Welcome to the 2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop! This year, there are 47 amazing bloggers participating in the exchange. The rules of the challenge were simple: be partnered with a fellow blogger, create a handmade ornament for $15 or under, create a tutorial, and ship the ornament off to a new home! Embrace the spirit of winter! Craft a cozy Wooden Ornament for the winter solstice. I hope my… Continue Reading
Styling a Fresh Winter Mantel After Christmas
We are midway through January, and I only recently de-Christmased our house of all holiday decor. While I love Christmas, I also enjoyed the fresh, clean canvas my home became after packing Christmas away. I normally have a fairly cluttered mantel, lots of pictures and candles and whatnot. Those pictures have been chilling in my office/craft room all Christmas, but when the time came to put them… 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