Tag: simple crafts
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Inspired by Flow Magazine: Ideas for Cards & Art
Get inspired by Flow magazine with these creative ideas for cards and art! Love this creative prompt! I’ll be filling up my art journal with these! I’ve mentioned Flow magazine on this blog before—one of my sisters gifted me their Book For Paper Lovers for my birthday last June. For Christmas, I happened upon the…
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How to Make a Simple Advent Calendar for Toddlers
As December approached this year, I thought it would be nice to make an advent calendar for toddlers that I could do with my daughter. I have a couple paper calendars that I bring out each year but they are somewhat delicate and definitely treasures—one is the exact replica of the advent calendar we had…
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What a Teacher Really Wants for Teacher Appreciation Day
Ah, Teacher Appreciation Day. I grew up in a family of teachers so I had a front row seat in seeing what parents actually made and bought for their children’s teachers each year. For this post, I thought I’d ask my parents which gifts stood out for them (in a positive way!) and what they…
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Make Your Own Embroidered Ornaments
There’s just something about projects that are on a miniature scale that makes them extra cute, don’t you think? I really love embroidery projects and while I am working on one right now that will take me a little more time (but it is gorgeous and well worth it), I wanted to make a fast…
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Guest Post on The Crafty Blog Stalker
I’m so excited to share with you that my post on How to Make Bunting Gift Wrap is being featured on The Crafty Blog Stalker this morning. The picture above is a sneak peek of the fabric scraps I used—you’ll have to click over to Katie’s site to read the rest of the article! 🙂…
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A Box of Memories
This simple box of memories is seriously my favorite gift ever. It works for friends, anniversaries, birthdays, you name it. Love it so much! Several years ago my husband and I packed up our apartment and moved from California to Oregon. We had both lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for many years…
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How to Make a Watercolor Leaf Card
When I was visiting my parents recently, I had the chance to read through my mom’s stack of magazines and new-to-me cookbooks. You read cookbooks too, don’t you? I made notes on a scrap piece of paper as I read in hopes that I would come back and actually make some of the things that…
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Make a Silhouette of Baby
Learn how to make a silhouette of baby with this extremely simple tutorial! No crazy cutting skills or perfect babies (who stay still) required! I have wanted to make a silhouette of my baby daughter since she was tiny but it is not so easy to get a baby to hold their head just so…
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How To Make Cards from Baby Art
Last year we entered the world of coloring. My daughter suddenly went from trying to eat crayons to wanting to scribble and make lines across paper. To give her a little place for her art-making, I took a large cardboard box that came to waist height on her, covered the top with packing paper (basically…
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A Baby Doll Blanket
Learn how to knit a simple baby doll blanket with this pattern. Simple enough for beginners, and they make great gifts too. It’s a warm August evening here in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m knitting. My husband is reading out loud from The Silver Chair and row by row, a baby doll blanket begins to…