This quick and easy project was fun to make with my mom, sister and sister-in-law a few weeks ago.  We sat at one table and stitched while the guys sat at my dining room table and played a game. The pattern comes from this issue of Quilts and More.  I purchased it at my local [...]

Last week my amazing brother and his fabulous wife graduated from BYU.  We had a little graduation party to celebrate their accomplishments along with my brother’s birthday.  I wanted to do something fun to decorate for the party without spending a lot of money. Here is what I came up with. I found a piece [...]

Last year I promised myself a place to read beneath the cherry tree when it blossomed in the spring.   I cannot explain how much I love this tree.  Its branches have gone from buds to blooms in just two days, so today’s task was to keep my promise to myself. A couple of years ago [...]

I’ve been looking for a storage bin to fit a certain spot for a long time.  Recently it occurred to me that I could just make one instead. I used a bleached burlap for the outside and chose a coordinating hounds tooth pattern from my stash for the inner lining. To determine the size of [...]

Easter is a holiday that means more to me with every passing year but I don’t enjoy the thought of spending a lot of money on the commercialized aspects of the holiday.   I see the cute Easter baskets for sale in the stores and think that I could just make my own, but I [...]

Are you like me?  Do you save bits of ribbon from this gift or that bag because it’s just too pretty to throw away? I save ribbon, but sometimes wonder what to do with all these little pieces of beauty. Today I decided to put some of them to use.  I made a bunch of [...]

A month or two ago I spied these cuties in the Pottery Barn catalog: I really liked them, but at $24 (plus shipping) for a set of 4, that was awfully steep. Then I spotted some little 4 inch birds nests at a craft store for 99 cents each, and decided to make my own. [...]

My sister came to town unexpectedly last weekend, so I decided a quick craft project was in order. After bumping into this post recently, I decided to try making my own burlap wreath. I bought a yard of burlap and found an old wire hanger, and we were set to go.  (sorry about the lighting, [...]

I was on the hunt for pillows with some turquoise in them when I found these placemats on clearance at TJ Maxx. I liked the colors and the pattern but I didn’t need more table linens.  And then I thought:  wait, there are four of them.  Why not make pillows with them?!  So they came [...]

Three years ago I purchased this vintage mirror at a yard sale, intending to use it in my girls’ room when our house was completed.  Well, we moved in, and it just didn’t fit the space.  So it’s sat in my basement for the last 2.5 years.  Until this week.  Here’s the before: A close [...]