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Quickie Blanket

January 16, 2012

This blanket is so beautiful. It is soft warm and completely luxurious. In addition to being luxurious, it is really easy and requires little time and minimum concentration. The pattern is super easy. I used size 35 needles with 6 skeins of Twinkle Hand Knits Soft Chunky. I used three skeins of Pink Champagne and [...]

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DIY Wall Art: Dot Painting

January 10, 2012

Although Eric and I have lived in our house for nearly two years, our walls are pretty much empty. Before we moved into this house our walls were filled with cheap mass produced IKEA prints. Over the past two years we have been slowly collecting new bits and bobs to decorate our walls. In the [...]

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Stenciled Memory Jar

January 4, 2012

I have never been into keeping a journal and I thought a memory jar would be a great way to remember some of the highlights to come in 2012.Instead of writing in a journal, Eric and I will be jotting down memory snippets throughout the year. Monday night we filled out our first memory card [...]

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DIY Photo Booth

December 6, 2011

If you want to get the party started and entertain your guests for hours on end, set up an inexpensive, homemade photo booth. This is a fun and creative activity that will add excitement to any event. To build my photo booth, I bought three clamp lamps from IKEA, 2 upright lamps and a box [...]

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DIY: Stamped Clay Christmas Ornaments

November 21, 2011

This is such an easy DIY project. It is cheap, quick and the final result is a clean, minimalist and elegant Christmas ornament. Tweet This Post

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DIY: Fabric Lined Drawers

November 8, 2011

This is a nice and easy DIY project to jazz up any old (or cheap) dresser. I recently purchased two Rast night stands from Ikea. They are the cheapest pieces of furniture you have ever seen. As you can see, the bottom of the drawers are that awful cheap particle board. I had some lovely [...]

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DIY Art: Ampersand

September 28, 2011

Last winter I took a graphic design course that piqued my interest in typography. Without a doubt the coolest of all characters is the ampersand. The ampersand is elegant, streamlined, stylish and interesting. With this in mind I started thinking about how I could incorporate the ampersand into my home decor. I came up with [...]

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The Avery Blanket

August 10, 2011

Last month two of my dearest friends had a beautiful baby girl. They named her Avery Charlotte and she is absolutely gorgeous! I made this blanket for her. It is really simple to make and its beauty lies in the choice of yarn. I choose a super soft %100 merino wool. It was totally worth the [...]

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Teardrop Trailers

July 11, 2011

Yesterday afternoon Eric and I came across several DIY teardrop trailers and now I’m hooked. They are tiny trailers built for two that can be towed using any vehicle. Teardrop trailers gained popularity in North-America during the 1930s. After the Great Depression and World War Two, the economy recovered, soldiers were home and people were [...]

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Five Tips for Blocking Your Knitting

July 5, 2011

After watching all seven Harry Potter movies I am finally finished my latest knitting project (more on that later). Despite all the time and effort I spent on this project I was disappointed with the piece’s overall shape. The good news: the project is salvageable thanks to blocking. What is blocking? Blocking is a technique used to finish [...]

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