Tag: craft tutorial
Crafts for Organizers – Fabric Covered Recipe Binder
Editor’s Note: This great project to get you all organized for your holiday baking and making first appeared on Our Big Earth in September 2009. As we start thinking about the holidays this year, the first thing I think about is where are all of my recipes. Instead of digging through drawers for hours on [...]
Paper Craft – Vintage Spool Albums
Editor’s Note: Vanessa Falle is back this afternoon with one of her gorgeous vintage crafts that is all about taking your photography and scrapbooking to the next level. It’s a gorgeous project, perfect for gifting or preserving precious moments. Enjoy. I am a lover of all things vintage. Especially things that relate to real life. [...]
Kids Crafts – Octopus Puppets
Editor’s Note: If you missed out on the morning post giving you the scoop on when and where you can ditch your stash of household hazardous waste, you can read it HERE. Now, here’s Robin with a fun kiddo craft tutorial. Here she is: Ever have those weeks (or months) when your creative powers are [...]
Paper Crafts – Creating A Decorative Pennant Banner
Editor’s Note: Good morning. Vanessa Falle is on sight with an easy paper craft tutorial. Today she has us whipping up a lovely decorative pennant banner for any occasion. Get creative. Here she is: This month’s project is a decorative project that you can make over and over again. It can be created to suit [...]
Paper Crafts – Welcoming Spring With A Wreath
Editor’s Note: Crafting queen Vanessa Falle is back on site with a tutorial for a lovely spring themed wreath. Enjoy. Here she is: As winter’s chill leaves the air and the sun’s rays invite the blossoms to come back for another season, I find that few things inspire me more than the beauty found in [...]
Kid's Crafts – Easter Baskets of the Easy Kind
Good Morning. Just a week or so out from Easter and I am seriously getting the business from the four-year-old crowd right now about doing Easter crafts that “are actually fun.” Apparently my attempts at felted eggs and beautiful bunnies had far too many requirements to keep the 20-minute attention span in tact. I felt [...]
Easy Kids Crafts – Homemade Pompoms
Good Morning. I don’t know what it is, but I can go all year without a single pompom and then, when spring hits, I always seem to be in need of these fuzzy things for some creature making or other fun. Then, I head out to the store and leave gasping at how crazy expensive [...]
Greet Spring With A Paper Posie Bouquet
Editor’s Note: Good morning. Crafting goddess Vanessa Falle is here with a fabulous paper and button flower tutorial. Enjoy. Here she is: This time of year is so dreary and drab up in Canada’s frozen north. We’re still buried under a blanket of snow and it’s so disheartening to hear of the buds and blossoms [...]
Kids Crafts – Making Magic with Apothecary Boxes
Good Morning. Oh how we are having fun making cool new stuff for our magical world. After the fairy bowls, we definitely decided that the Land of Purple Unicorn Fairies (LOPUF), as it has now been deemed, definitely needs some storage with lids. This isn’t heavy-duty, big storage. But, more a need to have cool places [...]
Kids Crafts – Making Fun Fairy Bowls
As our “magical world” project continues this year, we are still super focused on the fairy forest part of that imaginary adventure. The tiny person is so excited about creating the bits and pieces that line the path to her castle and lead the way along the path into the fairy forest, that we found [...]
Craft – Chinese New Year + Valentines = Felt Fortune Cookies
I was completely stumped this year when we started going through the craft books and websites looking for Valentine’s Day crafts. The sense was that there are some cute ones out there, but neither of us really wanted a pile of paper hearts, or to spend the time peeling and grating crayons to make a [...]
Paper Crafts – Weekly Gratitude Book
Editor’s Note: Good morning. Crafting queen Vanessa Falle is on site with a lovely tutorial on creating a gratitude book. Awesome concept. Cool craft. Enjoy. Here’s Vanessa: The beginning of the New Year is so inspiring. It’s much like preparing for the first day of school and being surrounded by piles of school supplies and [...]
Crafts to Build Fine Motor Skills – Hand Sewing For Kids
They say knitting is the new yoga and sewing is the greatest happy pill out there. If a needle and thread can sooth the savage beast, fork a whole pile over to me and the 4-year-old. Both of us are searching for that quiet, peaceful truth these days! And, lately, it seems that those wives tales [...]
Family Voyage Project
When Meg Cursons first handed me the book Six String Nation, I nearly cried. Having claimed Canada as home well into my 30s, my sense of cultural identity had not settled in much of anything traditionally Canadian and I’d been feeling a like a bit of a loner in terms of discovering my sense of [...]
Found-Object Food Jar Terrariums
Science in a jar is something that scores me some serious cool points in the scientist in training universe. That’s especially true when it means that we can head out for a walk around our local park – or even the backyard – with express permission to pick up, handle, pack away and take home [...]
