Crafts
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A September 2026 Life and Creative Update
Hi everyone! As many of my readers may have noticed, I’m been really quite online for the past few months. Even though I haven’t published posts, I have been watching my social media profiles and blogs. I just haven’t felt up to posting as much as I normally do. Since I’ve been so quite, I decided to write a short post about how I’m doing and what I’m working on.
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Winter Deer Scene Embroidery Kit Progress: The Finished Scene & Final Thoughts
Hi everyone! It’s time for the final post about the Winter Deer Scene embroidery kit progress! In this post, I am showing the finished embroidery without the hoop. I am also going to talk about the embroidery design and if I like it.
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Some Thoughts on JoAnn Stores and Their Most Recent Bankruptcy Filing
Hi everyone! I don’t normally talk about stores or brands and their business dealings, but I feel like I need to talk about JoAnn’s most recent bankruptcy filing. In 2024, JoAnn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I used to mention the JoAnn store many times in my sewing posts, but I stopped because I started to not shop there for fabric or DIY supplies. There were several reasons for this, but one of them is because the closest store to where I live became to hard to me to travel to. Despite my slowing interest in shopping at JoAnn, I also didn’t like the fabric selection they had. The quality…
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How to Fix Loose Glitter on Christmas Decorations with With Nail Polish
Hi everyone! It’s the holiday season and you can see it everywhere, especially in decorations. If you are like me and love glitter on Christmas decorations, you probably know how hard it is to clean up loose glitter from those decorations. For many years, I experimented with different ways of making glitter say on something. Although my attempts have kept the glitter on the object, they seemed to dull the shine of the glitter. Last year, I decided to try something new and, much to my surprise, it worked! Since I liked how it worked so much, I decided to share it this holiday season!
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Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- The Finished Sign
Hi everyone! Well, it’s almost Christmas and I’ve been pretty busy. Even though I’ve been busy, I was able to finish the sign! As of this publishing of this post, it is currently hanging up in my house as part of my Christmas decor. Since it is in use, I decided to take a photograph of the sign hanging on the wall.
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Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- Ruff Background Paint and Second Thoughts About Color Schemes
Hi everyone! I made some progress painting the Christmas Tree Farm sign. After my second thoughts staining the edge of the sign, I decided to proceed forward in painting the sign. I wanted the stain to be a red tone and the background of the sign dark green. From there, I would paint the sign’s wording and other decorations on it. Since the stain was more purple berry colored than red, I didn’t know if the green background would clash with the stain color. Even though I was worried, I decided to proceed forward in painting the background.
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Wood DIY Star Ornaments and The Success and Struggles to Paint Them Gold Like Dior Charms
Hi everyone! Last year, I decided to buy unfinished wood star ornaments. I had an idea to make them look like star charms that come with purchases made from the luxury fashion house Dior. I saw people online hand their star charms on their Christmas trees, which I liked a lot. Stars are a favorite shape and design, so having a tree full of them caught my eye. The only problem is the people online seem to shop at Dior far more than I do because they had many stars to hang on their tree! In order to have star charms to hang on my tree, but not go into…
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Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- Staining the Edge & Second Thoughts On the Stain Color
Hi everyone! Last year, I purchased a DIY Christmas Tree Farm wood sign from Michael’s Crafts. At that time, signs advertising Christmas trees meant something special to me. (And no, it doesn’t have to do with Taylor Swift’s song!) I saw the sign multiple times when I would shop at Michael’s. I really liked it more than other finished signs, so I decided to purchase it and decorate it myself. Even though I started working on it last year, I finished it this year. I wanted to talk in blog posts about the process I went through to decorate the sign and the thoughts I had a long the way!
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Dollar Tree Sailing and Ocean Themed Wood DIY Ornaments
Hi everyone! A few years ago, I decided to start creating more customized home decor. I wanted to do this prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but decided to after the pandemic started. What spurred my desire to make customized home decor was my worries about finding new decor made out of higher quality materials. I also wanted to do this in order to have more things I made and can display around my house. Earlier this month, I went to the Dollar Tree to see if they had any new books for sale. (I like to shop there for books) While there, I found the summer inspired decorations. They looked…
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