Zontee at Lion Brand Yarn shows off four different ways to decorate your holiday gifts with yarn in this special Yarn Play video. Learn how to make a Woven Wonder Gift Topper, Mini Pom-Pom Gift Topper, Fluffy Pom-Pom Topper, and one of my favorites the Yarn Wreaths (pictured below). Watch the video and then take […]
This year’s holiday virtual greeting card from Chronicle Books was a really fun, stop motion video starring several of the marketing staff members. Shot by Thayer Gowdy and with music from Ben Kasman, the one-minute video is comprised of more than 700 individual shots. One of my favorite parts of the video included the unveiling […]
By Kami Bigler Cake bunting is a fun trend going on right now, adding height and dimension to any simple cake. The great thing about it is that your cake decorating skills can be mediocre. This takes the attention away from the frosting and moves it to the top of the cake. Most commonly used […]
I was very excited to participate in this year’s Brooklyn Bride Holiday Card Swap. I’ve gotten some great cards so far (I’ll post pictures of them all as soon as I get them all!), so I thought I’d share what I made and sent out. Take a look.
I love these ideas for incorporating stitching in your wrapping paper and gift tags from Alisa Burke. They would be great for the holidays or to create a large batch of wrapping paper and tags for use throughout the year!
Bakerella shows us how she used an ice cream cone cookie cutter to create these cute Santa and elf cookies for the holidays. She even created PDF templates to use for decorating the cookies, and the embroidery-obsessed side of me can’t help but notice the patterns would be great for stitching as well!
Have some scrap fabric and a few minutes? Bust out a couple of these little house ornaments. The tutorial is over on Belle & Burger. They would be awfully cute as present toppers, as well as hanging on a Christmas tree. I can see spacing them along a ribbon or cord, to make a bunting-type […]
