What inspires you?

I’ve been keeping track of the things that inspire me for quite a while now.  I like to keep track of great ideas and tutorials for crafts, interior decorating ideas, design and infographics, fashion and a whole lot more.  My favorite way to do this lately, has been to use Pinterest.  You can see some…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 11 – Lace Flowers

I really like fabric flowers.  Actually… that might be the understatement of the year.  I LOVE fabric flowers…. So, today’s national craft month project is another style of fabric flowers.  Or… two really.  The biggest thing about today’s project is that I wanted to experiment with lace. I actually ended up with two very different,…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 9 – Simple Elastic Waist Skirt

Today’s craft project is a my first sewing project for national craft month. I don’t normally do sewing projects, because I always seem to have issues with my sewing machine. It’s usually the tension, but this was such a cool project, that I had to try it. This skirt was actually really simple. I took…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 7 – Burnt Silk Flowers

Today I’m going to show you some cute silk flower clips I made over the weekend.  I really like these clips, because they were simple to make, and gave me a nice project for my silk remnants. To make these flowers, I simply cut some circles out of my silk fabric.  I used 3  –…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 1 – Spring Wreath

It’s National Craft Month.  In celebration of this, I’m going to make an effort to do lots more crafting this month… and blog about it.  Hopefully this will get me back in the habit of crafting, and blogging… since I’ve been slacking in both areas lately.  My first project is one that I actually did over…

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Follow Friday – Pamplemousse!

Today’s Follow Friday is featuring the Pamplemousse blog.  Maryam has some great stuff in her blog.  My favorite is Wardrobe Wednesday, where she chronicles her outfits each week. She also has some posts about crafty projects she is working on, such as her tissue paper pom pom experiments. You can also check out her Etsy shop,…

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Wierd Weather and Crafts

So the weather here has been weird, lately… It’s been awfully warm outside until recently, so warm in fact that my Orchids are very confused.  But that’s ok, at least that means that they are still alive. 

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Crafty Tutorial – Dry Erase Board

Welcome to the Crafty Dry Erase Board Tutorial!  This is a simple project that you can do with things laying around your house.  The only thing you may need to purchase is a dry erase marker.

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