I absolutely adore St. Patrick’s Day! We make corned beef and cabbage, soda bread, and colcannon and have a big family dinner. In my continuing quest for more wreaths for my front door - I decided this year I really needed to make a St. Patrick’s Day Wreath. I’ve seen some simply gorgeous ones - […]

As soon as I discovered how awesome and easy to work with tulle is - I started to look for more projects that I can incorporate it into. It’s inexpensive, versatile, and it doesn’t fray. Win, win, win! After I finished my ribbon trees - I wanted to try something with tulle in tree format. […]

When I was in my early 20’s my grandma gave me the gift of a microwave potato bag that a friend of hers had made. I thought it was just about the strangest thing ever. A bag to cook potatoes in the microwave? But after I started using it - I realized just how darn […]

I have kind of a thing for snowmen…and mason jars. So when I made those cute little mason jar ring pumpkins for Halloween - I knew that I had to take that same idea and make a mason jar snowman! Now that I’ve worked with the rings a few more times - I also figured […]

My six year old is OBSESSED with pigs right now. And after seeing a friend’s sock monkey - she kept asking if I’d make her a sock pig in a similar style. After putting it off for some time I finally stumbled onto the perfect pair of socks and knew the time was right to […]

I have memories as a kid of making Christmas ornaments with my mom out of styrofoam balls and little scraps of fabric. I loved pushing the pins into the styrofoam because it was so satisfying to see it come together. And after some Pinterest inspiration - I thought that making Christmas ribbon trees would be […]

I’ve seen SO many cute pom pom garlands on Pinterest lately! I knew I wanted to give it a shot because I just love the look of pom poms. They make me think of homey Christmas’ when I was growing up. And they’re so easy and inexpensive to make! And this is a project that […]

You really really need to learn how to make your own magnetic slime because oh my goodness! This stuff is absolutely the coolest!! I only just finally got around to ordering some iron oxide powder and magnets and I sincerely wish I had done it sooner. This is a project involving minimal mess, lots of […]

I have a very enthusiastic five year old daughter who loves to help me make things. A tie fleece blanket is the perfect project for kids like her! She was getting frustrated that she couldn’t help with some of our other projects - mostly things that involved needle and thread or hot glue guns. These […]

  I love the look of a burlap wreath! And seeing how burlap wreaths are all the rage right now, I decided to try my hand at making one. It was a really easy project - but beware, burlap makes you itchy! I picked the simplest technique possible for my wreath which is using a […]