When you stumble across 25 vintage glass milk bottles at Goodwill and can’t pass them up, what can you do with them? (Besides enjoying taking pictures in the morning sunshine?) How about a cookies and milk kit? This was too much fun to make and send to friends from far away!
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Cookies and Milk Kit
Posted in Tutorials on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Book Purse
Posted in Tutorials on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The large stack of Readers’ Digest Condensed Books I got last year at the tail-end of the library sale for a song has brought me endless pleasure. And not from reading, either. The bits of text I could comprehend while gutting the books seemed to me to mostly consist of scandal, murder, fornication, etc. But [...]
Paper Flowers: A Tutorial
Posted in Tutorials on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
These particular ones are easy, fast, and appeal to those of us who would rather crumple than fold. However, I’ll show a few different styles in my next post to get you googling more tutorials . . . or just make up your own pattern! You’ll need: Old book pages, scissors, wire, Styrofoam balls, wire [...]
Fairy Dolls
Posted in Tutorials on August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There are few things more magical than making fairy dolls with little girls. I followed a tutorial online, with modifications of our own, of course.
Old Shutters = Linen Pinboards
Posted in Found Objects, Tutorials on February 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This isn’t a full tutorial, because I didn’t take pictures as I went. It’s mostly pictures of the finished product: a shutter-turned-pinboard. Materials: Shutter, with wooden slats ripped out (shutter!) White paint, sandpaper, watercolor Linen (I used an old wrap skirt from Goodwill) Foam board Hardware for hanging Take your shutter, paint it white, and [...]
Leftover Starbucks tea bag = another drink the next day
Posted in Cheap dates, Tutorials on January 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The other day, I ordered a tall Vanilla Roobis tea latte at Starbucks. And as I took off the lid to add some more vanilla powder and sugar to my drink, I was struck with the size of the teabag and realized I could totally get at least another drink out of this latte. So [...]
Pottery Barn Book Bundle Look-Alike
Posted in Found Objects, Tutorials, Uncategorized on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you will know that the only thing I love more than pouring over Pottery Barn catalogs is recreating PB style on the cheap. These book bundles caught my eye . . . . . . as well as the price. $39 a bundle, for four books [...]
Chai Latte Kit
Posted in Cheap dates, Tutorials on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Happy new year! I’m starting off the new year with a few Christmas gifts I couldn’t post before the holiday, because they might get seen by the recipients. First up we have a chai latte kit. I love chai lattes. I used to order them from Starbucks more often before I discovered how to make [...]
Love Board
Posted in Tutorials on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I painted this word as a finishing touch on a friend’s project. (He made a wooden board, painted a grid on it, and had me paint the word “love” on the top. Now he’ll put a sticky note for his wife in the square of each grid, one for every day of the month.) How [...]
Found: Awesome Clock Tutorial
Posted in Found Objects, Tutorials on August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Someone after my own heart is looking through the Pottery Barn catalog too! Check out this lovely tutorial.
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