Little makes a room look more festive than a colorful garland, and festive is exactly the look I wanted for the playroom. I wanted to use fabric, but I definitely have more paper scraps lying around than fabric scraps. Use what you got, right? (Small confession: I did buy a two new pieces of paper […]
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Ugly craft makeover: Birdie cutout
One of my new favorite things to do is to take an outdated piece of craft and give it an update. I’m calling them my ugly craft makeovers. You can find more tagged as such. I found this wooden bird cutout sign at a thrift store for 80 cents. Cute, maybe, in like 1986. But […]
Elise’s playroom featured on Apartment Therapy!
Elise’s playroom was featured on Ohdeedoh today! So exciting! Totally makes up for the Elise + diet coke + laptop incident of yesterday. (Don’t worry, the laptop survived.)
Handmade Gift Challenge 2010: The Results
As you’ve seen in the past few weeks, I was quite busy making Christmas gifts last year. I started in July with a few things, but didn’t get serious until November. My plans for making Dan and Elise larger gifts fell through. Overextended myself. I don’t think they mind though. I hadn’t planned on sewing […]
I like you, you’re silly painted sign
That’s something I’ve been telling Elise since she was able to stick her tongue out. I had a couple more pieces of cherry wood hanging around and decided to use them to make some long and skinny artwork to go over the couch. I sketched out a scalloped border along the bottom. I planned to […]
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