My Crocheted Home: Hand-made baskets, pillows, throws, wall hangings, placemats, and more

My Crocheted Home: Hand-made baskets, pillows, throws, wall hangings, placemats, and more

Personalize your home with handmade crochet! Crocheting items for the home provides a wonderful opportunity to display and enjoy your handmade items every day. Adorn your dining room with a beautiful wall hanging, plants in textured cozies, and the Elm Placemats and Runner. Snuggle into the cozy Arrowwood Throw with your head on a crocheted [...]

DIY : Seed Stater Greenhouses

DIY : Seed Stater Greenhouses

This Saturday, and it's all about fun and easy ways to start seed indoors. Just when we thought it was warm to plant a cold spellhits. But ready to do some planting... After Dyeing Eggs : Recycle the cartoons fill the egg carton with seed starting soil. Seed starting soil is an extra light soil [...]

Creative Home

Creative Home

Today I am sharing my latest Napkin Decopodge project Floral Notebooks Gather supplies Mod podge( fabric) White paint Napkins and fabric Tape, brush, sneakers Gather supplies and cover the covers with white paint. Let dry.  Then, separate the napkin layers and size up the printed layer.  Coat a layer of mod podge and small out [...]

March : Supper Club

March : Supper Club

Today iam helping a friend plan next Sundays Supper Club. The theme will be St Patrick day . So join me at Mary Ann house for the fun... Lisa Decorations: It's paper time. We made these large shamrock from strips of paper turned into Shamrock.  Hanging from the ceiling.  Simple candle scape. The candle holder [...]

Garden View : Birdhouse

Garden View : Birdhouse

Welcome to my Creative Home.   Birds are back as the temperatures rise. Signs of Spring is here. And in February it is bird month. . I have a small collection of ones handmade and ones I bought, Birdhouses: What makes a good birdhouse' needs are straightforward: food, water and shelter. Bird feeders and birdbaths help [...]

LUNDI GRAS : RED BEANS AND RICE Parade

LUNDI GRAS : RED BEANS AND RICE Parade

Carnival is always such a busy and exciting time of year, and in the days leading up to Fat Tuesday, there is no shortage of things to do. The Monday immediately before Mardi Gras Day, also called Lundi Gras, “Fat Monday,” or “Shrove Monday” holds its own traditions and celebrations. Lundi Gras this year falls on [...]

Valentines : recycled crafts

Valentines : recycled crafts

Next week is a busy week with lots of holidays in a row. Today's project: candy tin And this simple can makeover with napkin and Decopodge.  And handmade roses. An old cookie tin I painted with white chalk paint. Then, after drying I separated my napkins layers and used the printed side on my tin. [...]

Courir de Mardi Gras : DIY Costume

Courir de Mardi Gras : DIY Costume

Just like gumbo in Louisiana can differ region to region, Mardi Gras does too! The flamboyant parties in the French Quarter, the regal balls in Lake Charles, the family-friendly parades in Shreveport and then there is the Courir de Mardi Gras in central Louisiana.    This one-of-a-kind Mardi Gras celebration is older than the state itself. Even among born-and-bred Louisianians, [...]

Creative Home

Creative Home

Let's create something today . I am re-using old cans to make storage organizer for my Craft table. Napkin Decopodge It all starts with a clean vegetable can. Painted white with DG chalk paint. Then, after drying cover with modge podge. Then place napkin over modge podge. Smooth out and let dry. Trim. Tip : [...]