A great place to buy hand made crafts, jewlery and art!
I just found this place called Etsy. It’s a place where people who have made things; paintings, toys, jewlery, clothes etc… can sell them. It’s tagline is “Etsy – Your place to buy and sell all things...
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Painting again
In our new house our attic is very large and would lend itself well to painting. Sage is getting older and can nurse less frequently and my mind has been turning to painting again. I have always been...
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Getting Back in the Creative Groove… Kind of
So I’ve decided to be limitedly creative again and try to make some pocket change while doing it. I’ve developed a store on etsy.com. If you haven’t checked out this site yet you should it has all...
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Ghoulish Garlands
The girls and I decided to make some Halloween decorations. Their current obsession with vampires led them to create some crazy vampire families, good and evil, to hang around the house. While they...
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Getting Corny – Corn Husk Dolls
At our CSA’s harvest festival over the weekend I was a volunteer and I was tasked with helping both children and disabled adults create corn husk dolls. I had a blast. These dolls are very simple...
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Quick and Easy Pumpkin Candles
A few weeks back, in my Friday Finds, I posted about pumpkin lanterns. These small pumpkin candle/lanterns would be great for any Thanksgiving table. I finally had a chance to make these cute little...
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Friday Finds – Dressing The Thanksgiving Table
I’ve found many great ideas this week for decking out your Thanksgiving Table. Let’s start off with the centerpiece. This beautifully charming Indian corn centerpiece can be yours (if you make it.)...
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Sweet Felted Sweater Scraps
I purchased a bag of felted sweater scraps the other day, not really knowing what I’d do with them but figuring I could do something. Last night I broke into it and looked around the web for options....
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A Treasure’s been Hiding in my House
A few years back I was at a yard sale and spied a great set of Mid-Century Modern (MCM) candlesticks. I picked them up for just a couple of bucks and they’ve been in my living room ever since. The...
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Get your Home-Fires Burning with Homemade Beeswax Fire-Starters
My good friend Amy over at MyHomegrown.net made some beautiful fire-starters out of beeswax, sawdust and cardboard egg containers. She got the idea from 3191 miles apart and ever since I saw them I...
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Wordless Wednesday – Sew Special
For more info on this check out “How to Make a Ball Jar Sewing Kit“
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Peter Pan and Paper Tubes
We’re last minute kind of people so when we were told last week that our daughter needed a costume for her performance the following week we figured we had plenty of time. Fast forward a week (and a...
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How to Make Simply Beautiful Decoupage Lanterns
Over the weekend I needed to entertain 9 kids under the age of 9. It needed to be something that wouldn’t make too much of a mess but hopefully something that they could use at home and something that...
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Four Fun Easy 4th of July Crafts
Fireworks by jeff_golden, on Flickr With the 4th of July providing me with a long weekend I’ve been thinking about doing some crafts with the kids. Here’s a selection of four easy kids crafts that I...
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How to Make a Popsicle Stick & Wooden Bead Trivet
Recently this photo of my Popsicle stick trivet appeared on DIYLife. I was blown away by this and it has inspired me to finally write a tutorial for it. I originally made a trivet like this when I was...
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Unschooling the Practical Arts
One great thing about unschooling is that life is learning and “school” is always in session. This weekend we attended an Arts and Crafts festival in town and it was great. There were all sorts of...
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Four Fun Halloween Crafts for Kids – Friday Finds
It’s almost Halloween but we still have the weekend to get through! If your kids are like mine they are bursting at the seams they are so excited for Halloween to get here. I’ve rounded up four great...
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The Mathematics of Doctor Who’s Fez
My oldest is a huge Doctor Who fan. She has seen all of the episodes from the last couple of seasons and quite a few of the previous ones. When Halloween started getting close she wanted to be Doctor...
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Kids Craft – Egg Carton Caterpillars
My daughter collects egg cartons. She has a huge collection stuffed away in a cabinet waiting to turn them into something. We have used them to make fire starters in the past but the other day she...
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2011 Craft Round Up!
I’m a little late but still thought I’d round-up the most popular crafts of 2011 here on Harmonic Mama and I’d love for you to share yours! The most popular and the simplest is the no sew infinity...
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