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Planning Ahead for the Holidays (Making a Winter Pinwheel)
You may say that I am “jumping the gun”. But the thing that makes the holidays so stressful, is that it all comes at once! Plus, having a retail shop…
Read MoreCreating a Personalized Wedding Card
This afternoon, a dear young couple we’e known for a while, are getting married! Heather and Joaquin! Woot! Woot! Having asked the appropriate probing questions, it sounded like money would…
Read MoreGetting My 4th On! (No & Low Cost Party Decorations!)
Hello sweet friends!, As I mentioned last week, I wanted to turn our old barn red picnic table into a color that resembled drift wood. At the Haven conference, I…
Read MoreParty Like It’s the 4th of July!
Hello dear friend, Before you take another sip of coffee, I hope you’ll head right on over to Conspicuous Style, where Stacy has graciously allowed me to give her “the…
Read MoreMaking Pillows with Vintage Fabric
Hello there! What a day! I was so excited about yesterday’s monogrammed pillow creation, that I got to thinking about all the different fabric options that I could use to…
Read MoreMonogrammed Pillow Tutorial
Oh my gosh! Wait ’til you see this! Last week, when I was going to mass produce beautiful custom painted tea towels, that turned into a craft-disaster, the project went…
Read MoreLet the Party Preparations Begin!
Hello, hello!, I just asked my friend, Stacy, at Conspicuous Style, if I could guest post on her beautiful blog. I suggested that I could write about decorating for a…
Read MoreThis and That
Hello there, You know, I just love to laugh at myself! And I’ve had a few chances to do that this week. And it’s only Wednesday afternoon! Case in point…this…
Read MoreSharing Crafts With a Friend
Good day! Friday afternoon, I met with the Paper Craft Fairy, aka my dear friend, Debbie, to try out pinwheel making, following the excellent tutorial found at The Lovely Cupboard.…
Read MoreDressing Up a Plain Pillow, Jacket, Scarf…
Hello my dear, In between customers today, at Veranda, I made these crazy fabric flowers. I made a prototype out of some scrap material and think they’d look especially cute…
Read MoreNote to My Dog + New & Improved Dog Bed
Dear Wonder Dog, It’s me, your mom. Remember me? Do you really have to chew up the beautiful bed covers I sew for you? Was it the Velcro closure that…
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