Today I have a big fat tutorial to share with you. It looks really really scary and detailed, but it’s not so bad. Trust me. I’ll hold your hand through the whole thing. I’ve made a ton of these over…
Make it Wonderful
My mother-in-law Sally is not what you would call a crafter. Even after ten years of sharing a family, she still counsels me to buy something I could make just to save myself the trouble. The closest she gets to…
Presenting….the new tree for 2008
This is the view from the bottom of my stairs. Since I caught the Christmas bug, I’ve dreamed of having a little indoor Christmas tree farm. And slowly, slowly, I’m working towards that goal. I’ve been working on this tree…
Snowflake Gift Tag
By now it should come as no surprise that my over-the-top-ness extends to every insignificant detail of Christmas, so I couldn’t think about leaving out the gift tags. Each year I pick my wrapping paper early and buy enough to…
An Assortment of Wreaths
Wreaths seem to be my new obsession. Last year I made some Halloween wreaths, which I still have to share with you, of course, and that kind of launched me into a wreath making frenzy. Just like my garland experience,…
Christmas draped all over the place
Floral design was one of those things that intimidated me for a long time. I’m a self taught crafter, and somehow I thought that there was some mysterious trick to floral design that I just wouldn’t be able to crack.…
Let the festivities begin!
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Mine was a wonder. I got to just zen out in my kitchen with a very patient sous chef, and stuff myself sick. We’re still dealing with leftovers five days later.…
A Crafter’s Christmas starts in July
One of my ultimate goals it to be the house on the block that everyone shakes their heads at come Christmas time. The ones that are so ridiculously over the top that people refer to us as the Griswold house.…
The preparations begin
I take a lot of crap for my creative endeavors. I really need to write up a whole rant on the subject, but lets just leave it for now by saying that for as many years as I’ve been trying…
More Christmas leftovers
OK, OK, even I’m getting a little tired of Christmas by now, so I really need to wrap up some of these things I’ve got sitting around here. I really wanted to keep all the decorations up until the end…