Have you missed me? I have missed you! I have been busy over on A Home for Crafts making Christmas decor DIYs for our livingroom. The result - 6 projects that I am really happy about and I can't wait to show you. Be sure to follow ...

Today is the last of our four weeks of Dare to DIY. I never met a challenge I didn't like and this has been so much fun. Today's project is a continuation of my white and brown nature inspired Christmas. I started out right aft ...

Let's get some presents under that tree. And why not make them handmade. I love to give edible gifts and then do a craft around the gift wrapping. I made a 'berry Christmas' strawberry candy with liquorice in the center. Then I ...

Well, here we are at the first of four craft parties for the holidays. Here is what my co-hosts and I have been cooking up for the first challenge: Dare to be thankful. My Merci Beaucoup fall vignette, Crazy Thankful sign by Mic ...

I am so excited to be over at Brooklyn Limestone today. If you are visiting from over there: Welcome! Thanks so much, Stefanie, for having me today. This year, I made five new projects for our Halloween front door. Here they ar ...

I am so excited to be over at Brooklyn Limestone today. If you are visiting from over there: Welcome! Thanks so much, Stefanie, for having me today. This year my Halloween door wreath is all about a geometric take on a spider w ...

Before we get to today's post, I want to give a big warm fuzzy thanks to a couple people for giving me a heads up yesterday that the May issue of Better Homes and Gardens is now being shipped and that my Powder room turned full ba ...

This is the other project I used my new snowflake punch for. I love how over sized it is. The first project I used it for was a garland for my Christmas mantel. I found some wooden roof shingles at the craft store in the sect ...

If someone gave me a jingle bell and asked me to come up with an ornament, this is what I would make. I know, because that is the challenge we posed among a group of bloggers. I will post links to everyone else's creations ...

This year I was in the mood or an all white mantel. Last year, I made a hand felted garland which was multi colored. This year, I put that garland on my tree. Instead I then made this paper snow flake garland for my mantel. T ...

Is there a better time to show you the advent calendar that I made for my son this year than after we are already half way through it? No, right? So here it is. I used a mix of brown paper bags and gold and white striped bags ...

I think these trees will look just darling on my Christmas dinner table this year. They will be part of a bigger ensemble, but I think they are also really cute on their own. A couple of weeks ago, B and I went on a wilderness ...

source, source This year, B decided to go as Ness from the 1995 video game Earthbound. B giving you some Ness realness here B had the red cap from his Super Mario costume a few years earlier. He reused it and spray painted ...

I don't feel great about handing out candy at Halloween that I wouldn't even eat myself. I have done it, but it doesn't feel great to me. Here are 5 reasons that I don't like most of the super marked candy: 1) Artificial Color ...

So many treats are being passed out on Halloween and I will be back with one of those a bit later, but aren't we missing some tricks? Where the tricks at? Well here is one. And it is super fast to make, mainly because I made the t ...