Art & Craft Ideas, How to Tutorials, Handmade Gift
Hiding your creative tools where you need them is not always so easy. As I do art, craft and decorating projects in almost any room of the house, I decided to go around and create creative storage zones in every room. Creative Living Room Storage Knitting and crochet I most definitely do most in the [...]
Back to school is this great ‘season’ to get back organized, not only in aspects of school life, but also in other areas. For this reason, to me, Fall is one of those time that it’s extremely useful to create a bunch of new bags, of different shapes and sizes in matching fabrics so that [...]
Introducing Odiot. Not sure if anyone of you is familiar with this institution, but Odiot is located on 7 Place Madeleine in Paris. A prime prestigious address, befitting for a silversmith of fame since 1690. Silversmith to the French Court In earlier times, Odiot was Napoleon’s silversmith fulfilling orders to the French court. [...]
These coat hangers caught my eye at Paris’ main Flee market. \While I personally have been designing crochet coat hangers, I was enamored by the thought of having these colorful wooden, felted and bead bejeweled coat hangers to cheer up my wardrobe. Which ones are your favorite? I love the ones [...]
Many people in North America have a notion of ‘French Bistro’-style that actually does not really exist. The real-life version is less manicured. Instead of gentle and refined, French cafes in reality are more ‘edgy’. Come have a look. The famous cafe “Les Deux Magots” on Place Saint Germain des Pres, had once the reputation [...]
May you find inspiration in the art of Paris’ world-famous patisserie house, Laduree, who creates refined chocolates, macarons and patisserie which taste exquisite and look like beautiful jewels, and which make glamorous gifts. Artists & artisans throughout time have been inspired by the colors and shapes of food. While renaissance painters may have preferred fruit [...]
Inspiring eye candy with lots of photos for you today. Calling all vintage (and just plain old) suitcases to come to work as storage. Didn’t we all have an old suitcase as coffee table in college? I know I did. There are however more ideas. What’s best about suitcases is that they come in all [...]
I thought to continue the focus on Christmas in July for another week, as I guess last week everyone’s head was still in Fourth of July mode. Win a unique, personalized prize by participating in this special Holiday Crafts linky party. Call for Holiday Crafts: Submit Your Best Project Plans WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO [...]
Win a unique, personalized prize by participating in this special Holiday Crafts linky party. Call for Holiday Crafts: Submit Your Best Project Plans WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO THIS YEAR FOR THE HOLIDAYS? I love to hear about YOUR BEST craft projects, and so I am doing a contest / round-up of what craft [...]
Today’s LINKY PARTY is themed ‘Fourth of July’ or ‘Red, white and blue’ – Party ideas. Come show off your inspirational ideas, completed crafts, home decorating results or DIY tutorials to celebrate the day of Freedom. Best Fourth of July Party Ideas Table Centerpiece Get Flowers for your Fourth of July Party here: Best [...]
Linky Party-time. Last week, I contributed a day’s worth of lessons from my jewelry repair workshop. Today, my Linky Party contribution is an overview of all 50 jewelry articles we have on this site, many of which I bet you’ve never seen before. Bookmark this page for future reference, and link up your own party [...]
Plan ahead for a summer filled with fun activity and learning. Here’s a fabulous list of Craft Books for Kids with summer crafts to learn, to craft, to enjoy. Craft techniques explained and many lessons gained while producing wonderful things for your home, to play with, to give away or to eat. Click link for [...]
I just answered an online question, what’s a Fat Quarter, and thought I should respond to it on the blog instead, as you all might be interested also. Fat Quarters are typically used for quilting and patchwork. They are bundles of fabric that are pre-cut to size. ‘What size?’ you might ask? And this is [...]
Doing anything creative? Show us: it’s Linky Party-time. My contribution to the linky party is today’s Jewelry Repair Workshop. Please do link up your contributions below. Jewelry Repair Workshop – Lessons From Day 1 Today was Day #1 of the “jewelry repair workshop’” that has been desperately needed in our home. I repaired this [...]
Transforming old artwork with a fresh new layer is easily fixed with some artistic use of stamps. However, this is not the only way to make stamps useful. There are many around-the-house & craft uses of stamps where they proof to be oh so handy. 10 Ways to Apply Stamps Usefully 1. Instant birthday [...]
