Fiesta kicks off this week in San Antonio and papel picado banners are popping up all over town. I love the bright colors fluttering in the breeze, but I’m not a fan of disposable decor. So I decided to make my own reusable faux papel picado banner with fabric scraps and paint. Raid your stash […]
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Top Ten Nature Crafts at Spare Parts
Nature Crafts photo via Spare Parts Studio I’m guest posting again over at Spare Parts, and this time I’m sharing my top ten nature-related crafts. Mary, founder and director of Spare Parts, sent me on a quest to find the best nature crafts with a focus on reuse and repurposing, and I had a blast! […]
Quick Craft: Toy Tray Upgrade
We’re big fans of a certain wooden toy company here at the Johnson house. The only qualm I have is that their products always come in these trays that aren’t really good for storing the toys that came in them. So we usually end up getting rid of them–but not this time! I love to […]
Upcycled Fingerless Gloves
We actually had a (kind of) cool day this week and found myself dying to knit up some fingerless gloves from a pattern in the fall issue of Craft Sanity magazine I recently downloaded. Of course it was mid-morning when I got the urge and I was smart enough to realize there was no way […]
The Thrifted Wardrobe
I very rarely by new clothes for myself. Number one, they’re expensive, and number two, it promotes textile waste. And I’m not a super fashion saavy mama, anyway, so I have my own eclectic style. I took a little trip to Goodwill yesterday in search for some fall clothes and found some cute pieces, like […]