Creativity is Not a Hobby; it's a Way of Life!
.We have a bit of a Christmas tree conundrum this year. You see, there’s an extremely curious and active 15 month old in the house. There is NO way he’s going to keep away from something as bright and sparkly as a Christmas tree. While we consider the ins and outs of baby-proofing Christmas, I […]
Sometimes I think that the time getting ready for Christmas is even better than the big day itself. I love lighting the Advent candles each Sunday, setting out the pieces of our Nativity set bit by bit, and counting down the days on an Advent calendar, getting one step closer to Christmas Day. This Santa […]
I just love flowers – real, fabric, felt, paper, you name it – and I’m often incorporating flowers into my craft projects. I even made the flowers for my daughter’s wedding! (Of course, the boutonnieres and corsages were lost at the venue and we had to make a last minute dash to a florist to […]
Earth Month may be over but that doesn’t mean that the recycling and upcycling stops around here. I love to take materials I have just hanging around the house and turn them into something useful and beautiful. These Upcycled DIY Flower Vase Bookends are a fun way to make over a plain old cardboard box. […]
Welcome to the 2017 Ornament Exchange & Blog Hop! This year, there are 47 amazing bloggers participating in the exchange. The rules of the challenge were simple: be partnered with a fellow blogger, create a handmade ornament for $15 or under, create a tutorial, and ship the ornament off to a new home! Being a […]
I’m so excited to announce that my Basic Paper Quilling 101 post has been named one of the Top 100 Paper Crafts of 2016 on All Free Paper Crafts. This has long been one of my top posts on Creative Cynchronicity for bringing traffic to my site and is something near and dear to my […]
Being an introvert, I have a love-hate relationship with entertaining. I do enjoy having some friends and family over now and then but what I don’t enjoy is making such a big fuss that then I can’t enjoy spending time with them. That’s why when I have a party, I really like to serve foods […]
Are you kids crazy about making crafts? My daughter always was and the holidays were a time when she was pretty much desperate to craft all the time. (I wonder who she got that from?) Of course, I was always testing ideas for my art lessons at school too so it was a win-win situation […]
Welcome to the happiest time of year – appetizer season! Okay, okay, I’m joking – kind of. But I do love holiday entertaining time because appetizers just make me happy. I’ll choose savory over sweet 99% of the time and often make whole meals of just appetizers. So, all the tasty little tidbits served over […]
To say that I collect nutcrackers would be an understatement. I have over 100 of them. It all started when my dad (Walter) took me to the ballet and I became immediately enchanted. It’s one of the things I shared with my students at the beginning of each new school year as we got to […]
