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 [...]
Newsprint Art
June 14, 2011 By 5 Comments
So totally up my alley, I could have made it. But I didn’t. Featuring the work here of Dom, from Sydney, Australia. Cool chick. Totally love it. Yes, this is easy. Actually, this is a project to file for when the kids are home, for weeks,, during the summer vacation. Let them help with the [...]
Recycled Juice Box :: Tote Bag Pattern
May 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
Going green does not mean boring. It means Stylish! This Recycled Juice Box pattern is the ’living’ proof of how recycling has taken on a whimsical, upcycling, refashion-tangent and that there’s no going back! Great project to make this summer, but you got to start saving your used juice boxes now as you’ll need 20 [...]
Build Your Own Birdhouse
May 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
This adorable birdhouse is the culmination of a few different craft techniques: creating floral wall art from toilet paper rolls, making a beaded accent charm, and painting, stenciling and decorating a birdhouse. What makes this wall decoration work is repetition of color, shape and pattern. The How-to How to Make Toilet [...]
Beach Cottage :: Craft, Diy, Home Decor :: Linky Party
May 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Crochet Beach Tote Bag :: Free Pattern
May 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
This adorable string bag is just a perfect project for crochet beginners: it looks really fun and is ultra easy to put together. There are 5 components to this bag: the base, the body, the top rim, the cord, and the flower embellishments. The bag has a diameter of 7“ (18 cm) and 11.5” [...]
Butterfly Prints
April 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just added some great summer art prints to our Butterfly Crafts collection. This gorgeous vintage butterfly clip art originated from a 1880’s Natural History Butterfly print (four stages of butterfly transformation). Butterfly Craft Resources Collection How to Make a Simple Butterfly Mosaic (free tutorial) Butterfly Soap (for inspiration)
DIY CRAFT TUTORIAL Linky Party :: STAIRS
April 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
This idea of link lists instead of pages and pages of image is growing on me. Now I feel it’s time to start building some categories, so that it’s easy to find things and to borrow ideas from each other. So, as of today, we’re going to do things a bit differently, as follows: 1. [...]
Spring DIY Home Decor Craft :: Linky Party
April 13, 2011 By 3 Comments
This idea of link lists instead of pages and pages of image is growing on me. Now I feel it’s time to start building some categories, so that it’s easy to find things and to borrow ideas from each other. So, as of today, we’re going to do things a bit differently, as follows: 1. [...]
Craft for Earth Day
March 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
Every year, Earth Day is April 22. Last year around this time, I made a huge effort to find 50+ environment-friendly craft and DIY projects. All these projects look stunningly great and are made of 100% recycled materials. If you are interested in featuring this list on your own blog, please link to this page, [...]
Spring Craft: Butterfly Pop-up Card
March 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
First day of Spring, let’s do something happy. Make this Spring greeting card with a cute paper-cut butterfly, within minutes. So simple to make, so lovely to get. How-to Make this Pop-up Greeting Card Fold a regular sheet of craft paper in 2, and again in two. Fold it back open and [...]
Shamrock Stamp: Make Your Own Luck
March 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
Typically, just how lucky are you???! Well, you’re in more luck now: Inspired by having loads of unfinished projects, I felt inspired to make something I could start and finish in one sitting and have ever lasting fun with…. What would that be? A Shamrock Stamp (btw. LaGraine makes some excellent wines) [...]
Native American Kid Craft :: Story Necklace
March 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
One of the many rich crafts produced within the Native American culture is a "fetish," or story necklace. A story necklace designed to illustrate history, legends and moral stories with carved creatures representing elements of nature, animals, spirit protectors or ancestors. Each animal has a symbolic as well as a literal meaning. The characteristics and [...]
How to Make Fruit Shaped Beads
February 24, 2011 By 2 Comments
Let’s Pretend it’s Spring….. Saturday I bought our first little strawberry seedling. Full of promise. Completely inspired, as we could not wait for it to bloom, we made these adorable strawberry earrings. How to Make Fruit Shaped Beaded Earrings Materials Needed Self-drying clay Round-nosed pliers Acrylic or kids paint (gloss medium optional) Bead making pins [...]
Personalized Gifts
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Simple inspiring heart desk gift set. 100% Recycled. Sometimes simplest is best: this handmade gift is useful to have and fun to make. Paper Craft How-To (Step-by-step instructions) 1. The tall box: cut a rectangular cookie box at an angle, as in the picture. First cut the lowest side, then the diagonally-cut [...]
