Don’t forget to check yesterday’s  post for Valentine Soap Give Away!

 

Somewhere in the last number of years and the last thousand people in our home, somewhere along there, my leather sofa received a big ugly gash, kinda like a knifing.  And nobody’s fessing up.  At first it didn’t look too bad, but as [...]

 

Here’s a great project for any time of the year, for adults or kids. My mother-in-law has been making gorgeous soap for a while now and came across the idea of felting soap. Basically you are creating a washcloth around your bar of soap that will shrink around the bar until it is all used [...]

My little mouse has been running around on a book so I thought I might get a real mouse pad for it.

 

If you are at all like me, I come across fabric I just love all the time.  I hold it and think long a hard about  just what it is that I would [...]

With at least twenty-one people gathering for Christmas dinner, it’s just nice to know where you’re supposed to sit.  These ideas could easily allow for little helpers to pitch in.

Some of the photos have links to the site for instructions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought you all might like these French bread bags and if you have the teensiest bit of sewing knowledge they will be a cinch to make.  It is another way to make and and another use for the bread bag shown in the previous post.  They are perfect hostess gifts to take to all [...]

Our family is a big fan of fresh baked bread…  straight from the store.  Serving it in a linen bag is a lot cuter than paper.  And a white linen bread bag is just the thing to add to a gift basket for someone this Christmas.

I dismantled the paper bread bag from the store [...]

You thought I was nuts when I started making homemade laundry soap. Well, you were right. That stuff kind of sucked. But I have a new, totally worth-while, homemade project that will not disappoint. I’ve been happily using homemade fire starters for almost a year and they are fabulous. Particularly if you are heating your home with [...]

Their pictures became quite creative. Here we have a little witch under a full moon.

 

Because darkness can’t come soon enough at this house on Halloween day, I got together a little craft for the kids and think your kids might enjoy it too.  For the project you just need graph paper and colored pencils. [...]

Here's what I came up with.

I’m not really going profesh and all that but I have done enough photo shoots now that I needed a lovely way to package the CD’s that I burn.  When I shipped off the wedding photos that I took in a jewel case (honestly the jewel cases are ugly) [...]

on my kitchen counter?

These items have taken up permanent residence on my kitchen counter.

And the stuff just keeps accumulating.

Matthias found the perfect feather, a pheasant feather , on the road and quick stuck it in his fishing hat.

The U.S. Govt. canvas bag holds his water bottle for excursions.

The firecrackers are for entertaining his nephews.  [...]

Thanks to our new kitchen table we’re having fun playing tic-tac-toe over breakfast.

It screamed for paint. . . but what color?

I wanted black so I decided I would give chalkboard paint a try.

Maybe not the most aesthetically stunning of choices, but it's fun. And surprisingly durable too. I figure when it starts [...]

 

Just in the nick of time I grabbed this out of my "give away" bag for a second chance at life. It was a pillow case that my grandmother had embroidered two lifetimes ago and was frayed having lost the large pillow case border hem. It just didn't work for [...]

Grimy little spots from milk, popsicles, and bubble blowing soap.

I decided my back porch needed a face lift and I have always loved the stained concrete look.  That was the solution.  Eric usually pales when I bring up home improvement projects, but this one he was on board with.

For your benefit I used [...]

These past few weeks have been super busy for all of us.  I imagine everyone is beginning to venture outside again for spring time activities.

One indoor activity that I keep up with is reviewing books and other items for Amazon.  My most recent was a pair of hair clippers.  I was super excited about that [...]

I have been on the lookout for a table that I would use solely for painting, and could leave my in-progress works on and NOT have to clear it away for dinner.  I have always painted at the kitchen counter or on the dining room table and would have to clean it all [...]