Some folks at Haptic Lab are making these luxuriously customized map quilts: Soft-Maps are handmade quilted maps of Brooklyn neighborhoods and parks that represent your unique place in the city. These heirlooms are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor’easter. Not only beautiful, […]
Zakka Life shows you how to keep your kids busy this summer by making them a plastic bottle jump rope. I love the plastic flower embellishment.
Here’s a stylish project from Tissuepaper on how to make a faux pearl necklace and bracelet out of cornstach clay. Who knew you could whip up some jewelry in the kitchen. It’s also a a fun project for kids.
It seems like summertime is the season of the birthday party in my circle of friends, at least as far as the kids are concerned. So I thought I’d come up with a quick craft to make for the children in my life that would be both inexpensive to create and easy to personalize. Something […]
My husband’s grandmother was a home ec./crafts teacher for an elementary school in France. Growing up, one of my husband’s favorite memories as a kid was the tepee grandma made (along with a matching Indian costume). I’ve seen some in pricy children’s stores so it’s so great to see a tepee tutorial online at Ali […]
Shannon at luvinthemommyhood refashions the sleeves from a men’s dress shirt into an adorable pair of toddler pants. The tutorial features a PDF and a video and is a part of her “newbie sewing series”. Shannon writes: When repurposing or refashioning an item, there is no such thing as leftovers in my house. After having […]
Woman’s Day features a bevy of craft projects kids can make for mom to wish her Happy Mother’s Day like this curlicue card made using colored construction paper.
