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Make It : A Thanksgiving Wreath

Posted by Nick Andersen

This is a corn wreath I made for A Texas Thanksgiving. The secret to it’s construction is gluing wire into the base of the corn, it makes it easy to secure to the form and arrange once you are done. It takes some time to prep the corn but it is constructed very simply. Smaller corn …

Make It : easy fall decoration

Posted by Silke Stoddard

It isn’t often that I find the time to  do the projects we produce for the magazine for my personal life , as I’m always too busy developing the next story (yes, that is Thanksgiving 2010 for me). But today I decided to take the 15 minutes it would take to decorate my own house …

Make It : simply change the buttons

Posted by Silke Stoddard

Buttons seem to be the part that designers skimp on first …. what a shame. It has such an impact !
So more often than not when I buy a piece of clothing, the first thing I do is to change the buttons. Most recently I replaced the plastic molded hideous shank buttons on an inexpensive …

Make It : Halloween Costumes: Quick & Easy

Posted by Kristin St. Clair

Halloween is around the corner and every season friends ask me for costume crafting help.  My “go to” solution for this Halloween is a hoodie. An inexpensive solid color hoodie can be turned into almost anything. With just a few embellishments, a brown hoodie can easily become a wolf, a green hoodie a frog, a …

Make It : Faded Paper

Posted by Blake Ramsey

To avoid fading, I try to keep my paper projects out of direct light in our sun-drenched craft room. But fading is not always undesirable- I discovered this forgotten pink paper on a windowsill at our old office and used it to make some valentine postcards.  

I like the ombre effect on the rhinos (traced …