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Valentine-ish Pendant This week I was inspired by a blog called Craft-Werk (Sonja from Dublin, Ireland). She posted a tutorial about using recycled earrings (the lonely single earrings from all the lost pairs) to create pendants. I so happened to have some lonely broken bead type “junk” laying around. Feeling justified here for keeping every [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Outdoor Decor on the Cheap How To: Arrange citrus slices, cranberries, evergreen sprigs in a brownie pan or muffin tin Add warm water (enough to cover the items in the pan) Plop some twine in the warm water (creates hanger) Freeze pan of water outside or in your freezer Place pan in a bit of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Christmastime Decor is on the way to the Attic I packed away the tree and cleaned the house. I feels good to get a fresh start on the new year without the beautiful *clutter* of Christmas. Before I say goodbye to this season’s Christmas, I thought I’d post about a few of my favorite things… [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
But, wrapping gifts with paper bags is delightful… Let me warn you, if you start to wrap gifts with paper bags, ribbon and jingle bells and you have some sort of brown-paper-packages-holiday-sickness (like I do), you’ll wrap and wrap until you have to dump out your recycling bag to get more paper. Like I did…er, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I *Heart* empty frames. The transformation power is limitless. Here is what I did with a pitiful oak 8X10… Love, Jess
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
So many good things start with the phrase, “So, I had this old sign from a thrift store”, don’t they? Here is a good example… I also clipped the huge raffia bow and wire hanger off of the sign. Just as I was feeling proud that I was showing Molly about the alphabet…she stole sips [...]
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Friday, February 5, 2010
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