While everyone loves Christmas and all the holidays that come before New Year’s, who can resist getting dressed up and drinking champagne all night? New Year’s Eve is such a fun celebration and a way to start things fresh and new as soon as the clock hits midnight. I made these countdown champagne glasses to…
The holidays are such a wonderful time of year and an opportunity to get creative with entertaining, cooking and decorating. Mostly, I love to make things simple and today’s lesson on how to make pine cone garland will be just that. An easy, quick, not to mention very inexpensive craft you can do to decorate…
You’ve may have noticed that one of my favorite things to do lately is head down into the basement and come up with things to make from the hoard of items in my craft closet. OK, it’s not only a closet, it’s a set of shelves and a bunch of bins too. Filled with stuff…
Welcome to my holiday home tour, where my old house’s halls are decked in my modern style for the season, just for you. Today I’m one of the last stops in a week-long Home for the Holidays Blog Tour, which by now you’ve probably seen a lot of. Us bloggers love to give a good…
This is that time of year when we start thinking of ways to share the spirit of giving with our loved ones by coming up with gift ideas for them. In stead of buying new things at a store, I enjoy making presents I know they will enjoy. And since sewing is one of my…
One place I always forget to decorate for the holidays is on my walls. Sure I put up a tree and display my crafts and decor on the buffet and shelves and other places, but I’ve never actually hung any holiday art up! I was determined to change that this year, so off to my…
Lately I’m loving making things with supplies I have in my craft closet. Once I realized how much material I have, the possibilities of what I can come up with are endless. Especially now at the holidays when I make all kinds of things for my home. When my sister got married a few years…
I just love November since it is so full of cool nights where you can cuddle up with loved ones and otherwise opportunities to gather with friends and family. Not to mention the sweaters, warm tea, and flannel sheets, I love fall! At our house last weekend we hosted a friends Thanksgiving, and that has…
Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. It is all the creepy, scary goodness I just love about the fall, plus it’s my birthday eve! So I couldn’t resist making a little Halloween craft to decorate the dining room. Come see how easy it is to make a Spider Web Table Runner, using…
Over the past few months I picked up bunches of holiday ornaments to use in my decorating and craft projects. Ornaments of all sizes and colors. They worked great for decking the halls, but when I went to put them away I had a hot mess on my hands. Ornaments all over and no way…
Clearly this year I have an infatuation with making trees. First a feather one you saw in my dining room, then a felt one last week at Redhead Can Decorate. And today I’ve made even more. I guess what I love about these is that they are more of a winter decoration for the home…
We are lucky enough to have a beautiful old staircase that is original to our old house. It’s actually a split staircase, so there are two flights of stairs that go up, then meet at a landing and one set that goes to the second floor. I showed some pictures of it here. {We still…