Pandora was quite the bald baby her first year. Our grocery store had a $1 bin for hair accessories, so I stocked up on headbands in every color and started putting them on her whenever she'd let me. By 2 she was covered in blond curls, but had come to love headbands & wears them all the time. And so I started searching around Pinterest for some ( Read more... )

Last weekend two ladies and I co-hosted a shower for a church friend who is having twin girls (hey Mache!). One of the things I was in charge of was bringing some flowers for a centerpiece, but there was something that I wanted to make to go along with them.

I kept thinking about these lovely crepe paper rose covered balls, but it seemed like the ( Read more... )

My mother-in-law and nieces worked on fairy houses this Easter. If you've never seen one before, take a look through some of these pics. This is definitely something I want to put together sometime, whether I have a daughter or not! (Sorry Orson ( Read more... )

Here is the mobile I made for Orson's crib!

I used those Teeny Beanie Babies that came in McDonald's Happy Meals years ago (I've had a bag of them sitting around forever), some painted dowel rods and yarn. The thing is huge! I love the way all of the bars weave in & around one another as it swings about.


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Months ago, as we were admiring some pet furniture & toys, my brother-in-law asked, "Why do dogs and cats get all of the fun stuff?". He keeps a small hive of bees & joked about wanting accessories for his 'pets' too. Well, I couldn't pass up such a fun crafting opportunity (and Christmas gift), could I ( Read more... )

I while back I made this little rope-light ball. It's a pretty simple project, just roll the light up and wrap the joints well with some thin wire as you go. I got the rope-light for free forever ago, and was obviously never going to use it in its un-wrapped form, but then I remembered a tutorial that used three connected rope-lights to form a ( Read more... )

This cold is still kicking my butt, pretty hard ( Read more... )

One of my recent custom orders called for a circle ambigram with a Celtic design as the center. I know I have doodled a few Celtic designs in the past, so I understand how the parts weave in and out of one another, but I don't think I've ever created one from scratch with the vector program (the closest I've come would be this design, but that was ( Read more... )

Heart designs have been popular lately! Here are two new ones.

"GB" Ambigram

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