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Cupcake Wrapper Flowers - Kids Craft Idea

A quick and easy, last minute mother’s day gift ideas for kids would be to raid mom’s baking supplies, find some colorful cupcake wrappers and make a pretty bouquet using chenille sticks. What you will need For each cupcake liner flower, you will need: 2 cupcake wrappers in different sizes and colors/prints 1 Chenille stick How [...]

Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin Carving Pattern

Pumpkins in a pumpkin! Carve a pretty pumpkin patch around a fence on a full moon Halloween night with our easy pumpkin carving pattern. A beautiful pumpkin patch full of smiling (almost) pumpkins on a full moon Halloween night with a couple of bats flying above. A beautifully detailed pumpkin carving pattern for creative enthusiasts. [...]

Audrey Hepburn Pumpkin Carving Pattern

Make a Style Statement this Halloween! Audrey Hepburn fans can go really creative and carve the most stylish woman that ever was, on their Halloween pumpkins this year! Print our free pumpkin carving pattern and then carve out the gray shaded parts to get the most beautiful pumpkin with the fashionable Audrey Hepburn welcoming your [...]

Masked Pumpkin – Halloween Pumpkin Carving Pattern

Carve the coolest pumpkin on the block this year! Give your pumpkin a super-hero mask by carving this spooktacular design on to your pumpkin. This is how your ‘masked’ pumpkin will look like when carved and lit. Click on the image to view full size pattern. Right-click and choose Save-as to save the pattern on [...]

Halloween Cat Face Pumpkin Carving Stencil

The Cat is one of the significant symbols of Halloween. Instead of the regular scaredy cat designs, try carving a glowing cat face on your Halloween pumpkin this year. This is how your pumpkin will look like when carved and lit. Click on the image to view full size pattern. Right-click and choose Save-as to [...]

‘Skull on Flames’ Halloween Pumpkin Carving Pattern

Looking for a scary, devilish pumpkin carving pattern for Halloween? Give your average ‘Skull and Cross Bones’ a twist. This devil’s skull is all ablaze making it even more wicked that it already was. Download the free stencil, print it out and carve a pumpkin for all visitors and passers-by to remember! This is how [...]

How to Recycle an Old Sweater into (at least) 5 New Garments!

Guest post by Julie Anne Eason of SeriousSewing.com One $5 thrift store find gets a makeover from stretched out sweater to a cowl (neckwarmer), a pair of arm or leg warmers, 2 warm headbands, a pair of wrist warmers and a wrap-around skirt. Sometimes things just wear out their welcome. This is especially true of [...]

Ephemera: A Glimpse of the Past

One’s trash may be another’s treasure. How is it possible that the bus tickets, promo stubs and even paper bags that we so readily throw into the bin become so valuable a couple of years on? But hold on — they are. The simple pieces of junk that litter the homes of people from the [...]

The Pleasures of Collecting Vintage Buttons

Have you ever considered taking up vintage button collecting? No, this does not mean the sort wherein you keep stray buttons in a cookie jar. Vintage button collecting means actually looking for buttons that were and have been used in various eras and then learning the stories, traditions and even anecdotes behind them. Buttons have [...]

Crafting with Vintage and Heirloom Fabric

Vintage and heirloom fabrics provide a nostalgic sense of warmth that is not easily reproducible by modern fabrics. Crafters of all kinds can make wonderful use of old bolts of fabric, old clothes, tablecloths, draperies, etc…by remaking them into gifts or new household treasures that are definite one-of-a-kinds. Here are tips on where to find [...]