Not only is it already November, Thanksgiving is in less than a week! Yikes, where did the year go? To celebrate the holidays, Eileen Hull and DCWV are having a Winter Wonderland Blog Hop featuring Eileen's splendid dies and these beautiful holiday paper ...
Gift Baskets 101: Candy Basket
Okay, my teeth hurt just looking at this gift basket. This is a gift basket for the kid in all of us — a candy gift basket in which even the basket is made of candy. Willy Wonka would be so proud. Your dentist, not so much. The foundation for the baske ...
School Supply Cake — The Ultimate Teacher Appreciation Gift
When I was in school, I was always teacher's pet. But wow, I would've really gotten brownie points if I had brought this school supply cake to class. This “cake” made of school supplies is filled with items teachers can actually use — pencils, crayons, gl ...
7 Florist Secrets for Easy and Beautiful Floral Arrangements
It used to be that if you wanted a beautiful floral arrangement for your home, or to give as a gift, you went to a florist. Nowadays, because of the lower cost and greater convenience, more and more people are picking up flowers at the supermarket instead ...
How to Make Paint Swirl Ornaments
Let's have a paint swirl ornament party! It's really fun filling these clear ornaments with paint and swirling them around to get beautiful marbleized patterns. For the step-by-step instructions, see my tutorial on eHow. And here's a one-minute video I ...
DIY Millenium Falcon Christmas Ornament
A while back, the talented designer Sandra Evertson sent me some of the items in her Relics and Artifacts line of cast resin. They look so beautiful on their own, I wasn't sure how I would decorate them. But with Star Wars fever in full swing just days un ...
Neil Sedaka “Tzedakah” Box
My show "Style with a Smile" airs on the Home+ channel in Israel, so I'm pretty much an honorary Jew. I've been been learning a lot about Jewish traditions, and one of them is a Tzedakah box. Tzedakah means charity, which is a fundamental mitzvah in Jewis ...
Prank Packs: My Favorite Find at the National Stationery Show
I was recently in New York for the National Stationery Show/Gift It/Surtex show. There was a lot to see, but I have to admit that a lot of it blended together, and after a while my eyes started to glaze over. Some of the trends I noticed: hipster typeface ...
3 Ways to Personalize Gift Wrapping with Craft Attitude
I have a thing for pretty gift wrap. Brown paper packages tied up with string are great if you just got out of a convent. I like something with a little more style. One way to amp up your gift wrapping is by personalizing it with photos. I recently had a ...
Succulent and Berry Holiday Centerpiece
Succulents are the hot trend in floral arranging, and it's no wonder. They are not only gorgeous, the cuttings can be replanted when you're through with the arrangement. This was a holiday centerpiece I created for eHow. See the step-by-step slideshow tut ...