Category Archives: Projects

Oh. Ma. Ga.

Y’all. Have you seen these candlesticks from Anthropologie? SO FUN TO MAKE, right? If I could figure out how to drill through ceramic successfully. Although, I guess I did that with the plate stands I was making.  Huh. Might be worth a try. They’re selling them for $399. To whom, I can’t help but wonder?...

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Fun with Souvenir Plates.

I really love souvenir plates. I have some of them hanging in our apartment but there are only so many you can display before things start getting out of hand. So I decided to try and find some other way to use them that would allow me to display them in all of their kitschy...

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Pretty, pretty plates.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve added to my plate collection. I’ve given myself free reign to buy plates since I’ve got several projects in mind for them: wall clocks, tiered cake plates, and those plain old single cake plates I made earlier. Of course, there is a difference between planning to do something...

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Wrapping Paper Goodness.

More buys from that estate sale on Sunday…in the basement (usually my FAVORITE part of an estate sale) there was a trunk FULL of vintage wrapping paper. You could tell that some of it had been used — tape very carefully removed and paper smoothed out to save for later. As wrapping paper is one...

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Throw out the flotation device, I’ve gone overboard.

Can’t. Stop. Decal-ing. Glass. Jars. Good Lord. Now that it’s so big I can see a cat hair under the vinyl. CLASSY.

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