Category: Craft Projects

Button Flowers

Button Flowers

One of my favorite handmade gifts to make for people are these button flowers, generally made from vintage buttons. I ran across something similar in a boutique in Kansas City about 5 years ago when I was on a girls weekend. I thought “I can make those!” When I was on maternity leave that fall

Tag Blanket Tutorial

When my son was born, my sister-in-law made him a super soft tag blanket with ribbons that was definitely one of his favorite things as a baby. I haven’t had a chance to make one for someone else until now. My son’s daycare teacher is currently expecting her first baby, and I was trying to

How to Frame T-Shirts

How to Frame T-Shirts

I’m still working on some projects for my husband’s 40th birthday party. He has a lot of old t-shirts from college and concerts that have been sitting in a box in our basement for several years. I can see why he doesn’t want to part with them, but I know he’s never going to wear

DIY Rock Photo Holder – 40 Rocks!

We’re in the final preparations for my husband’s 40th birthday party at the end of this month and of course that means we’re digging out old photo albums. I have a few projects I’ll share here in the coming weeks for how we’ll display my husband’s trip down memory lane. Today, I’m sharing the rock

Doll Sleeping Bag

  Finished doll sleeping bags. Quilted tops and attached pillow I’m getting ready to embark on a few new sewing projects and realized I haven’t pulled out my sewing machine in over a year when I made doll sleeping bags for my nieces who were both getting new American Girl Dolls for Christmas. Up until

Duct Tape Flower Ring

Duct Tape Flower Ring

I like to give craft gifts to my nieces, at least as part of their gifts for birthdays and other holidays. My oldest niece is 9 and this year for Christmas I decided on some duct tape projects. I knew she had made some other duct tape crafts and she and her brother and sister