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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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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My back is still really sore so you will all just have to wait a few more days to see what we have been up to in the back yard. At the moment I could not handle sitting at my computer for long enough to write the backyard post. In the meantime I thought I [...]
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Last week I finished knitting and felting my French Press Slippers. The last step of this project involved embellishing the slippers with a set of big green buttons. This was the perfect opportunity to cross “How to Sew a Button” off my Kicking it Old School List. To get started I gathered all my supplies [...]
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One of the things I hate most about our house is the mismatched cheap mini blinds covering all our windows. You name a type of blind and we probably have it. Metal blinds in the stairway, fake wood blinds in the front entrance and bamboo blinds in the kitchen. When we first moved in, I [...]
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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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On the way home from Vancouver, Eric and I stopped over in Vernon at the Davison Orchard. If you are ever in Vernon, you must stop at this delightful place. They have a lovely shop full of delicious fruit. The fruit is all super fresh and grown on-site. Davison Orchard also has a bakery where [...]
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With my peonies in full bloom it seemed like the perfect time to cross how to make a centerpiece off the Kicking it Old School List. Peonies are the perfect flower to cross this task off the list because they remind me of my grandma’s garden. With their full blooms and saturated colours, they are also my [...]
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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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Last week I pulled out my sewing machine for the first time in 10 years. I made a tote bag loosely based on a tutorial from Sew Mama Sew. I am awful at following directions so I sort of did my own thing. Below you will find a step by step tutorial on how I [...]
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