Martin Luther King Craft
January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today’s Martin Luther King day and I thought to show you the crafts we’ve featured on the blog before that could be used to pay homage to this wonderful persona. The ‘I have a Dream’ post also tells a bit about why Martin Luther King was so special…. Enjoy your day, and live you [...]
Splendid ‘Silver’ Doilies
January 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
Want to make something new from something 100% recycled? Here’s a great ‘recipe’ for such a ‘something’ that I only discovered by accident. Shhttt… it’s a secret. Silver Doily, 100% upcycled but made of WHAT??!!! The Silver Doilies Secret The secret is: it’s made from a pack of coffee! [...]
How-to: Handmade Fashion Jewelry
December 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Create Cool Kids Furniture w Stencils (Tutorial)
November 9, 2010 By 2 Comments
** How to Stencil Furniture. ** Lovely. Fun. Doable. Those are the three worlds … I mean words… that come to mind when I saw this dresser make-over. You love it also? Image source: Lena Corwin, via Etsy. Free Tutorial On Hand-Printing Your Cabinet This design & tutorial for this contemporary, whimsical dresser is [...]
Face Painting Designs, Ideas & Examples
October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Make-Up That Makes A Masterpiece The key to making a master face painting and a perfect disguise is in the preparation. Besides designing the face painting to suit the Halloween costume, the theme character, plus the shape of the face, there are other considerations ~ not in the least is deciding which face painting to [...]
Kids Room Decorating Ideas
October 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
What’s the verdict: are your kids’ rooms tidy or trash? Or is that toy room driving you nuts? Scream no more. I’ve just made some free and dare I say, gorgeous labels for a princess’ palace tidiest abode. (it was about time, i hear you grind… ha ha). Seriously, by giving kids pretty organizing boxes [...]
Barbie Just Got a Stylish Jewelry Set
October 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
… and Bratz too! Yesterday we just spent a lovely afternoon making bracelets. This jewelry set was to accompany a new Barbie to be gifted that just looked ‘too plain’ according to my little friend. This new Barbie to give away to her buddy for her upcoming birthday (see picture) needed a bit of dressing [...]
Want an Amigurumi Monster ??
September 27, 2010 By 1 Comment
Into monsters? However, for some reason this little creature here caught my eye. Maybe because it is pink??!! Maybe because it reminds me of Niki de Saint Phalle’s monster head sculptures? I loooove this artist’s work, which you can find particularly in museums in Paris & the Cote d’Azur. Anyhow, for some reason I [...]
Sea Shell Picture Frames: Not Just for Summer
September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As I love shell frames year round, I just want to remind you / set you free from any limiting thinking re seashells: seashell frames are not just for summer!!! When brushed with gold and silver paint, (or bronze) they are also appropriate decorations for Fall and as XMAS gifts. And in Spring, you can [...]
How to Make Paper Flowers – Part 2
August 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
My post ‘How to make paper flowers’ is a most popular step-by-step craft tutorial at Fine Craft Guild. I made some new paper flower designs for a recent party, using recyclable materials. Given paper flowers’ popularity, I thought to show you how I made them. And while I’m at it, I’ll show you some other [...]
Celebrate World Peace Day, or How to Make Your Own Peace Pole
July 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I love World Peace Day. It’s September 21, and hopefully every day hereafter. While the UN initiated a world peace day as ‘early’ as 1981, it was not until 2001 that the date was set: The International Day of Peace is September 21. The UN "declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be [...]
DIY Tutorial Linky Party 3
June 23, 2010 By 11 Comments
Crafting World Peace
June 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Want to Craft Peace at Home, in School, on the Beach and in the Office? OK. Here are lots of creative tips and craft ideas to create a personal World Peace Day. The official World Peace day is September 21, but feel free to celebrate peace any other day as well.
Peace Symbols, Pictures of Peace and More: These free craft patterns and designs include Peace Symbols and Pictures of Peace, and offer ideas to make your own versions.
Fathersday Scrapbooking :: Dad Album :: Free Template
June 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nope. You haven’t ran out of time yet to make something personal for fathers day this year. Here’s Rose coming to the Rescue. Last year, one of the Fathers Day projects I (Rose) had in mind was to share a little DAD book with you. It took me until now to finally made one for [...]
Homemade Baby Toys Tutorial
May 21, 2010 By 7 Comments
Nesting Cubes Here is a free pdf tutorial on how to make the most adorable set of nesting cubes, that is an educational baby toy and that would make an ideal baby shower gift. Soft blocks with big bold patterns have to be every new mom’s delight as blocks are a top educational toy. [...]
