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How-To Make French Enameled Numbered Tags

July 24, 2010

I can’t take credit for this very clever way to make your own French enameled tags. Rachel at One Pretty Thing found this project and shared it on her site. I read the post and loved, loved, loved the tags and couldn’t wait to make them to label my kitchen baskets. Gail, at Can’t Stop Making Things came up with this project. She used brass [...]

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Trash into Gift Giving Treasure

July 19, 2010

I am collector of throw-away” stuff”. Not junk, but honest to goodness – discards. My friends and family know to give me their throw-aways, which are different than cast-offs. Cast-offs are unwanted items like furniture and lamps. Throw-aways are bits and pieces of packaging, parts of items – stuff that seems useless once it’s original purpose is complete. Throw-aways [...]

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In Artful Order

June 25, 2010

I am a visual girl…I like to see things, pretty things, tactile things, organized things. I love office, stationery, and art supplies. I am not a tech-ie and don’t want to have everything including the kitchen sink in my computer files. I like connection, hands-on to all my contacts, links, codes, passwords, urls, user names, [...]

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Jewelry for your Garden

June 14, 2010

This is a fun trash turned into treasure something useful project. I call my creation “Jewelry for the Garden”. I came up with this idea after my hubby asked me if I could make something to mark the veggies and herbs that he recently planted in our garden. I could have used a number of things as [...]

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How-To make a Fashionable Tassel

April 22, 2010

When I was a little girl, Barbie - who would be a vintage Barbie today was my favorite toy. My twin sister, Carol and I usually played with her with our neighborhood girlfriends. Off we would go many a morning to their house with our packed Barbie cases in hand, not returning until our mom called us home for dinner. [...]

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Happy Colors

March 24, 2010

So far, Spring has brought me 2 days of warm sunshine, one dreary rainy day, and today is colder, but the sun peaked out a bit this morning. On days like this I need a little color therapy to make me feel revitalized. It is a scientific fact that surrounding yourself with your favorite colors can [...]

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Don’t Cha Just Love The Dollar Store?

February 9, 2010

Before I just love the Dollar Store. Don’t you? You never know what you are going to find. It is a hit or miss, but when you do come across something nice or that has great potential – all you can say is Wow! It’s only a $1.00 and you instantly think you should buy more [...]

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Trash to Holiday Treasure

December 6, 2009

I have a sideboard in my foyer that usually is the home of a big white urn filled with purple hydrangeas, but at the holidays I like to change it to something a bit more in tune with a winter theme. This project really got me excited as it was easy, inexpensive, and the two [...]

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Jeweled Paper Clips

November 21, 2009

“Style – It’s in the Details” Everyone and everything can benefit from even a little bit of style. Take the plain, simple, boring, yet highly functional paper clip. They can take on a style all their own by the simple addition of some small beads. This little tweak not only makes the paper clip chic, but transforms the [...]

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