Every year I go into the holiday season with superhuman goals, and more often than not I actually meet them. Homemade presents, family time, baking, and a new Christmas tree nearly every year, this is the season I’ve got it…
Gift Wrapping Ideas: Glittered Gift Tag
I think gift tags are the most important part of a beautifully decorated gift, so that’s where I tend to go all out. And yet I still don’t want to put my money in the gift tag when it could…
Gift Wrapping Ideas: Yarn Embellished Gift Wrap
As any crafter knows, once you fall in love with a medium you want to use that medium in everything you do. Scrapbookers decorate their house with paper, knitters knit up rugs and seat cushions, and embroiderers decorate every surface…
Gift Wrapping Ideas: Spray Painted Gift Wrap
As I was brainstorming gift wrapping ideas, I was thinking about monograms. One of those oldfashioned ones with the giant initial in the middle and covered in fancy scrolls. But I already had two ideas using stitching, so I kept…
Gift Wrapping Ideas: Stitched Gift Wrap
Today’s project is for both the green crafters, and those of you whose gifts have to travel, whether that’s in a suitcase or in a box full of packing peanuts. No matter how carefully you wrap them, you perfect bows…
Christmas Wrapping: How to tie the Perfect Bow
It’s now the week before Christmas and time to admit that what hasn’t gotten done yet might just not get done. So instead of starting another craft project, I wanted to turn my attention to wrapping up everything I’ve been…
Sunburst pencil wreath
I am running behind with my Christmas plans, so I thought it only appropriate that the first gift I share is the present I made when I was running behind at back to school. I kind of wish I’d saved…
Happy Holidays GIVEAWAY!!
This is Pearl. And I love her. In fact, just this weekend when I was with family a heated debate broke out between my Bosch loving cousin and I over the better mixer. It nearly got bloody. I love her…
Christmas Eve Home Tour
. . ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Merry Christmas and Happy Everything to my friends and readers. Thank you all for keeping me company here and caring about us. Your support means more than I could ever say.…
Angel Tree Topper
Here’s my final piece for this nativity tree. The one problem with doing themed trees is that a beautiful angel topper doesn’t usually fit. But with a nativity theme? There’s no way I was missing my chance. This angel is…