Careful What You Ask For… For years I’ve been admiring and drooling over furniture, especially dressers, that had been upcylcled from what appeared to be a Salvation Army reject to a truly amazing home decor accent. I really wanted to try my hand at that but to my continued frustration I could never seem to… Continue reading The Dresser Project – Part 1
This is what has taken up most of my time last week – Apothecary Style Bookends. What I like most about these is they are multi-purpose. Not only do they keep a row of books nice and tidy, those are drawers, twelve of them, and they can hold quite a bit of stuff like office… Continue reading What Have I Been Working On? – Part 2
I recently found a packet of blank note cards with envelopes at my favorite “second hand store”. I love shopping in these places, you never know what you’re going to find and the real challenge is what can you make with everyday objects? I’ve already done a step by step blog on upcycling greeting cards… Continue reading What Have I Been Working On? – Part 1
From Paper Scraps to Pure Magic At heart I guess I’m a paper crafter as somewhere in almost every project I do there’s paper involved. And like most paper crafters, I have a large bag full of scraps. This paper mosaic technique can make full use of those scraps. I started this project a couple… Continue reading Mosaic Miracle – Part 2
From Cute to Beautiful, Paper Mosaic – Part 1 This is a piece of doll furniture from Pottery Barn. It was designed for the American Girl doll line so it’s pretty big at 13″ x 12″ x 5″. A neighbor girl decided she needed to clean out her toy stash, and with her having never… Continue reading Mosaic Miracle
Me vs Technology For all the folks who may have looked at my previous blogs and instead of seeing photos of my projects in various stages of development but instead saw IMG001, IMG052 ad nauseam – I humbly apologize. I didn’t know that if you delete your photos from your “Media Library” that they morph… Continue reading Apologies
This is it! After hours of hard work I’m into my favorite stage of crafting on a project. But I must admit, it’s also a little sad for me. I like the big projects, one’s that take a lot of time and effort and though somewhere around the two-thirds mark I’m usually having a doubt… Continue reading Steampunk Pumpkin – Part 5
Somebody Smack Me… if I ever decide to do an EXTRA LARGE PUMPKIN AGAIN (well, as a project for a blog post, anyways). But alright, I’ve got all his new “skin” on and it turned out just as totally awesome as I thought it would. Right now though, I’m going to back things up a… Continue reading Steampunk Pumpkin – Part 4
So Close ! The front half is almost done, but close enough where we can all get a good idea of just how cool this guy is going to look when he’s finished. Look at all those rivets! This is how the base is shaping up. Just keep adding pieces down around the base… Continue reading Steampunk Pumpkin – Part 3
Old Raven Creates 