Hi there! It’s your friendly neighborhood Masked Mommy again :-). My kids are huge Veggie Tales fans, and I had this idea for making them Bob the Tomato toys. It’s very simple to do because he’s made out of a tomato pin cushion which means… no sewing! ;-) Paired with a Veggie Tales Video, I think this makes an adorable gift! [Click here for full …

To me, stockings are one of the very best parts of Christmas giving.  I love finding (or better yet, making!) cute little things to stuff stockings with — and I love finding cute little things in my own stocking!
I’ve been hoarding a dollar store dishtowel with the most adorable arctic animals on it for a couple weeks now.  I finally found the perfect way to showcase those …

Voting is now closed.
Well, this being my first non-random contest, it took me a little while to figure out the details of how we’d choose a winner. I didn’t want to choose the winner all by myself because I know some of you personally, and it just doesn’t seem fair that way. My hopes of putting together a panel of judges didn’t quite work …

I know you’re knee-deep in breakneck crafting (or planning, or shopping) at this point in the month, but here’s a quick little project just for a bit of fun. These will only take you about 10 seconds to make, and about ten minutes to wrap; they’re fun for kids and adults alike. They were so addictive, I made about ten or so in an evening. …

So I had this idea a few months ago to create a terrarium in a glass ornament bulb and give it for holiday gifts. Well, being an ideas person, I have ten-hundred ideas at any given time, and usually only half the supplies I need to make them happen, and one-third the time I need to get them done. As I was researching terrariums, I …

Mrs. Green Tea at Wedding Bee came up with a fun way to repurpose leftover wedding invitations into a great first-year holiday ornament. She trimmed her leftover ornaments into strips of varying widths and then rolled them really tightly into scrolls. Love this idea for more than just weddings. It would be fun for a “Baby’s First” ornament (use birth announcements), or maybe a graduation …

Check out this make it yourself nativity craft for kids over on Catholic Icing. It’s printable. You just color, cut, and then glue each person around a tissue paper tube. The figures stand up on their own, and the set includes 16 pieces including the stable! [Get the full directions here].
Supplies Needed:

Printed Nativity Set (free)
13 Toilet Paper Tubes (free)
Glue (on hand)
Crayons (on hand)
Scissors (on hand)

Project …

Reader Theo-Ann from Outside the Box sent me this great idea for making recycled Christmas card houses (inspired by an idea by Danny Seo) – so cute, right? I really can’t think of a better way to display/repurpose Christmas cards. This is THE idea you’ve been looking for! [tutorial for creating a greeting card village]
Project Estimate:

3 greeting cards per house, on hand
Battery-operated tea lights, 2 …

Reader Amy of Gabriel’s Good Tidings makes these cool gift card wreaths out of zero-balance cards. She collected a bunch of used Starbucks cards and made a colorful and festive wreath (that her local Starbucks is now displaying!) There are all kinds of other cards in your life you could use for this project: Metro Cards, or business cards could make a cool office display. …

Yay, one of my favorite bloggers (and DSC readers), Rowena from rostitchery and romesticity has created an amazing tree skirt from dollar store table runners. Table runners are a great dollar store raw material. Lots of crafting potential (I even have a project in mind, but I haven’t made it yet… maybe I will channel the inspiration provided by this project into creating it)! This …