I’m beginning to think getting ready for summer is more exhausting than summer itself. I spent the morning brainstorming a list of easy activities that I can have ready or easily have all the supplies for at any time during the summer, and shopping for a few things I needed for some of them. I […]
Make Knitting Needles out of Bamboo Skewers
I have more than enough knitting needles as it is, but I always wanted to try to make knitting needles. Back when I was making stuff from hardware store finds, I was going to make some needles out of dowels, but I came up with something even easier when we were cleaning out the garage […]
End-of-the-Year Teacher Gift: Brown Sugar Foot Scrub
I’ve been kind of in denial about how quickly the end of the school year is coming, but now that the last full week of school for the girl is upon us, it’s time to start thinking about an end-of-the-year teacher gift. This brown sugar foot scrub was something I’d been wanting to make myself […]
Coffee-Stained Paper {Craft Challenge, Day 135}
I have a confession to make: I almost never finish a cup of coffee. I drink some at breakfast, usually make a to-go cup to take when I take the girl to school, drink a little in the car, sometimes have a little while I’m doing chores or other morning things, but then I have […]
Twine-Wrapped Pot for the Garden {Craft Challenge, Day 134}
Last weekend husband bought some mint plants, and they’ve been languishing indoors every since. It was on my agenda to pot them for the past couple of days (you know you can’t plant mint in the ground, right?), but I couldn’t just put them in a pot. I had to make the pot cuter first. […]
Crocheted Storage Basket {Iron Craft Challenge}
This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to make something that could be used for storage. I’ve been crocheting a lot lately, making little bags, and the beginning of a bag looks like a basket, so I decided I wanted to make a crocheted storage basket. In the pictures it’s holding fruit but in reality it […]
How to Make Yarn Out of Old Jeans
There are a lot of things I hold on to just in case they might be useful for some crafty purpose later, and one thing I cannot possibly get rid of is old jeans. There’s a lot of fabric in jeans, and I have this dream that one day I will make a denim quilt, […]