Knotted and Braided Bookmark with Seashells
The other day I was cleaning out a junk drawer and found a bookmark I made a few years ago using thin ribbon and seashells. I figured I could improve on it a bit, and since I also found a couple of shells in…
License Plate Hunt
We are going on a road trip this summer, and while I am so excited for it I also know it will be a lot of driving for the kids, which means I need to stock up on distractions to make the trip more…
A Baby Bunny House
Today was a collaboration between me and my baby girl. She was the architect and I was the engineer on a baby bunny house, and we both did the decorating. What a fun hour we spent while little brother napped.
Beach Pebble Drink Coasters
The other day I was sitting on my bed reading with a cold drink when I realized I needed coasters for the bedroom nightstands. I still had a whole bucket of flat beach stones left over from the mirror I made so I decided…
Front Porch Ashtray
My mother-in-law is coming to visit us from South America for an extended stay, and she’s a smoker. She’s always been very accommodating about smoking outside of our house and she generally goes out onto our covered front porch to smoke. In years past…
Papier-mache Easter Eggs – Finished
I was all ready to write a long post about finishing up these papier-mache Easter eggs, but man am I exhausted! Here’s some photos instead: I used muffin tins to lay out the treats I used to fill the eggs….
Papier-mache Easter Eggs
I’m making papier-mache Easter eggs for Sunday. I saw the idea last year on the fabulous blog Not Martha, and I made these same eggs for my daughter’s birthday party favors last summer (they were ‘dinosaur eggs’ in keeping with the party theme). Its…
Origami Tuesday – Wait, Is That A Thing?
It is now! I had no idea what to do for a project today, so I went browsing on the web and stumbled across some origami. First via Pinterest I found some really cool looking flowers with a YouTube video tutorial but there were…
Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That
I worked on a lot of stuff today but don’t have much completed to show for it. The temperature finally crept above 50 degrees here (well, okay, it was right AT 50) so I got some more paint on the headboard. It still needs…
Evolution of a Bracelet: Beaded Friendship Bangle
I started out with plain knotted friendship bracelets, then I moved on to beaded bracelets, then I made some plain knotted bangles, so the obvious evolution was: Beaded knotted friendship bangles! Oohhh I’m liking this one, and I’ve still got a handful of bangles…
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