Craft Ideas Blog

February 2010

Flirty Aprons is offering a 30% coupon for any purchase between now and midnight on February 28. Lots of their aprons are on sale for $24.95, and the coupon would make them only about $17! To redeem your coupon, enter “30Coupon” into the coupon code section when checking out. Get your mother’s day gift early [...]

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Felt is so cheap and pretty easy to work with, and with my scraps I came up with a felt puzzle for Elliot to enjoy at church or in the car. Here’s what you’ll need: pattern/shapes for the design craft felt in various colors Sharpie marker fabric marking pencil or chalk wheel scissors crochet thread [...]

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My ironing board is an odd size and my old cover was useless, so I made my own tonight. It cost under $5 and took less than 2 hours. I opted for the silverĀ  ironing board cover fabric that is cotton with an aluminized coating for two reasons. Fabric gets scorched and nasty looking eventually [...]

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The winner of these adorable ties is Amanda N! She said, “I hate to be a copy cat, but seriously the green and blue stripe is my fave. AND i think the hubz and the boys would dig it too.” What good taste she has! And the runner up is Julia Chandler who said, “I [...]

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My craft room is in my basement where there is none natural light, so some of the photos are poor, but they’ll at least help to clarify the instructions! My newest acquired skill and hobby is knitting. I LOVE IT. So relaxing…And since I can’t have my knitting needles strewn about, a case was in [...]

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After almost 6 years of being the master of my own kitchen (and dishes, unfortunately) I have discovered that my favorite dishwashing “tool” is a very small dish cloth. Sponges are gross, those plastic scrubber things fall apart, and regular sized dish cloths are too big. I had some terry cloth scraps so I cut [...]

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This is a guest post by Bart Ilce with gastricbypassinsurance.com. It is a weird topic for my site, but he begged me so I let it pass. I honestly think it was poorly written but I promised him I would post it before I saw the content and so I decided it best to keep [...]

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THE PRIZE One lucky reader will win a set of matching neck ties from My Favorite Pal! And everyone gets free shipping when you use the coupon code “vanillajoy” at checkout. MY REVIEW You might recognize these ties from the picture in our Valentine from last week, and they’re our very favorite new things from [...]

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For anyone who owns a vinyl cutting machine or a vinyl business, there is a great vinyl design website offering a contest to win free designs! VinylReadyDesigns.com is currently sponsoring a contest which runs through Monday, the 22nd of February. There are many ways to enter and even earn multiple entries. The prizes include packages [...]

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I am super excited to share some good news with you all – I was chosen to be a Frigidaire Test Drive Mom! That means that I get to review the Frigidaire Affinity washer and dryer in May and tell you all about it! My dryer takes about three times longer than it should so [...]

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