I’ve always loved the look of tailored skirted console tables.  Normally, you see skirts on round tables, but you can really slipcover anything.  Not only does it cover up a less than stellar or mis-matched piece of furniture, but it can give you some hidden storage.

Here are some of my favorite inspiration pictures:

And all of these pictures gave me the inspiration to tackle an eyesore in our bedroom:

Isn’t it pretty???  It was my husbands “entertainment center” in his old apartment, …

I first came across this project last year on Little Green Notebook, and I finally tried this out myself!  It’s an inexpensive way to make a custom roman shade for any window out of any fabric you want.   All you need are some inexpensive mini-blinds,  your fabric of choice (enough to cover the blinds when fully let out), fabric craft glue like Fabri-tac (not hot-glue), scissors, a tape measure, and any trim you’d like to add.

You’ll want to do this on a flat …

With all the moving around Dr. Dave and I do (we’ve moved 4 times in 2 years!), we haven’t had much of a chance to accumulate nice artwork.  But with so many white walls, it gets old quickly!

So this weekend, we found a little way to decorate our wall with some things we had laying around, and came up with:

This little number!  I actually love the way it turned out, and it was SO easy to do.  It really warms …

The first to-do on my list is to was to find new chairs for cheap – and I mean cheap. In the heat of the moment at our garage sale, I sold part of our “collection” of hand-me-down dining chairs. After that we were stuck using half folding chairs, half wooden chairs. After the garage sale, we took a trip to IKEA, where I picked up these two white slipcovered chairs. I highly recommend them if you are in the …

Sewing can be such a fun and rewarding hobby.  There are so many great projects that allow you to add a handcrafted element to your home.  And if you prefer a slightly different type of motivation, there are gorgeous fabrics to chose from allowing those handcrafted touches to be custom to your style.

Yet sewing can be an intimidating and time consuming hobby, can’t it?  Between balancing all the aspects of daily life (career, family, etc) I sometimes find myself preferring …

In addition to our boozy gift baskets, we made cute marble magnets for nearly everyone on our gift list this holiday season. In fact, these were so easy and fun to create, we couldn’t stop making them. We packaged them in little cellophane bags and tied them right into the bows on our packages. Now that we’re past the holidays, these would make great little hostess or birthday gifts… dressed up in an Altoid tin, perhaps? Here’s a pile of our magnets …

Subtitle: When All Else Fails, Get Your Siblings Drunk!

You remember the extreme limitations imposed upon my family gift-giving this year, don’t you? After trying and failing at a few different ideas for my siblings and their SOs, our highly scientific thought process went something like this:

Without further ado, our Crafty Christmas:

To set the theme, I made booklets for each couple that were printed on cardstock, hole-punched, and tied with holiday ribbon. I forgot to take a photo of the finished products, but here are …

I needed a somewhat fashionable curtain for our bedroom, and wasn’t having an easy time of explaining what I wanted to a seamstress. After trying a few times to find an affordable option in the stores, I gave up and created my own bohemian version (i.e. I didn’t pull out the machine and sew the seams).

Here’s the finished version:

Take your fabric and cut into strips that are about a foot longer in length than they need to be, and in …

I love getting Christmas cards in the mail. Photo Christmas cards are my ultimate faves and of course, anything handmade makes me squeal in excitement. So I decided that as long as I can muster up the energy, I will be hand making our cards each year. So far so good. Next year, with a 9 month old? Not so sure it will happen. But for now it’s one of my favorite projects each year.

In 2007, the year of our …

Not going to lie, this next craft is a labor of love.  It’s a bit time consuming, but it’s a great thing to keep your hands busy on a cold night in front of the fireplace!  These hand-embroidered cards make a great gift for friends (I made them for our holiday swap…hope you enjoy them, Cyd!) , not to mention that they are far cheaper than purchasing them in the store…

Materials needed:
-Kraft paper cards and envelopes (Michaels or other craft …