Posts Tagged ‘diy’

Airmail Wedding Favors

While out shopping for clothes hangers with my husband, I spotted these Coppenrath Traveller Cookies on Tour, and got way too excited. Each cookie is imprinted with a different city, making them perfect for a travel themed party, tea, or wedding. I could see these cute little vintage airmail envelope cookie favors that I made…

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DIY: Map Art

As we near the Fourth of July, I thought that I would share this easy “I Heart the USA” map art that is hanging in my boys room. All you need is a map, frame (with or without matting), paper cut down to the size of the frame, glue, and scissors. You can pick up…

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Homemade Tomato Pasta Sauce

There is nothing like returning home from vacation to be greeted by a garden filled with a bunch of ripe roma tomatoes. Of course, my husband made salsa right away. And naturally, I decided to make homemade sauce to serve with whole grain pasta for dinner. Armed with the basic ingredients (most from the garden),…

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DIY: Wrapped Bracelets

The kids and I decided to make these bracelets as a Mother’s Day craft. You will need old, plastic, bangle bracelets that you don’t care for anymore. If you don’t have any, you can pick some up from a second hand store. I picked up a few for about $0.70 each. You will also need…

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DIY: Rock Garden Signs

This is a follow-up project to the chalkboard garden stakes that I made for our garden.  They look and work great, however, if you water the garden liberally like my husband (and I am sure most people do), your garden stakes will also get wet, and then, you are back to square one.  So, I…

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