I love birds, both as animals and as decoration.  They make for such a timeless look!  If you want to add some birds to your decor for spring but your tchotchke budget is nil, check out this nifty (and free!) idea from Carolyn of Carolyn’s Homework.  Designed in her signature simple-and-elegant style, she used decoupage over a paper-and-tape form to make them.  With paper available …

If you’re a follower of Amanda and her adventures over at Crafts by Amanda, then you know that she’s a whiz when it comes to cardboard tube projects.  She’s made all kinds of cute things out of them, most recently an entire series of farm animals!  There are nine animals in the set:   pig, chicken, chick, lamb, goat, horse, cow, dog, and cat.  Turn a …

May Day (May 1st) is celebrated in many places around the world. The traditions and stories surrounding May Day vary from place to place. There is, however, one thing that is similar in most celebrations – the use of Flowers!

One of the most popularly known May Day traditions is to hang a basket full of spring flowers and/or other small gifts on a neighbor’s doorknob. The trick is you don’t want the neighbor to see you! If you get caught, you are supposed to get a kiss.

Teacher Appreciation week is coming up (the first week of May). Have you decided what you are going to do for your child’s teachers? If not, here are some great ideas. And don’t forget to do a little something — teachers are so important and don’t get nearly the affirmation (and salaries!) they deserve.

Living in the Pacific Northwest, Carissa from Carissa’s Creativity Space faces one certainty in the spring:  moss.  In the process of preparing her flowerbeds for the season, she removed a whole bunch of it from  flower box.  Now wanting to just toss it aside and keen on the popularity of decor balls, she started looking for a tutorial showing how to make them using moss. …

When I was a child I really didn’t understand the concept of things like decorative toiletries.  I had a friend whose mother had beautiful, tiny towels in the bathrooms that we weren’t allowed to use to dry our hands, and as somewhat of a tomboy, I found the idea to be completely silly.  As an adult, I can finally understand what years ago seemed so …

If you are one of those families who bought a crate of PEEPs and still has some leftover after Easter (What;  you didn’t eat them all?!), here are some great ideas to make them fun and use up your leftover PEEPs creatively!
Crafts, decorating ideas, recipes and printables can help you stashbust those PEEPs!

Every once in a while, you’re bound to have someone offer you some sort of oddball item in mass quantity.    You’ll be tempted to accept them, but you’ll have no idea what you can possibly do with them.  What should you do?  Well, you can always do what reader Robin did via our Facebook fan page and ask DSC!
Robin’s mother-in-law made her a very tempting …

As you may remember, I made some cupcakes for the Iron Craft week 15 challenge “Bunny or Chick?” I shared the printables with you, so I decided I should share the recipe and tutorial too!
Here’s the cupcake breakdown: Vanilla bean cupcake, Creme brulee cream filling, Vanilla bean buttercream frosting and Roasted PEEPs marshmallow fondant. It seems like a lot of work, but you can just …

If you aren’t familiar with Keurig coffee makers, they are a single-cup style of brewer that uses small cups of ground coffee with built-in filters for the brewing process.  They’re a great solution for people who only want to brew a cup at a time, and while some models are compatible with a refillable filter cup, they are commonly used with disposable, single-use cups.
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