As I’ll begin showing you tomorrow, I’ve completely revamped our usual Family Traditions tree, and since I was all kinds of excited about it, I had to keep the love going and make the gift tags for this year match…
My Christmas decorating manifesto
Let’s wrap up this snowfall tree, shall we? So earlier this year I showed you the garland for this tree, we’ve covered fancying up existing ornaments, I shared the quilled snowflake, the polymer clay ornament, and the beaded snowflake, and…
Beaded Snowflake Ornament
These were some of the original ornaments I made nearly ten years ago for our first Christmas tree. Like most of my best ideas, they needed to be cheap, easy to make in quantity and make a big impact on…
The Humble Polymer Clay Ornament
I think there are two types of ornaments. The stunners that look beautiful on a hanger, and the workhorses that look beautiful on a tree. Today’s ornament is a definite workhorse. When I was contemplating a snow themed tree, I…
Quilled Snowflake Ornament
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.…