One of my favorite ways to get inspiration for holiday decorations is to shop around at all the cute stores, find something great but really expensive, and then go home and use it as a jumping off point to make…
Tombstone Softie
You should have seen the face of my friend from the quilt store when I told her why I was buying gray fabric. For some strange reason she seemed to think it was rather morbid to make a stuffed tombstone.…
Candy Corn Softie
My second pattern collection is for a couple cute Halloween softies. For $2.50 you get the patterns for the candy corn and the tombstone, as well as instructions on how to make them. For today I wanted to point out…
Monster Embroidery Patterns
This was a major learning experience for me, but through hours of hunting and pecking, I managed to update my personal website for the first time in mumblemumble years, and even put together a few pdf’s for you to download.…
Glittered Candy Ornaments
I initially had this idea for a Christmas tree, but it was an easy swap out for Halloween. This one will be a perfect fit for my kid friendly, colorful, whimsical tree, but I think a cauldron of these would…
Trick and Treat Canvases
This project was one of those that started someplace entirely different and I only ended up here through a series of failures. I wanted to make a caramel apple ornament, and after that misstep, I went back to the drawing…
Here we go!
I’ve been working all summer long on some fun Halloween stuff, and if I counted correctly, I believe I’ll have a project to share for nearly every weekday in October! It was part of my crafty goal list to create…
Crafters get blisters in the weirdest places
See? How do you get a blister on the outside of a knuckle? By having calluses on all your fingertips and spending a solid week with an exacto knife in your hand. Although I’ll tell you, the Martha Stewart knife…
Christmas Tree skirt recovery
I’ve been working on the tree skirt for our Family Traditions tree for years now. Like, lets see…holy cow. Six years. I just counted. It took a few of those years to get the beading finished in between other projects,…
Decorated Bath Towels
Amy Butler’s In Stitches has a really great pattern for embellishing bathroom handtowels with a band of great fabric and a hook to hang it coming out of the bottom. Not content with perfection, I decided to create my own…