Here is a fun and fast little Valentine craft project to do with the kids: Tissue Paper Stained Glass Hearts. They are fun to make and will brighten up your window even on a gloomy winter day. This post was originally published on: Jan 21, 2010 @ 07:59. Valentine Craft Stained Glass Heart Materials: Tissue Paper …
Sometimes I find myself pinning items just because I am drawn to the colors of the image. Ok… I find myself doing that a lot! So I thought it would be fun to create several color collages, with no particular theme other than that the images look pretty together. I am calling today’s color collage PINK …
For Valentine’s Day we made a plethora of puffy hearts as our Valentine craft. These sweet heart ornaments would make a lovely Valentine for teachers, friends, or relatives… or hang a bunch together as an adorable, colorful, wall hanging. This Valentine Heart Ornament post was originally published on Feb 11, 2014 @ 08:24. It is fun …
There are some children that you can’t keep indoors. These children wake up in the morning and the first thing they do is seek out a large window and play weatherman. “Can I go outside now?”, is the mantra you’ll hear in lovely or inclement weather. The house is too confining for them. A whole …
I have always been a lover of children’s books. Of course I loved them as a child, but I also continued to collect them as a teen and young adult. By the time my children came along I already had an impressive collection of children’s books… then the fun really began. All the opportunities to …
If you plan to knit or crochet gifts for Easter… yep… I said Easter… it really isn’t too early to start planning. There are a handful of animals that make us of think of Easter and Spring… wee bunnies, peeping chicks, and of course, cuddly lambs. Today we are sharing a collection of some of …
Recently one of my friends asked me to design some dinosaur appliques for her. Her grandson’s room was being decorated with dinosaurs and she wanted to make some throw pillows for his bunk beds. “Something between juvenile and realistic.” So, I created 4 new designs for our Dinosaur Applique Collection. The first dinosaur was patterned after …
Last year I shared a post on Painted and Woven Stick Branches. You can read all about it HERE. In that post I included titillating facts on how to collect and paint branches. Okay, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure that out, but I also included the directions for weaving in …
In Part 1 :: How to Make a Wooden Star Braiding Loom we shared a tutorial for cutting out and finishing the star braiding loom. Of course, you do not need to make one out of wood, you can make one out of cardboard and the results will be the same. But it you use …
Yesterday someone asked me a question about the Star Braiding Loom the was included in Pixie’s 4th birthday Rainbow Collection. At the time I had tutorials on how to make her rainbow doll (not pictured) the lavender bean bags, the rag coiled bowl and the gnomes. It was always my intention to add 2 more …
Tucking away all my holiday decorations is always a bittersweet experience. On one hand I’m ready to return my house, and my life, to some semblance of order after the chaos of the season, but on the other hand my house can feel so drab after the colorful decorations are stowed away for next year. …
