My youngest daughter loves owls and has a friend who equally loves giraffes. When my daughter asked me to paint a colorful giraffe for her friend as a birthday gift…
We love to have family and friends over for a backyard barbecue. I thought I would show how I decorated our backyard inexpensively for our barbecue. I had the patriotic…
I have always been able to see something cast off made into something beautiful. This pile of collected objects all came from a thrift store over a period of about…
In my back yard I have a garden containing a variety of herbs growing in several containers. Most are combined with other herbs, but the vigorous mint is in a…
After the makeover on this bench, I had a large triangle of buffalo checked fabric left over from cutting bias to make the piping. I had this lamp body that…
This upholstered bench was a beat up, dinged up coffee table that was given to one of my daughters. A puppy had chewed up the…
I wish I had taken before and after photos of my process with this chair. I started almost a year ago (long before I started this blog) and got discouraged…
This is a simple quick project perfect for Mother’s Day or any other occasion. I had some pieces of upholstery webbing left over from an upholstery project (coming soon) and…
Sometimes a chair takes up too much room and this is the case in my small sewing area. I found this small bench that the cushion lifts off providing a…
Here is block 4 of the woodland baby quilt. As stated before not for commercial use.
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