Below freezing temps, school cancelled and ice on the inside of our mail slot. Brrr….! We’re staying in our pj’s and working on Valentines today (or at least for the next 15 minutes). {Clearly we’ve been so busy that there’s been no time for brushing hair. } {At least one of us is dressed and [...]
Archive for the ‘She’s Crafty’ category
Nov 12 2010
From Dark Dungeon to Cozy Craft Room
I was fed up. Every night before dinner, we had to clear off the crayons, coloring books, beads, paint and other projects that my crafty peeps had been using all day. We shoved everything into a cupboard, but it all creeped back onto the dining room table the next day. I longed for a room [...]
Apr 28 2010
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
That’s the magic of Kindergarten isn’t it? Check out what the kids in my son’s class did. They gussied up these plain pine chairs for their school’s Home Tour and Silent Auction. Ok, they did have a little help, but this project was pretty easy. The hardest part was to make sure all 75 Kindergarteners [...]
Mar 29 2010
The Easter Bunny Is Hopping Your Way
Yikes, where has March gone? And with Easter falling in early April this year, it’s likely to bite us in our big chocolate booty. With the kids home for spring break this week, we’re looking for some easy and fun projects to do. Luckily, these just landed in my inbox. With a quick jaunt to [...]
Dec 17 2009
Recycle Your Holiday Wrapping Scraps With Style
About this time of the holiday season I find myself surrounded by piles, rolls, and heaps of discarded wrapping paper. I save the cast offs in the hopes that the perfect little bauble box might find it’s way into my to-be-wrapped pile–a pile which seems to multiply at night while the sugarplums are dancing merrily [...]
Nov 23 2009
A Peacock Holiday Wreath? Why not?
From the LA Times Home Blog today…love the whimsy and color! Why wait until turkey day to hang the holiday wreath? And why spend a small fortune on greenery when you can quickly and easily create something equally dramatic that will last for years? These questions were on my mind on a recent craft supply [...]
Oct 19 2009
Cheap Art!
My mother-in-law is a genius! Now, honestly, how often do you hear those words uttered? Come on, give it some thought. Those poor mothers-in-law are one of the most abused stereotypes ever, even though so many of them help with our kids, do our laundry without even asking, and put six meatloaves in the freezer [...]
Oct 05 2009
Unconventional Curtains
Ok, so this isn’t really a craft, but the idea is simple, cheap and easy, which is our mantra here at simple-e-design. The other day I was at my dear friend, Betsy’s, and as I was washing up in the loo, I noticed her clever little cafe curtains. They’re tea towels, and they look so [...]
Aug 05 2009
Shake It Up and Spray It Down
Do you ever get your best ideas in the shower? You’ve got no pen, no access to any method of recording your thought, so you just have to repeat it (for 8 seconds, actually, in order for it to transition into your long-term, short-term memory, or something like that, according to our dad’s best secretary [...]
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