Decking the Halls with Orange Pomanders
Orange Pomanders are a simple, classic and beautiful way to usher the holidays into your home. And your kitchen. It’s been a long-standing tradition in...
Category: DIY
We have DIY projects and craft ideas to help inspire your own unique creativity. Whether it’s paper crafts, knitting or crocheting, kid’s crafts or garden benches, we can get your creative juices flowing with a variety of ideas and tips.
A Summer Patriotic Porch
The Front Porch Swing Sitting in the front porch swing, With a cool wind in your face, Can cause one to dream. Of another time...
How to Print Your Own Recipe Cards at Home
Having my own recipe cards is a planning and preserving organizational essential for me. I go through what seems like hundreds of recipe cards over...
A Vintage DIY Papercraft: Victorian Valentine’s Day Cards
The Victorian era somehow personifies romance and beauty… and Valentine’s Day. These ever-so-sweet cards of sentiment are time capsules of a kinder, gentler and...
Smart Storage Solutions: Perfect for Upcycling Secondhand Finds
By upcycling furniture, you can transform found or salvage pieces into harder working implements of storage. And create a win-win situation. Or “beauty from ashes.”...
Christmas Dried Orange Slices
A favorite Christmas activity, sometime in early December, preferably on a wintry, snowy (in my dreams) kind of day, I love to make dried orange...
Easy Homemade Advent Calendars to DIY
Advent, a word derived from Latin and translated as “coming,” is the celebration of the 4 Sundays leading up to Christmas. Historians believe a form...
Easy Handmade Christmas Gifts to DIY
Every year I try to make a few handmade gifts for friends and family members. Handmade Christmas gifts are so personal and cherished that it’s...
Easy Christmas Gift Tags to DIY
Create meaningful gifts this holiday season with Easy Christmas Tags to DIY. It is more blessed to give than to receive, especially at Christmas....
Decking the Hall With a Little Easy DIY Christmas Ideas
If you love to add a personal and custom touch to your holidays but are short on time, we’ve gathered some gorgeous but incredibly easy projects...
Creating Treasures: Easy Handmade Christmas Cards
Always enamored with paper crafts, most especially Christmas paper crafts, I have fallen in love with paper sewing, a concept, I must admit, I’m new...
Reframing the Sharing of a Family Story
Family memoirs are treasured accounts of ancestral heritage. Stories of our past enrich our lives today, allowing a glimpse into what has made us...