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I was very excited to be asked by the folks at Mommy Page for an interview regarding my recycled craft projects! Mommy Page is a great resource for Moms (and Dads) with lots of information on parenthood, raising children, teaching, and yes, you guessed it- crafts! I was thrilled that they wanted to talk with…
Awesomeness! This week, Crafts ‘n Things Weekly is featuring my Magnetic Mousetrap Clips! Just in time for back to school! These fun refrigerator clips are perfect for hanging up school work, keys or important notes. And they are fun to make! I designed a fresh new look for my mousetraps especially for Crafts n Things…
Have a few burnt out lightbulbs hanging around? Did you know that you can make some beautiful sun catchers with them? Obviously nothing gets thrown away in my house if it is possible to paint it! For this project I used: 3 burnt out light bulbs black fabric puff paint acrylic paints glitter stick on…
Did you create a project from the Sitcom? We want to see it! I get quite a bit of email every day, and occasionally along with that, a reader will share a project that they created using one of my tutorials. It totally makes my day! Here are a few that were sent to me…
I do a lot of work with recycled materials, and one of my favorites to work with is disposable aluminum cookie sheets. Here are four entirely different craft ideas for disposable aluminum. Turns out, it is a very versatile medium! Faux Tin Tiles created from a recycled disposable cookie sheet. A bit of embossing with…
Happy New Year! If you are a regular reader of The Sitcom, then I’m sure you are familiar with some of these tutorials! I ran a scan through Google Analytics to find out what my most popular ones were for 2012. Some of them were a surprise, and some of them weren’t. I’ve been referred…
This is a guest post by Heather Green Ikea makes wonderfully simple and inexpensive furniture that provides a fantastic canvas for enthusiastic DIY’ers. With a coat of paint or some simple repurposing, many basic pieces can be turned into custom pieces of furniture that show off a personal sense of style. Ikea furniture is great for creating fun…
Chrysanthemum Mirrors are all the rage in Pinterest right now. My sister, sister-in-law, and my Mom and I decided to get together once a month to create a project. I got to choose the project this time and chose the Chrysanthemum Mirror by Kristi at Addicted2Decorating. This project is a simple one and took us about…
I love the look of punched tin. And of course I wanted to go about it in a totally different way, simply because I’m cheap like that. So, rather than pricing out thin sheets of tin for this project, I collected a few aluminum cookie sheets from the Dollar Store. And faux punched tin was…