Handmade Holiday: Make Your Valentine out of Comic Books

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Or newspaper. Or sheet music. Or parchment paper. Or wrapping paper. Or napkins. Or old scrapbook paper. Or crinkled aluminum foil. Or pre-colored coloring book pages. Anything that you can cut a heart out of or paint a heart on, you can make into a Valentine. Make your Valentine out of yarn. Or twine. Or [...]

Green Crafter Profile: My Mom’s Basement

Watermelon Bling by Emilee Heath

Atlanta crafter Emilee Heath started My Mom’s Basement as an outlet for her and her friend Justin’s zines. When her grandmother, also a crafter, gave Emilee a sewing box full of beautiful vintage buttons, her crafting turned to jewelery.

Making a Paint Brush Caddy Out of an Old T-Shirt

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Even though the weather is still gloomy, and there aren’t any real signs that Spring is on the way, I have started to clean and organize my house in preparation.  One of the first rooms that I tackled recently was my art room, and I realized that in one drawer I had a ton of [...]

Simple Green Craft Cleanup Solutions

Baking soda and vinegar

After getting down and dirty with your craft, there’s that dreaded task of cleanup. This simple task can get a little more dicey once the paint, marker, oil pastel or glue finds itself outside of the protected craft area. So to help, here’s a list of green cleaning products that you can use to clean [...]

Fab Fabrics: Vintage Feed and Seed Bags

Feedbag Bags by Mad Creek Designs

Want to add a little kitsch to your next sewing project? We’ve got just the thing! Pam Knott over at Mad Creek Designs stocks these fabulous feed bags, seed bags, and gunny sacks in all sorts of different patterns. Growing up in Iowa, she remembers her grandmother’s vanity bench covered with one, the kitchen curtains [...]