After painting our adjoining living room/dining room and entryway two shades of muted blue-green, I went on a hunt for curtains. I wanted to introduce bold patterns and additional colors into the space, while playing up the wall color. I didn’t have much luck (apparently plain and boring is what people buy in curtains these …
You can do many, many things when you have immediate access to hundreds of (free) roses: […]
I’m excited to announce that the online Seakettle shop — future home to lovely products like this keyboard art — is in development! The date of “soon” is still TBD, but you can bet we’ll be ready for Christmas shopping in the fall! I’ll keep you posted.
Still looking for a festive 4th of July dessert? Maybe even one that doesn’t use red & blue berries […]
Terrariums — especially the adorable, miniature kind — have made a comeback over the […]
I hope you have an ice cream maker… Homemade ice cream is a great summer (spring, fall, winter) treat! It’s so easy to fancy up for festivities, too — wrap the cones with pretty paper, or use sprinkles and other toppings to coordinate colors. But, really, you don’t need to wait for a party. This …
Sew a fabric cover to update to a dirty, faded camera strap. It’s a quick project and a great use for a long scrap! 1. Wash, dry and iron fabric. 2. Measure your strap. Double the width and add 1″ (if your strap is 1.5″: 1.5×2=3 and 3+1=4). Add 2″ to the length. You now …
For Father’s Day, Greg and his brothers gave their #1 Dad a set of Dodgers tickets, neatly packaged in an adorable gift box (my contribution). The template (and bow-tie option!) is available for free at papercrave.com; you can print it right onto your shirt paper. It only requires a tiny bit of accent paper for …
Greg and I spent last Thanksgiving in the desert — Yuma, Arizona, to be exact. As with any gathering of my husband’s family, a few things could be counted on in abundance: food, games and hiking. We were on our second (dry, dusty, help-my-contacts-are-stuck-to-my-eyeballs!) hike of the weekend when we headed to an amazing (um, …
Let’s wrap up the wedding talk for a bit and move on to the other fun projects that have been piling up! For starters, here’s a quick idea for decorating a cake: lightly set a cookie cutter atop the cake and sprinkle its center with sprinkles! (Or nuts, or coconut…) Pull the cookie cutter straight …