Christmas Craft Book – A 100Things2Do Christmas

Last year I wrote a book – you may remember? After months of writing, photographing, editing, re-editing, re-photograping and design the 100Things2Do Christmas craft book was released December 23rd (which broke my heart) because this book is FULL of awesome Christmas crafts, gifts and decor that you can make. Now that we’re early November, with lots […]

Easy DIY Advent Calendar

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I know, I know – you’re going to think I’m crazy with Christmas posts this soon after Hallowe’en – but there is a method to my madness. DIY advent calendars take time to make; you have to gather your supplies, decided on your treats, create a display and then package it all up to look […]

Scrap Wood Christmas Trees

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Amazing Amy and I got together the other week to work on some scrap wood Christmas trees we’d both been pining for since seeing them on Pinterest a year or two ago. I know, a year or two between concept and execution is more Hubby’s speed than mine, but hey, we did finally get around […]

Hallowe’en Decor – Beware sign

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Did I tell you I bought a scroll saw the other week? Yup, I picked up a cheapo on Kijiji (the Canadian equivalent of Craig’s List) a couple of weeks ago, then three days later I noticed my Step-Dad had a brand new scroll saw (still in the box) in his garage. Scroll saw number […]

Paper Art

I don’t feel like I did this project justice.  The hexagonal art piece that this stemmed from is much more inspiring, and Amazing Amy’s circle piece has great colour and balance… but since I went to the effort to make this piece of paper art, and since it’s not horrible, I’m going to share it […]

Scrap Wood Crows – Rockwell Bladerunner

I was looking for ideas to use up some scrap wood the other day – I know, you’re thinking “does she ever do any projects that actually create scrap wood?!”  – and yes, one big project, like a sofa table or a privacy planter box creates a fair amount of scrap wood in one project. […]

Fall Cards – clean and simple

Fall cards

If you’ve been following me over the past week, you will have seen a new calendar app that I LOVE (Cozi Family calendar), my clean and organized craft room and even a taste of paper crafting with my bookmark magnets. Well, those posts lead very quickly to today’s… My Cozi told me that I have […]