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…
2009 Year of Pleasure #38
One of the many many photos I took of the food I ate during my beach vacation two weeks ago. It was seriously one of the best parts of the trip. Chocolate Hazelnut gelato. I felt like That Girl, strolling…
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,…
2009 Year of Pleasure #37
So You Think You Can Dance!!! I am so obsessed with this show. Man I wish I could do ANYTHING like these guys. Just amazing. I will have to be content to live vicariously through them while I eat my…
Beach Paradise
So. Relaxed. Can’t do laundry. We were put up at this fancy hotel right on the beach. And bizarrely, I was the only spouse who came. Poor Bear and his colleagues got beautiful ocean views, but they were scheduled from…
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…