Recycled Plastic Bottles to Awesome Vertical Vegetable Garden
Share We all must learn to grow vegetables. Whether we live in a small apartment without a balcony, a unit with just a small patio, or a luxury house with lots of land. Don’t you think? Growing veggies is easy & fun, once you know how, particularly with the ingenious plastic bottle vertical gardening system [...]
Pallets Around the House
Share You might have recently seen this article with furniture made with pallets whereby we showcase a few indoor ideas on how to use pallets for furniture. And you might have seen Tiffany’s pallet chair \ bench? As the weather is improving, we all want to play outside. What better way than to [...]
Beach Cottage :: Craft, Diy, Home Decor :: Linky Party
Share 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 [...]
Mothers Day LINKY PARTY
Share 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 [...]
Super Simple Summer Skirt :: Free Sewing Pattern
Share Bought some darling fabric to sew myself some Spring & Summer outfits. I have to confess: now that the sun back I’m rather playing outside with my plants and don’t feel like sewing much. But I do need some more light weight summer cloths however. This skirt pattern could not be better: an elastic [...]
Easter Wreath
Share I’m getting ready to create a Easter (egg) wreath, so I did my research. Today I want to share my inspiration with you. In another post I’ll show you what I ended up making myself. To say that I’m getting a bit wreath-obsessed is an understatement. I have about 11 wreaths in my [...]
Spring DIY Home Decor Craft :: Linky Party
Share 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: [...]
Yellow – Pink Color Combination
Share Today, I was challenged to wear pink and yellow as a color combination. My first reaction was that I don’t have any pink/yellow items. However, I managed to create a great outfit out of cloths I haven’t worn for years. I love it. I thought to treat you all the same deal, going [...]
Crafty April Fools Day Prank
Share Create a coffee mess and get away with it. Only this one day…!!! This is an excellent video tutorial on how to be a Pro coffee-spill-trickster this April Fools day. You get to fool people the whole day, easily. Even if you are not so ‘into these things’, prepping for this one is kind [...]
Pleated Handbag Pattern
Share Love this bag in white & Iove this in red. Great style handbag. Contemporary. Practical. What more do you want ‘n’ need in a bag, I’d say?! designer: U-handbag.com –> Download your free pleaded handbag pattern here With this base pattern, many other embellishments are possible. See my Anthropologie Bag- case [...]
How to Make Fruit Shaped Beads
Share 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 [...]
How to Sew a Reversible Beach Blanket
Share Before you go out to buy a beach blanket, consider making your own. This reversible beach aka garden or patio blanket is yet another demonstration that good design does not need to be complicated. Mommy from the ‘1 boy + 1 girl = 1 happy mom’-blog shows us her design. It is as [...]
Spring Paper Flower Topiary – Tutorial
Share Julia at Buzy Bunny has been busy: making this beautiful & whimsical Spring Paper Flower Topiary, and making us a tutorial to boot. I love how simple and yet sophisticated it is. You could use your super heavy, indulgent & beautiful scrapbooking paper for the topiary (see below). This will be [...]
Original Easter Craft Ideas
Share No matter what your craft medium might be, here are 5 original ideas for you: 1. SEWING: Carrots for the Easter Bunny Free Tutorial These great looking carrots give a fun whimsical note to your Easter Brunch table. You can fill them with chocolates and give them as gifts to guests. Or [...]
Chalkboard Easter Eggs as Unique Easter Gift or Table Decoration
Share Want a new look and something totally unique this Easter coming up? I found something really marvelous. Have a look at this chalkboard egg!!! A few chalkboard Easter eggs would make the most surprising Easter table decoration. They are quirky, unique Easter gifts, that can be personalized, and that can be of use year-round. [...]
Crafts to Do on Presidents Day
Share President Washington could not tell a lie. So the story goes. So, he told his dad that he’d hacked the cherry blossom tree. As, practically unbeknownst to the rest of the world, the third Monday of February is Presidents Day, and as it is a federal public holiday in the US, I thought [...]
Easy Textile Easter Egg Craft Project w Free Pattern & Tutorial
Share Looking for great craft ideas for Easter? Look no further, as I’m going to post a bunch of free Easter craft projects at FineCraftGuild.com this year, including free patterns and tutorials. As a start, here is a hip Easter craft project provided free by Retro Mama: Easter eggs made in lovely patterned fabrics.
St. Patrick’s Day Recipe: Shamrock Cookies for Dessert, or Anytime
Share Sometimes, Martha Stuwart’s website is a source for creative ideas. Like when you’re thinking about what activities to do with your little girl at home during spring break, while the wind is gushing 40-50 miles/hr (60-80 km/hr) outside. Well, it will be St. Patrick’s Day this Tuesday, March 17. And so, I was inspired [...]
