I certainly don’t want to downplay the significance of Thanksgiving but I just haven’t been inspired to create anything decorative.  My creative juices are more focused on Christmas.  While I’ve held off as long as possible, I just had to share my recent project.  I’m very sure I’m not the first to start creating Christmas related [...]

Pin It     I’m sure wreath making is not my forté but since I keep finding the forms pretty cheap, I’ll keep trying.  Here is what I did with some Goodwill and yard sale forms I found. Please note:  While I don’t expect you to find the exact same things I do, I hope [...]

  Last week on a trip to my favorite thrift store, I found a place mat for 25¢.  Well, let me re-phrase that.  I thought I had two place mats.  Even the guy who rang up my order thought I had two.  He was going to charge me for two anyway, until the lady putting [...]

  I recently saw an art project using pressed pennies in a shadow box frame, which made me start thinking about my small collection.  But I’m generally not an exact copy-cat.  I like to take an idea and run with it in my own direction. In this case, I have the darling hubby to thank. [...]

Since it’s Sunday I’ll keep this short and sweet – I had soooo much canvas leftover from making the replacement seats for the directors chairs (see here).   I went ahead and made several pillow covers for some pillows I already had on hand. some rubber stamps…. some acrylic paints   Three new pillows!   [...]