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 ...
Gift season is around the corner! One fun gift to put together is a gift basket. They cost a lot of money in stores, but assembling one yourself is a lot more affordable, and it's a lot easier than you'd think. My secret is foam, wood skewers and glue dot ...
This month, my friend and craft wife Eileen Hull gave those of us on her inspiration team an assignment of making a card. Well, that's easy, right? I make cards with Eileen's Sizzix dies all the time. But as I frequently do, I overthought it and came up w ...
I know it's not even Halloween yet, but my mind is already on Thanksgiving. So here's my first project of the Thanksgiving season — nut or candy cups in the shape of a turkey. They would also make cute place cards, too. I made them with a variety of Si ...
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 ...
I recently saw the Julian Fellowes miniseries "Doctor Thorne" on Amazon Prime (which I binged in one sitting because it was that good), and the women in it wear the most glorious floral crowns. So of course I had to make one for my dog Fosse. Fosse loo ...
This month, our challenge for Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team was to create a party idea using one of her dies. I promised Eileen when I joined the team that I would try to think of really quick and easy ideas, but the last two projects I did were kind of ...
I don't attempt sewing projects very often. The thought of taking out my sewing machine, even if my sewing machine is a cute orange color, gives me heart palpitations. There's the fear that I may have to change the spool, or thread the bobbin, and then pu ...
Our challenge this month for Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team was to create a project using her Sizzix dies in collaboration with Crescent products, in particular the new Crescent Photo Mat Art Board. Here's what I used — the XL Square Box die and the 11 x ...
I don't know why I can't resist a cute dog bed, since my dogs would really rather sleep in mine. But here's one I just made that is super cute, made from an old rubber tire. Did you know you can get old rubber tires for free? Just go to your local tir ...
