I love personalized items-note cards, pillows, key chains, wall hangings...and even if I have not made a personalized wall hanging for my so...

Two years ago I made this card for my husband for Valentine's Day.  It still hangs on our refrigerator with a  Bible verse inside that r...

Earlier this month I went to a baby shower.  Part of the gift I purchased came from a little toy store that gives white paper bags with the ...

You might remember my thoughts to make several handmade gifts for my fam ily.  Well, it was just a thought...not reality.  I still like the ...

I've always liked homemade paper.  It probably comes from my love of stationary.  So I was excited to learn how to make homemade paper ...

Finally!  I did it!!  With a few hours to spare, my Jesse Tree is complete !  (Left-click on any image to view it larger, as always.) Thi...

My daughter has quite the collection of dress-up jewelery.  It probably didn't help when my son broke a necklace and he replaced it with...

My daughter just had her last day of preschool in her speech and language classroom.  This is a huge praise because it means that her speech...

Last year my handmade Christmas items were incredibly limited...almost non-existent.  (But baby Jesus in the manger was cute!)  I want it t...

Stitched  are pretty simple to make. Marie at Make and Takes has lots of patterns available and I was inspired to make my own. I created t...

If you are a grandpa or the dad to my kids, you should skip this post or spoil your surprise. This photograph does not show the potential ...

As a little thank you gift for my teacher and E's teacher at the end of our Bible study, I made these little personalized noteboo...

I made this tutu for M.  Isn't it giant?  A friend gave me some of her leftover white and pink tulle to do this.    The tutorial sugges...

I made this set of three wall hangings for a friend who just had her third daughter.  (Well, in December.  It took me a while, huh?)  My goa...

When it comes to Valentine's Day, we are pretty cheap around here!  This year was the first year I ever got flowers for ♥ Day.  I love t...

I made this manger to go with the Jesse Tree that didn't happen (yet) and the advent calendar with the tiny story books . Each day w...

It seems that I am multitasking my crafts these days. I have several things I am working on at once. I can't say that I like the idea of...

I made this card in the spring when our good friends moved to a new house. It was inspired by Marie at Make and Takes . She is yet anoth...

This project was inspired in early summer when my older sister gave me a necklace that had a tree on it and it said, "Family is nature...

I made this last week, but I am finally getting around to taking/posting pictures. M (not that the photo doesn't say the rest) has bee...