No Sew Kid's Advent Calendar

Chica and Jo

came up with a great no sew Kids Advent Calendar

using an over the door shoe caddy.

Very resourceful.

A little paper. A little laminating.

A stuffed Grinch to mark the date.

Paper Advent

I am L*OV*I*N*G

these downloadable/printable

advent containers.

HUGE fan of advent calendars,

but I am also loving the look and mantle deco of it all.

Leaf Lantern

Nadja over at Patch of Dirt Farm came up with a super

simple leaf lantern tutorial.

Those are not leaves on that lantern, but leaves scanned

and printed onto a piece of vellum.

This idea could be used for lots of things, including

table decorations for parties and holidays.

I did a similar printed vellum table decoration for my parents 50th

wedding anniversary, but I cut 3 frames per votive out of matte board.

This would have been a million times easier!

Cheap Artwork Tutorial

With this easy artwork tutorial the frame is the only cost.

This picture is made from paint chips from the paint counter.

The most complicated part of creating your artwork

is choosing the colors

and arranging them in a way pleasing to your personal color scheme.

The artwork shown has chosen to show each paint color's

name as part of the piece. I chose to hide the names and use only chips

that showed only color.

Paper Flowers

Dozi makes some beautiful flowers using

a square of paper, pencil and a pair of scissors.

Glue or tape optional.

Very simple.

Very easy.

I have used this same technique for felt flowers

I used for a headband embellishment and it worked like a charm.

Prepare for Thanksgiving

We are invited to my brother's house for Thanksgiving

again this year and I am thinking about making these drumstick hats.

My brother and his family are vegetarians.

They have made tofu-rkey in the past years, and have graciously

included a real turkey for their carnivorous friends and family.

But I really think that everyone would get a

huge kick out of seeing drumstick hats on a bunch of vegetarians.

Paper Fruit Sculpture

I am really opposed to doing ANYTHING to a book other than read it,

but I really like the look of this apple sculpture from Cheeky Magpie.

I suppose if I had a book that was a favorite and so well read that

the spine was broken...maybe. The end product is too cute

and the possibilities are endless. Chalk it up to repurposing, right?