It’s Easter and Holy Week. We have been doing different activities that coincides with our Bible Passages all this week. It’s been a lot of fun and reminds us of the sacrifice Jesus made for us for the forgiveness of our sins. Let’s get to it. Here’s what’s happening this week: 24 — Palm Sunday …
Category: Creative Crafting
Crocheting a Dishcloth for Beginners
Crocheting a dishcloth can be made simple with the single crochet stitch. It can be used as a dishcloth, face cloth, mug rug or like what I’m using it for — a cover for my sourdough starter! I was never taught how to knit or crochet. I tried learning to knit several years ago, but…
Sewing a Magic Pillowcase
Sewing a pillowcase, like this magic pillowcase is actually quite simple. There’s a few steps to it, but these pillowcases turn out beautifully every time! This past Christmas, I made a bunch of pillowcases as Christmas presents because for the past few years, we have been doing a homemade Christmas. It also makes a great…
Holiday Tic Tac Toe Game and Pouch
We enjoy making quick and simple games to play like this Holiday Tic Tac Toe game board. And nothing is better than homemade! Tic Tac Toe was once called Noughts & Crosses and there are several variations dating back to Ancient Egypt, around 1300 BC. What is more fun than making a holiday Tic Tac…
Painting Rocks
Painting rocks is a fun way to spruce up the garden, create a rock garden, as garden markers or spread joy and positivity throughout the neighborhood. We decided to paint rocks and hide them in our fellow gardeners’ plots at the community garden. And everyone enjoyed them! We chose to paint fun things like jokes…
Rustic Orange Slice Garland
We have been doing an old fashioned Christmas which has been wonderful! We decided to do all homemade decorations on the tree, so I decided to make a rustic orange slice garland for the tree. I also used apple and decided to sprinkle the fruit with cinnamon. It smells divine. As the fruit was drying…
How to Quickly Make a Homemade Kerchief
I am amazed how pioneers and even until the 1940s and ’50s how most sewed their own clothes. I find it fascinating – girls learned from their mothers who learned from their mothers, and was a skill passed on through the years until buying clothes became more popular than sewing them. I would have loved…
Quick to Sew Pot Holders
It is easy to make your own quick to sew pot holders!! We love different sewing projects that are easy, especially since we are sewing-beginners! These pot holders took me less than an hour to make, and probably took me more time to decide what fabric I wanted to use than to sew the pot…
