DIY

Thrift Store Table Makeover

May 10, 2012

Remember the cute little brown table I found at the thrift store? I finally finished transforming it. Before My $5.90 thrift store find. After I removed the wheels and added ball accents to the top corners. The wheels made it too tall next to the chair I placed it by. I saved them, if [...]

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How To Make Inexpensive Artwork

May 31, 2010

My daughter is moving into her own apartment tomorrow and I made this modern looking canvas for her to hang in her room. I call it a Tissue Paper Picasso. I hung it on a wall in my family room just so I could get a photo of it in it’s finished state, before it goes to [...]

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Easy Embellished Envelopes

May 21, 2010

It is the time of year when many of us will be giving the gift of money to graduates and newlyweds. Good manners require you to follow protocol – you put a check into a card, seal the envelope, and hand it to the recipient. Creative manners allows you to follow your spirit. When you express [...]

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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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The Gift of A Letter

February 4, 2010

When you go to your mailbox, not your in-box, the mailbox outside your house or apartment, do you open the handwritten or personal envelopes first because you can’t wait to see who has written and why? Or do you hold those letters aside to enjoy after you are done sorting your bills and recycling the junk mail? [...]

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How To Make Wipe-Off Labels for Organizing Your Stuff

January 13, 2010

When paging through the Ballard Designs catalog a few years ago I came across little enameled re-writable name plaques. They were white and outlined in black. They were Oh, so French, and Oh, so expensive! I thought of so many uses for them, but knew I couldn’t afford them. Not wanting to feel deprived of adding [...]

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How-to make a Lid for a Basket

January 11, 2010

How to make a lid so you can stack baskets

I like many of you - am in super organizing mode. The New Year always deserves a fresh start and I am going through every room of my house purging all the clutter and organizing the rest. One way I try to tame what is left is to place the stuff into decorative baskets. I use them in my pantry, [...]

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Simple Place Card Holders

December 1, 2009

When I was a little girl I always thought the word “Hospitality” meant something about going to the hospital. It sounded scary. My thoughts were re-enforced by the fact that every time my parents entertained, my mom got very uptight and sick with worry. Now that I am older, I laugh at that childhood notion, [...]

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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 [...]