Baby Photo Cube Given that my side job to my day job and my blog job and my mom job ( lost yet?) is making Birthday Blocks, its pretty understandable that a go-to gift idea for a friend’s new baby is something in block form. Right? Right. When my best friend had her third baby girl, I thought a cute little photo cube would make a nice decorative… Continue Reading
DIY Wall Art with Photos: Travel Memories
*This post contains affiliate links* I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who loves a “travel” theme in home decor. Hundreds of home magazines would immediately negate such a claim anyway. I do have one small idiosyncrasy about using travel in my own home decorating – I only want to use my own pictures. So I had to come up with a DIY approach to wall art that… Continue Reading
Printable Valentine Tags & Freebies
Super quickie post, but I just had to share! (And brag, let’s not be coy.) Tonight I’ll be throwing together all the little stickers/candies/trinkets I ransacked the dollar store for to make Valentine goodie bags for my son’s daycare class tomorrow. Cookies have already been baked for the teachers, awaiting frosting. (Poor teachers, I hope they don’t punish my kid for my inferior baking skills!) Cricut‘s Cut It Free last week… Continue Reading
DIY Portrait Wall Hangings
Early last year, I came up with what I thought would be a nice gift for my mother, and a chance to play with picture crafting ideas. In a hybrid of Pinterest-y ideas, I decided to try to put my grandmother and grandfather’s portraits on canvas for her. SPOILER ALERT: It did not end well. Well, at least not the first time. Lemme back up – the first challenge… Continue Reading
Playing with Paint #4: Digital Painting!
Hello All!! First of all, I apologize for my lengthy absence! Thanksgiving + work + baby + hubby + prep for a craft fair next week = post-less for far too long. I certainly don’t like to keep my minions – er, followers – bereft of their crafty reading. 🙂 I have many, many, many posts in the works with all the goodies I’ve been working on, but for a quick “Hi… Continue Reading
