Late this afternoon, I returned 15 library books that I had checked out for my grandkids for their visit from New Jersey two weeks ago. It seemed a waste of a trip to town just for this one errand, so I pulled into an open parking spot directly across the street from a shop called…

When my October 2009 Martha Stewart Living Magazine arrived in the mail recently, I immediately knew that my next trip to the local farmers market would include a hunt for varying sizes and colors of squash to create toadstools pictured on the magazine's cover. Then today's craft segment on Martha Stewart's T.V. show featured the toadstools, so it was the…

  It is my youngest daughter Jessie's 29th birthday today. She loves to craft as much as I do, so I couldn't wait to give her this card. She even has a mannequin in her craft room, which increased the perfectness quotient.    Here's the inside of the card… Oh, yeah. It's so fun to stumble upon the…

    There is nothing quite like opening your mailbox to discover a handwritten letter from someone. Before even tearing open the envelope, it's the stamp that sends a message. So when my trip to the post office today produced these "king and queen of hearts" stamps, I got excited. Stamps that excite me are too few and…

   When my seven year-old granddaughter Madigan came to visit, we worked together sewing a doll's dress for her younger sister O'Malley. Madigan decided mychick pincushion could use some "feathers".

    Do you have a box of vintage trims that you've snagged at yard sales, thrift shops, estate sales, and dig-thru-the-heap bins at antique shops? They're cute and nostalgic, but what do you do with them? Opening the package's cellophane wrapping to use its contents would be counter-productive since it would diminish/destroy the vintageness. Doe-c-doe or click on over to…

    With some quick prep consisting of printing cleverly illustrated popcorn boxes and movie tickets onto cardstock and popping some popcorn to fill the boxes, you have a fun family movie night for your kids or grandkids to remember long after. Family Fun has done the work for you by creating the colorful printables. April 18,…

  I have embarked on a journey back to the era of preplastic. For several years, I have stored leftovers in emptied jars with lids that once held things like pickles, peanut butter, applesauce, and olives. I bring fabric bags to the grocery store to carry my purchases home in. I bring my own jars to the local food co-op…

   This range is made from a cardboard storage box. Condiment cups and lids are spray-painted silver for knobs that realistically turn. An oven window made from a plastic sheet protector allows different pictures of baking food to be interchanged freely. The oven door opens with two racks inside made from sheets of cardboard spray-painted silver then drawn with grids. The…