This weekend is the Oscars, and I'm always looking for fun party ideas. I saw this idea for Popcorn Cupcakes on Tikkido.com, but I wasn't getting a good internet connection so I couldn't load the instructions. Therefore, I did it my own way. And if you tr ...
This month, Eileen Hull's design inspiration team worked with her fun line of Colorbox Blends from Clearsnap. If you've ever used an ink pad upside down to color, you know how hard it can be. But with these Colorbox blends, you get maximum control because ...
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi Eileen Hull, you're my only hope — to make a R2D2 card for Valentine's Day. As a member of Eileen's inspiration team, our assignment this month was to create a card using her Sizzix dies. Looking through my stash, I picked up the S ...
I volunteer with JoyCatchers, a great nonprofit organization that decorates and donates miniature holiday trees to seniors, veterans and hospice patients. Now that it's Chinese New Year, which is all about joy and luck, how appropriate then to decorate a ...
I've made a lot of towel cupcakes as gifts and done several tutorials on them, including a popular video for my Style With a Smile web series. I've used several types of cupcake wrappers — silicone baking cups, store-bought cupcake wrappers, and DIY wrapp ...
Tired of boring white or beige switch plates? You can add more pizazz to your décor by personalizing switch plates with your own photographs and designs. You might feature pictures of your family or pets, show off the logo of your favorite sports team, or ...
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 ...
I'll be demonstrating how to make gift baskets for the holidays for Hometalk on Facebook Live Wednesday Nov. 2 at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.
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 ...
This gift basket for people who love to cook is one of my favorite baskets to assemble. I once made a gazillion of them (okay, that's an exaggeration, but it felt like that), for a gala dinner in which gift baskets were centerpieces instead of flowers, so ...
