crafting: valentine's cards

Sew cute...

Click here for close-up photos and a handy step-by-step to make your own homemade cards at The Purl Bee, one of my favorite places to go for crafting inspiration.

crafting: homemade muffins/gift boxes

Remember when I posted about this craft project here?

Well, look what I made last weekend!


The second of my four (!!!) baby showers was Saturday, and as a little thank you to my dear friends who hosted, I made some homemade blueberry and strawberry muffins and put them in these circle and square boxes decorated with fabric flowers.

I think they turned out quite lovely. ;)

crafting: decorating with patterns

This looks like a fun and easy craft project...

Simply stiffen a few favorite fabric pieces with fabric hardener (available at craft shops) and punch out flowers or petals using the handy little punches (available from Paper Source, for one). Lay out your design on boxes, notebooks, lampshades, frames -- anything your heart desires -- and apply with a glue stick.

Lovely!

(From Martha Stewart mag.

Sorry... I don't know what issue it came from!)

crafting: plant markers

I love this idea for marking plants in a more natural way than just sticking the little plastic tags that came from the garden center into the dirt. It's simple enough to do... just find a few smooth, flat stones and label each one using alphabet stamps. So pretty!

(from the pages of Martha Stewart mag)