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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
