Display Your Child’s Creations with Inexpensive DIY Clip Art Rails

April 2, 2012
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Last week I showed you some pictures of our current crafting area. This kitchen nook is home to supplies and my children’s creations. Most of their artwork consist of paper, paper and more paper. They love to draw and colour pictures. Lots of pictures. The piles keeps growing on the desk until I can’t take [...]

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Fun with DIY Freezer Paper Stencils and Craft Paint

February 23, 2012

Warning. You may become obsessed with personalizing everything after trying this fun stenciling technique. This no sew version of monogramming was my quick go to solution for handmade presents during the holiday season. My tutorial requires the use of a Cricut machine but you really don’t need it to make your own freezer paper stencils. [...]

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Personalized Faux Sherpa Blankets

December 10, 2011

Remember my crazy sew six quilts in time for Christmas idea? Must be about 13 weeks ago when I wrote that post. It was ambitious of me to even consider taking on such a time consuming project. Needless to say, I got as far as completing two quilt tops when I lost interest in quilting [...]

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Makeover a Plain Jane Desk with Chalkboard Paint

October 21, 2011

There is no rhyme or reason to the order in which I take on and complete projects! One minute I’m sewing or baking and the next I’m crocheting or building something. My latest project is a desk makeover. We bought this desk for our guest bedroom about two years ago because we needed something simple [...]

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How to Make Your Billy Bookcases Unboring

September 26, 2011

Last month I mentioned the tale of my three billy bookcases. Good old faithful billy bookcase 1, 2 & 3 have been a part of our family for 9 years! Although they are in good condition, the colour and look are not right for what we have in mind for our basement family room. See [...]

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Knock Offs Challenge Follow Up

September 10, 2011

Hooray! I am so excited to discover that my DIY playroom storage project made the top ten in The CSI Project’s Knock Offs Challenge! So, so cool.This was a fun challenge to participate in. I really enjoyed checking out all the great knock offs by fellow bloggers. Judging by the other entries, people really love [...]

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The CSI Project Knock Offs Challenge

September 8, 2011

Save Over $1500 by Building These PB Inspired Projects Yourself Do you ever look at something at the store and think, gosh that is so perfect, I have to buy it? You look at the price tag and then suddenly, the item isn’t so perfect after all. Don’t despair and pass up on the item [...]

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Build the Media Cabinet You Really Want

September 6, 2011

DIY Media Cabinet Reveal & FAQs So you want a good quality media cabinet but you are not prepared to pay the price; however, you don’t really want to settle for the cheaper alternative because it’s not quite what you want. Does this sound familiar?

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He Says It’s a Hunk of Junk, She Says Otherwise

August 29, 2011

On the weekend we made our regular trip to Homesense for a quick browse. While hubby was looking for boring stuff like socks, I ran into this French Style accent table smack dab in the middle of the store. Pretty cute eh? I’ll tell you something that will make you love this fab piece even [...]

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A Tale of Three Billy Bookcases

August 25, 2011

I‘m really excited to tell you about my latest DIY project. I’m amazed I haven’t thought about this sooner. This is what being house poor does to people. You become very resourceful and learn to find ways to reuse, recycle or redesign stuff. First, let me tell you about the room I’m currently working on. [...]

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