Category: Arts and Crafts

Looking for an inspired thanks giving practice? Look no further than Day Schildkret and his gorgeous book: Morning Altars.

It was my roommate in college who first re-introduced me to coloring as an adult.  In coloring books.  You know, Beauty and the Beast, whatever Disney or otherwise

I’m feeling another ladies art night coming on.  It’s one of my favorite things to do– get together with other women friends for an evening, drink wine or

I love making gifts.  Here’s one I made for a girlfriend of mine. For the image I used watercolor pencils— which I love because you can draw fine

You know those little magnetic poetry sets you can get.  Like this:   Well, I love them.  My favorite use of them lately is creating car door poetry.   Never

Here’s a pic of my latest backyard creation. Piece of plywood, painted with two coats of chalkboard paint.  Tiny corner images added with acrylic paint later.  And voila–

I’ve had this idea for a while. I keep these kinds of ideas jotted down in a craft idea notebook I have simply because the idea having doesn’t

This plus that.  (Update… it equals a fun thing… but time has shown that regular Sharpies, baked or no, will not hold.)  (Then bake for 30 minutes at

One thing I absolutely love doing is making and sending fun mail to people. It’s such a surprise to get something in your snail mailbox these days—and who,

Yarn bombing makes me happy. Have you ever heard of yarn bombing?  I just discovered it on accident.  I was making a fire with my neighbor’s recycling when