Green Living: Frugal DIY Beauty Products

After doing my post on green cleaning, I started thinking about how much money I was saving by not buying commercial cleaning products and how much safer I felt my family was without being exposed to all those chemicals. I started thinking of other ways to cut chemicals and unnatural products out of our lives and decided a great place to start would be some beauty items. I’m not fancy, I’m mostly a chap-stick-and-mascara-hair-in-pony kind…

DIY Tissues Tutorial

So I spent days getting the girls special outfits made for their first days of preschool this year, then Chloe went for her very first day and brought home the funk and knocked all 4 of us girls out! The Hubs managed to escape it, but the rest of us spent all last week drowning in snot. By the end of the first day everyone had red, raw noses from blowing and wiping. Ella wanted…

fabric designing

My favorite challenge on Project Runway is usually the episode when the designers get to create their own fabrics. I think most of us who sew dream of being a glamorous fabric designer, surrounded by bolts of gorgeousness we get to use endlessly. I know there are sites like Spoonflower, but that’s just not in my budget (I used to balk at their $16+ per yard prices, but my favorite local quilt store had bolts…

infinity dress with bandeau top

Last February when I competed in the So You Think You’re Crafty competition, I made an infinity dress. It was “Go Red for Women” week and I thought a sweet little dress for Valentine’s Day would be perfect. I scoured other tutorials for convertible dresses, but I was confused and frustrated, and decided make my own. My dress had a few mistakes as I was figuring out the best way to make it and upon…

twirly tshirt dress

For the third year in a row, I’ve had the privilege of making the outfit my friends daughter wears for her birthday party. Every year she dreams up the most adorable outfits for her kiddo and asks me to make them come to life. I was a little leery of this dress at first because I’ve only experimented with tshirt dresses one time before. But I just went for it and I absolutely adore it!…

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