Once you start stamping, there is no stopping, is there? That’s what I found at least. Last night I was preparing for this weekend’s art demonstration. I was using some watercolor paintings in the category ‘misfits & unfinished works’ as the base for some fresh Spring artwork to bring along. What did I do, besides [...]
This guy just has to be every creative girl’s dream: tall and good looking, organized, and best of all: he helps you find stuff as he remembers where you’ve put your things…!! May I introduce you to: … … Mr. ‘Craftbox’ ! This wonderful guy (.. ahem, Craft Storage Furniture) may perhaps be the answer [...]
Canadian Living did it with this darling summer crochet set of a granny square Kaleidoscope shawl and a matching halter top finished with rosette flowers. Darling. Floral & bright, but not too floral nor not too bright. Attractive, but a bit modest also. Just right. How Canadian!!! What do [...]
Today, I just want to know what ya’ll been busy with: gardening, home decorating, redoing the bedroom or the stairs, repainting a mirror, or hand sewing a tutu for Mini…?? Prior Fine Craft Guild- linky parties featured start-to-finish projects. You shared your learning, allowing us to pursue more & more artistic adventures than we could [...]
Today, I’m adding another tutorial blog party to our list of open DIY, CRAFT, HOME DECORATING link parties on this site: FLOWERS. Craft flowers, crochet flowers, flower wall decals, floral decoupage, floral greeting cards, cute girl jackets with flower appliqué, … and a million other DIY, home decorating and craft ideas with tutorials are welcome. [...]
Peruse today’s overview of open DIY, CRAFT, HOME DECORATING link parties on this blog. Join the parties to show-off your own creative splendor. I always review all entries and love what you have made. Over the next week, I’m going to feature a few of them which inspired me! Meanwhile, let’s see what [...]
Time to get ready for the beach, and to slowly start transforming our home into a lovely beach cottage…. I’ve starting early this year in getting my beach gear out. The weather simply has been so beautiful that I simply have to do so. Look where I was last week, on the Italian coast in [...]
Joining DIY & Craft LINKY parties are a great way to share your techniques, tips & howto’s and learn new ideas from others. We’re building a collection of CRAFT & DIY LINKY PARTIES around a range of themes. The party that opens this week is THEMED Mothers Day’. We also feature linky parties below with [...]
Wonder where can I buy the latest Cricut die cut cartridges online? I had a similar question and did my research which I’m sharing with you today. As a beginner with Cricut, I realized that it does not matter if the cartridges were released last week or last year, as I had none yet… So, [...]
I came across these amazing sculpted goose eggs by master carver Alan Rabon just by chance. He has made several eggs for the White House and all carvings are all gorgeous! Alan Rabon is truly an inspiration for any budding artist, as he managed to persevere in making a living from his love for art, [...]
A few weeks ago I was reminded of a neat DIY / craft tool, what I call: texture boards. Texture boards are great ways to help you define your design, no matter what your art or craft project is. The main purpose of a texture board is to create a mood or define a style. [...]
Hi all. I am glad to have some of you come back to our weekly DIY Craft Tutorial Linky party. I love seeing everyone’s ideas and learning a few tips and tricks of the trade of creative artisans. FEATURING TOP 3* CRAFT / DIY PLANS from Party 32 (+ a last minute contributor to [...]
Hi all. I am glad to have some of you come back to our weekly DIY Craft Tutorial Linky party. I love seeing everyone’s ideas and learning a few tips and tricks of the trade of creative artisans. FEATURING TOP 3* CRAFT / DIY PLANS from Party 31 (+ a last minute contributor to [...]
You might have seen thousands of super-cute Cricut craft results over the years, but don’t have a Cricut yourself. It makes sense to first learn how a Cricut machine works before buying one. Here is the load-down. Cricut machines are rather easy to use. Whether you are interesting in buying the Cricut Expression , the [...]
Hi all. I am glad to have some of you come back to our weekly DIY Craft Tutorial linky party. I love seeing everyone’s ideas and learning a few tips and tricks of the trade of creative artisans. FEATURING TOP 3 CRAFT / DIY PLANS ~ from Party 30 Pillow Make-Over, from [...]
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