Difficult Coloring Pages: Mandala with Easter Eggs & Butterflies
Tons of easy Easter coloring pages to be found online (We created a free one online last year for you).
However difficult coloring pages, with nice butterflies and Easter eggs in an interesting mandala, those are hard to find. So, we designed one for you.
Here is your own free, original, difficult Mandala coloring page [...]
Ideas for Easter Decorations
Get a head start this year. Easter is around the corner. Making this a fun-filled holiday means getting prepared early enough so that you can actually enjoy all those preparations and craft projects that invariably come along with Easter brunches, Easter egg hunts and other Easter parties.
Here are some of the projects we featured last [...]
How to Make An Art Journal
Today I want to feature a lovely series of videos on how to make an art journal.
Millande from Millande.com creates page after page layout in her journal,, using all kinds of art making techniques that range from painting to collage. But best of all, she shows us how to just do it, hum-ti-dum, on a [...]
Cool Girl Craft: How to Make Elastic Hair Ties
What to do on a rainy weekend? ???!!! Oh, it’s easy: bejewel a plain, ordinary crunchy* into a work of art.
How to Make a Jewel Crunchy/Hair Tie
Here is how ~ it’s a simple formula:
1. Find some seed beads.
2. Find some matching colored sequins
3. And some thread (and a thin (jewelry) needle)
4. Any plain old [...]
Beading Technique: How To Knot a Pearl Necklace
Last week, I went to the Saturday market in a little neighboring town called Civita Castellana, Besides being a hub for artisan ceramics, this town was actually founded on the fact that it was the perfect stop between Florence and Rome.
On the grounds of this ancient trading place, today is still a very large Saturday [...]
Book of the Month – February – Kids Craft
Today, I don’t just want to promote just one book, but rather a whole slew of them: Klutz Kits.
Their books are not normal books, but craft project books that often come with tools and materials to make the projects described within. My niece and I have come to look for their books at any North [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day All
Well, now that the day is finally there:
Happy Valentine’s Day
And Happy Chinese New Year to you all!
(image: Valentine Cards Garland)
Wrapping Up Gifts with Unusual Recyclables
I wrote this post with bulk Valentine’s day gift wrapping in mind. However, then I realized that gift wrapping with unusual recyclables is something to do AT ALL TIMES. Green gift wrapping is not only good for the environment, it’s good for the soul. Creativity soars and whimsy emerges.
It is amazing what you can [...]
Alternatives to Long Stemmed Roses for Valentines
I just wrote a little something for the folks of ezine, offering some original alternatives to classic long stemmed roses as a Valentine’s Day gift. I referred to the many paper craft ideas featured here on the blog, such as stamping and stenciling with roses & hearts. As well, I hinted to some ideas that [...]
Original Valentine Cards
Oh, the pressure of Valentine, year after year…. Most men dread the day or rather the implied obligation, I think.
Looking beyond the social obligation, however, I think all want to do something kind and ideally, we’re all looking for some real originality? Something really NON-frilly, yet romantic? This is tough to find this, [...]
How to Cut a Paper Heart Doily
Who said a doily has to be round? Want a heart instead & wonder how to cut a paper heart doily? Easy. Just do as you’d normally do with a circular paper doily.
Step-by-Step Paper Doily Making Tutorial
1. Fold a rectangular piece of paper over (resulting 2 long rectangular blocks). Cut the outside of the [...]
Heart Shaped Wreaths
Romance in the home. 60 2.5” fabric circles, a cardboard box lid, a fabric pen, pencil, scissors, and a glue gun (or thread & needle) and say 59 minutes later …
and you’ll have this: a warm heart at home.
How To Make This Valentine Wreath
Use a sturdy or thicker fabric such as felt, but do [...]
