A friend in my neighborhood decided to start a weekly rotating craft club for our kids. We rotate different skills or activities for the kids to learn, each Mom taking 1 week/month. On my first week, I decided to make an Easter themed craft, a wood bunny Easter basket. I thought it would be fun for them to hammer together a little basket and have fun painting it with their … [Read more...]
30 Christmas Decorations You Can Make
Christmas crafting is one of my favorite times of the year! It's a great time to escape the cold and get together with friends and make darling things. I've gathered 30 unique Christmas crafts and decorations that you can make. Each project has a tutorial showing you how to make it. Kicking off the group are unique wreaths. Wreaths … [Read more...]
Scrap Wood Christmas Tree Ornaments
Can it really be December already? Christmas is just right around the corner. Time to get that Christmas tree put up and decorated! I've been using knotty alder in some of my build projects lately, leaving me lots of small 6" or less cut offs. Looking at my growing pile of scrap wood, I decided to make a few new ornaments to add to my tree. These scrap wood Christmas tree … [Read more...]
Magnetic Christmas Countdown Sign
My kids LOVE counting down holidays and events. My daughter even gets her calendar out and starts counting down to her next birthday...the day after her birthday. :-) To say that we love advent calendars around here, would be an understatement. I'm joining in on a Deck the Home Christmas challenge this week, and the theme is wood signs. I had a piece of scrap sheet metal, so I … [Read more...]
Table Top Gingham Christmas Trees
Gingham has been holding strong in Christmas decor for a few years now. The gingham has changed color combos a little, but I seem to see it everywhere. I thought it would be fun to use up some scrap wood and make a few table top gingham Christmas trees. As long as you paint these cute little trees with chalk paint (that dries quickly), then you can easily knock out a few of … [Read more...]
Easter Egg Decor with Engraved Eggs
This Easter Egg Decor and Dremel Stylo+ tool review is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Easter seems to be so early this year, wasn't it just St. Patty's Day? We love Easter … [Read more...]
Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas
This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Christmas is sneaking right up! Are you nearly done with your shopping/making/building??? I have a few more things left to do. One … [Read more...]
Sleigh Rides Wood Sign
Hi, and welcome to the first day of the 12 Days of a DIY Christmas! I've teamed up with 11 builder friends to bring you 12 fun woodworking projects. I'm excited to see what the others have up their sleeves, but I'll have to contain my excitement for another day! I like to save extra pieces of plywood from projects and use them to make wood signs. I needed a … [Read more...]
Holiday Decor in the Living Room
This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. I have been compensated for my time and provided with product. All ideas and opinions are my own. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. I struggle... with decorating... it's just not my thing... I don't have the knack for it. I'm chuckling a little bit … [Read more...]
Farmhouse 5×7 Photo Display
It's that time of year when those beautiful Christmas Cards start arriving in the mail of your favorite loved ones. Today's project will make it easy to display them, it's a 5x7 photo display board. But you can use this display board all year long to display your favorite 5x7 prints. This photo holder makes changing out cards and photos really slick, they just slide … [Read more...]