I spied these pretty toothbrushes and I immediately thought they would be perfect tucked into my grandkids' Easter baskets. My grandkids presently number three, but the other two toothbrushes are in anticipation of number 4 due to arrive in June and number 5 in July. The perfectly gorgeous lunch tray is from a yard sale.…

 Yesterday morning as I was opening my pantry to get some steel cut oats, dates, pecans, and rice milk to cook a bowl of cereal for Dick and I, my eyes were drawn to my baking center where the KitchenAid Mixer stands. I decided the mixer needed a cover worthy of its important role in…

I was going to run to the store and buy some dishtowels to embroider, but the aroma of honey whole wheat oatmeal bread baking in my bread machine… well, I just knew I must delay my errand so that I wouldn’t miss the best part of the entire bread making process. I posted the recipe…

Let your imagination run wild… I did! Go crazy with color and patterns or follow a more traditional realistic color scheme. So many visions I did have as this cardboard house and scrapbook paper forest began to transform into a magical land. The cardboard house directions can be found on the Better Homes and Gardens…

How much more fun is it to collect old buttons on the ‘button shore’ than seashells on the seashore?! A use for some of my button collection… The owls are so fun to make and they each have a unique personality depending upon what fabric and buttons you choose. So fun and easy! After clicking…

Finally a use for Kool-Aid drink mix! I would never have thought to dye yarn with it until my youngest daughter, Jessica, sent me a link for the instructions. I was having trouble finding yarn colors that I liked to make flowers using a "bloom loom". As Jessica said, "You can get just the colors…

I recently discovered a fun web site named Wondertime. The flower t-shirt craft idea on my previous post, "dandelion poof", came from the site as does this clock. Don’t ya love the retro colors? Quoting from the description, it was "developed by two mothers — children’s book author Lynne Bertrand and illustrator Janet Street —…

  To eliminate the use of plastic and paper bags, I use canvas bags for grocery shopping and my weekly trip to the  farmers market in the summertime. My plain jane cream-colored bags were begging for a hip new look so with a few markers, rubbing alcohol, a glass, a rubber band and an eyedropper……

I have been immersed in a new passion for anything and everything made with felted wool. These booties, that are so easy to either hand or machine-stitch, are especially fun to make because you can vary the look dramatically depending upon how you choose to embellish them. Let your creative spirit run unbridled. For the…

                                                       One of my daughters taught me enough to make a knitted dishcloth except for how to cast off, so my project has come to a standstill. At Jo-Ann Fabrics, I found these stocking knitting needle point…