Category Archives: Craft Projects

Sweet Little Fairy

Another little miss had her birthday last week.  This young lady loves fairies, so when I saw a tutorial for fairy bendy dolls, I knew what to do! Isn’t she cute? The birthday girl aslo enjoys making things, so I … Continue reading

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Sock Snowmen

Is anyone else out there just a little addicted to Pinterest?  I have only been on the site for the last two weeks, but have found it to be an amazing resource for creative ideas, as well as a way … Continue reading

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Make Your Own Evergreen Christmas Wreath

Last year I shared with you how my mother-in-law taught me how to make an evergreen wreath.  This year we gathered with the whole family (my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, too!) to make them again.  We started our outing at our … Continue reading

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Inspiration

In this moment I have herbs that need harvesting, a project in half-completion in the sewing room, a book half-read whose story dances around my head even when I have decided I MUST leave it and get back to doing … Continue reading

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Pretty Fabric Necklace Organizer

I love necklaces.  I could live without earrings, I usually forget to wear the rings I own, and I have yet to find a bracelet that sits nicely on my small wrists, but an outfit seems incomplete without a necklace. … Continue reading

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Starting the Year with Giving

Do you ever happen upon a blog and something about the writer makes you decide you just have to add it to your daily blog reading?  That’s what happened with me and Keri who writes Quaint and Quirky.   Three things … Continue reading

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Making an Evergreen Wreath

I am truly blessed with wonderful family.  With my own family members living a few provinces away I feel lucky to have been welcomed into hubby’s family with open arms.  His parents, brother and sister-in-law are all wonderful people who … Continue reading

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Quick and Easy Fabric Magnets

I like to keep a magnetic pad of paper on the fridge for recording grocery items we need to buy.  This makes it easy to write down what we need, as we run out of it.  Otherwise I am bound to … Continue reading

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Menu Planner Tutorial

I would be lost without a menu plan.  I have become so used to making one that the few times I have gone to the grocery store without one I wandered around having no idea what to buy!    So every week … Continue reading

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Thank You Cards

My mother taught me how to write thank you notes when I was very young, in response to far-away relatives who sent me gifts at Christmas.   It has become such a habit that  the Christmas season is just not complete until the … Continue reading

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