Hi friend! Can I tell you about the worst gift-giving moment of my year? It was 9:40 on a Tuesday night, my neighbor’s birthday brunch was the next morning, and I was standing in my craft room holding a gift bag with nothing to put in it. You know that feeling. The stores were closed,…
Hi friend! Tell me if this sounds familiar: someone suggests friendship bracelets for craft night, everybody cheers, and then you look up a pattern and find yourself staring at a grid of arrows that looks like knitting homework crossed with sheet music. Chevrons, diagonals, letters, charts. I watched a table full of grown women go…
Hi friend! Can we talk about those macramé plant hangers that are suddenly in every boutique window and all over the craft feeds again? The knotted ones holding a little trailing pothos, looking all breezy and expensive? I was in a cute shop last week and turned over the tag on one: twenty-two dollars. For…
Hi friend! Have you seen those gorgeous window suncatchers floating around the craft groups this month? The ones that glow like little stained-glass panels when the morning sun hits them? A photo of one made the rounds in a big craft community last week, and the whole comment section turned into a hunt for the…
Hi friend! Can I tell you about the craft that has been taking over my kitchen table this week? Homemade stickers. Real, glossy, peel-and-stick stickers, made from your own little drawings, with no cutting machine, no printer, and no special paper. The secret is a roll of plain clear packing tape, and I promise the…
Hi friend! Before you read another word, go peek in your junk drawer. I will bet you a cup of coffee there is an empty mint tin in there, and today that little tin is going to become the sweetest handmade gift you have made all summer. We are decorating keepsake tins, and the whole…
Hi friend! Today’s craft has the best supply list I have ever written, because the main supply is sitting in your yard right now, and it is free. We are painting rocks. Before you picture the lumpy paperweights from summer camp, let me show you what ten minutes and a paint pen can do, because…
Hi friend! If you have a plain terracotta pot sitting in the shed and a couple of bottles of acrylic paint, you are ten minutes away from a gift that looks like it came from a cute little garden boutique. This is one of my favorite quick wins for summer: the pot does most of…
Hi friend! If you have a few felt scraps, a button, and ten quiet minutes, you can make the sweetest little flower pin without sewing a single stitch. This is a good beginner craft because the petals do not have to be perfect. Once they are layered together, the whole thing looks soft, cheerful, and…
Hi friend! Do you remember shrink plastic — those sheets you draw on, pop in the oven, and watch curl up into a tiny hard charm? It feels like magic every single time, and it is one of the easiest ways to make truly custom charms at home. Here is how to do it. Coloring…
