I want to send out a heart-felt “thank you” to all of you who shared your stories, wrote well-wishes and are sending up prayers for my son while he’s at basic training. I had no idea so many of you have been where I’m at as a mom and have grown sons who’ve already been-there/done-that. It really does my heart good to hear your boys survived and are better men for it.Okay, enough about me! Do you have a mile-long {Read More}
Easy-breezy Clothespin Bag
February 3, 2013 by 28 Comments
Last summer, I was on the lookout for some easy-breezy kind of summer clothes. You know…a gal standing on the beach, wearing crinkly, lightweight white cotton, blowing-in-the-breeze kind of clothes…and I didn’t want to pay more than $5 for it…because I’m that cheap and I ruin clothes quickly. One thing I found that had that look was a pretty, simple sleeveless shirt. It was light, it was comfortable, it was stand-on-the-beach breezy looking – so I bought it. What I {Read More}
DIY Apothecary Jars – Cheap & Quick!
January 26, 2013 by 31 Comments
DIY Apothecary Jars Recently, I shared several antique apothecary labels with you, for Antique Graphics Wednesday. I have lots of old apothecary bottles, but sometimes I’m hesitant about altering original bottles, but I love using new jars and bottles, that might otherwise be thrown away, and altering them to make them look old. So when I stumbled across some cute little candles in jars with lids at Walmart for less than $1, I knew I was really going to get {Read More}
How to Make a Perfect Book Page Bow
January 25, 2013 by 28 Comments
How to Make a Perfect Book Page Bow It all started with a book page bow banner I made and sold in my Etsy shop…. Another customer saw it and asked if I would make her 100 really small bows that she planned to use on baby shower invitations. “Oh sure – no problem!“, I responded. I do enjoy making them, but my kitchen counter is now decorated with spiderweb-like strands of hot glue, I burned myself a few times, and I {Read More}
Quirky Candle Holder
January 19, 2013 by 32 Comments
Ask anyone who knows me personally, and they’ll tell you I have a few quirks. Quite a few quirks, in fact. So, it’s no big surprise that I like to make things that are a little on the strange side.Last week, I shared 6 projects made out of salvaged chair parts, but I still had quite a few parts left over from the arm chair I dismantled. I had the curved piece that formerly made the front of the chair seat. {Read More}
DIY Family Names Framed Print
January 11, 2013 by 16 Comments
DIY Family Names Framed Print This family names framed print makes a great Christmas or Mother’s Day gift and is so easy and inexpensive to make. I was inspired by some similar ones I saw on Pinterest, and wanted to come up with my own variation of it. I always feel a little bit justified for the time I spend on Pinterest, when I actually *make* something I pinned on one of my boards! To create this, you’ll need a frame, card stock paper, {Read More}
Frosty’s Friends – Sock Christmas People
December 14, 2012 by 7 Comments
I like decorations that you can leave up all winter and these sock snow people are a fun, easy project you can make in about 20 minutes, and you can personalize them to match the members in your family. The only things you need to make them are: a long sock rice buttons orange Sculpey clay hot glue gun Sharpie marker thick string or yarn tiny sticks Optional: flannel scraps for a scarf an apron for a mother snow person {Read More}
Thursday’s Theme – {The Wood Pile}
December 13, 2012 by 8 Comments
Last week, I was in the mood to come up with more projects using the wood from my vast “wood pile”. The goal was to get the wood off my shelf, and turned into useful things, and coat and jewelry hooks are very useful, so that’s what I did with these 4 pieces. A old barn wood piece, became a doorknob “hook”. Another barn wood piece has some new feathered friends, and makes a pretty place to hang jewelry or keys. I {Read More}
Primitive Christmas Stockings & Evil Elves
December 10, 2012 by 22 Comments
I think we have evil elves living in our attic, who are Christmas decoration thieves. Every year, our family somehow has the knack for losing Christmas decorations. Seriously, how do you lose Christmas decorations? I mean, I pack them all up at the same time, and logic would dictate that I put them all in the same place – it’s not like we live in a mansion. But it’s the same story every year – things are missing. This year we {Read More}
DIY Antique Enamel Signs
December 3, 2012 by 50 Comments
Remember when there were lots of blogs offering giveaways for the old style enamel signs by Ramsign? Did win one? Drat…me neither! I even hosted a giveaway for Ramsign, but never did win any that I entered. If you search eBay and Etsy, there are also some antique enamel signs available. Can you afford them? Drat…me either! Long story short, I want an “antique enamel” sign, And have had it in my head to figure out a way to make one myself. It took me {Read More}
