Holiday category

  • Iron Craft Challenge #31 – Snowflake Gift Ornaments

    This week for Iron Craft we were asked to sculpt something. I have taken pottery and clay classes and know there isn’t a sculptor in me, but I remember having fun making salt dough ornaments as ...
    Aug 03, 2011 21 Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge #27 – Stars and Stripes Bunting

    This week on Iron Craft we were asked to make something using stars or stripes in honor of the Fourth of July. It did not literally have to be something for the Fourth but, since I was hosting the hol...
    Jul 06, 2011 1 Comment

  • Stars and Stripes Table Runner

    While buying my fabric for this week’s Iron Craft challenge, I was offered an extra yard of canvas red ticking at 50% off. How could I resist? Usually, when I get extra fabric like this it just ...
    Jun 30, 2011 7 Comments

  • Valentines

    And here we have a heart garland. (What? Another garland? For heaven sake woman.) What can I tell you. I love a garland. I love that you can put it up, and then take it down, and enjoy it next yea...
    Feb 03, 2011 No Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge #5 – Simple Pop-Up Valentine

    This week for Iron Craft I challenged everyone to make a Valentine. I think a handmade Valentine means so much more than one from the store. Most years I make Matt a handmade card (or in last yearR...
    Feb 02, 2011 5 Comments

  • Work Room: Valentines

    Hearts, hearts, everywhere. The house is filled with hearts. We have a ‘meditation ball’ heart that has a very satisfying bell that clangs in it. I made some heart ornaments at Christmas...
    Jan 28, 2011 No Comments

  • #342 – A few requested gnomes

    I didn’t have time to make gnome ornaments for my Etsy store this year but if the samples I made today impress you may all be able to get the pattern to make then yourselves next year… Han...
    Dec 08, 2010 No Comments

  • #259 – Christmas Tree Progress

    I’ve knit up both sides of the christmas tree & did the embroidery on the white side. I was able to get bags of 130 white & red buttons at Joann’s for $3 which was perfect. I als...
    Sep 16, 2010 2 Comments

  • #257 – Christmas Tree Project

    The souvenir that Matt & I look for on all our trips is a Christmas ornament so, we found ourselves in a Christmas shop in Bruges, Belgium. In the basement of the shop I found a little display of...
    Sep 14, 2010 2 Comments

  • #75 – They’re multiplying like…well you know

    Finished all the sock bunnies I need to help the Easter Bunny fill a few baskets this year. There is one I may redo the face on but otherwise I think they have lots of personality. You’re probab...
    Mar 16, 2010 4 Comments