tutorial: Corner Bookmark
Zaira-Ivette Sierra shows how to use up your paper scraps to create a use corner bookmark. Click here to go to tutorial.
Tutorial: Make a pattern from your favorite t-shirt
The perfect t-shirt can take years to find – the one that snugs to your body in exactly the right places, and floats away in just where it needs to. And when you find that tee, you want one in … Read More...
Breakfast Kabobs
Check out this clever idea for making to-go cereal: Cereal Kabobs. Find the how-tos HERE at No Fuss Fabulous.
Check out these Make-Ahead Recipes books
we found on Amazon.
If you are looking for more easy breakfast ideas check out … Read More...
Free Photobooks from ArtsCow
ArtsCow, the online photo developer, has a great coupon code that you can use to get not one, not two, but up to eight free 8″x8″ photobooks! The code is valid until July 4th, 2010, but once activated lasts … Read More...
Inspiration du Jour – Just 1 Bite!
Get even more inspiration from her gallery and blog
Pretty In Pink
1. Sweet Pea Whipped Soap In a Jar by Clean Queen Soap Co.
2. Strawberry Rhubarb – Olive Oil Soap by Paradise Body Shop
3. French Macaroon Collection by KcSoapsNmore
4. Body Mist Pink Sugar by My Beauty Addiction
Tutorial: Trim and Ribbon Bracelets
Looking for something to do with those left over bits and bobs of trim and ribbons?
Jessica from Oh So Happy Together created this fun tutorial on creating bracelets from your left over scraps. The bracelets shown in her picture … Read More...
Sewing Tutorial: Make a swimdress out of a knit mini-dress
Debbie from Squiggly Twigs Designs has a brilliant solution to the ever-agonizing and always-stressful bathing suit search. This year, the “perfect” suit wasn’t actually a bathing suit at all, but a mini-dress that happened to be made from a polyester/spandex … Read More...
Tutorial: Large tote bag from a wrap-around skirt
Priti from Arm Candy For You shares a tutorial showing how to refashion a wrap-around skirt into a large tote bag. I love how she reused the trim of the skirt to dress up the top of the tote bag! … Read More...
Tutorial: Ribbon embellished bath towel with hanging loop
Shelley from House of Smiths created these pretty bath towels by adding a strip of ribbon across the bottom. But she didn’t stop there, she also added a hanging loop to make it easy to hang from a hook or … Read More...
Glass Bead Making Tutorial – Making a Glass Jack Murrini bead
Tutorials are always fun things to post since you all get something new to learn. Lori Greenberg, who used to write this blog, posted a tutorial on how to make a glass jack bead using murrini’s made by another … Read More...
Project: Shaker Flowers
How pretty are these shaker blooms by Jody Morrow?? Visit her cleverly named Confessions of a Ribbon Addict blog for her step by step directions on how to make these fun flowers.
-Heather
Old is new
I tend to think of the sculptural effects in bridal and evening fashions as being a fairly new trend. This bodice by Pierre Balmain is more than 50 years old, proving that using stitching to “freeze” fabric folds and draping … Read More...
Sign your stitchery
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint has some interesting ideas about signing your needlework. See what she has to say.
Embroidering a mixed-media surface
Hanna of iHanna’s Creative Space gives us a detailed look at her mixed-media work, Fly photo over an Inner Landscape. She says,
… Read More...I love this name! It goes so well with what I see in this embroidery; myself. The winding