DIY Maven

Hardcopy Pattern Organization

Your Hostess — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:58:58 +0000

If you’re like me, you probably have a pile of favorite crochet/knitting patterns that you’ve printed off the internet. I grew tired of sifting through my stack looking for the pattern I wanted, OR printing off a pattern only to discover it was already in my stash! The other day I splurged and forked over [...]

Bead and Wire Collage

Your Hostess — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:24:20 +0000

A while back my local art center featured a showing of mixed media collage. I was so inspired that I came home and decided to make my onw mixed media collage masterpiece too! I assembled all the usual suspects: paper, glue, glitter, scissors…well, you know who they are. Anyway, when i was finished I had [...]

How to make an inexpensive, collapsible light box.

Your Hostess — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:57:56 +0000

Light boxes are immensely handy for on-line sellers and we bloggers. And there are TONS of DIY versions on the internet that you can whip up for next to nothing. The only problem that I had with all those how-tos is that NONE were collapsible. So, using a tutorial I found over at DPS as [...]