Update: I’ve since switched out the plant in my hanging himmeli plant holder. Here’s the new one: The plant is a type of Tradescantia pallid (otherwise known as wandering Jew, which is a problematic name) that is very easy to grow. After I made my geometric himmeli gems, I couldn’t decide quite where to put them. This one […]
DIY Mesh Skirt Modification
It’s been kind of a long time since I’ve done any clothing projects. But I’ve been seeing net and mesh used in a lot of cool ways this Spring (some of which I rounded up here), and I was feeling inspired. So I took a pencil skirt that I’ve had for a long time, and […]
10 Last-Minute DIY Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
When you have a busy life, it can be too easy for holidays like Mother’s Day to sneak up on you. You know it’s coming, but you think you have plenty of time, until suddenly it’s Friday and the holiday is on Sunday. I shared a couple of ideas recently (eye magnets and a striped […]
DIY Eye Magnets
Make your own eye magnets out of clay and paint.
Striped Succulent Terrarium
One thing I definitely inherited from my mom is a love of plants. She has extensive gardens, and often during the summer she doesn’t stop weeding and planting until it’s too dark to see (although I wouldn’t be surprised if she kept going with a headlamp). While growing up, often I was drafted into helping, […]
My DIY Industrial Pendant Light
Lately I’ve been working on house projects that we’ve been meaning to tackle ever since we moved in a year ago (see bathroom painting). We go back and forth between “What’s the hurry? We have years ahead of us to get this stuff done!” and worrying that we’ll get so used to the status quo that […]
Mini Bathroom Makeover
Before: After: I kind of can’t believe that we’ve lived in this house for a year, and until a few days ago, we hadn’t done anything to the upstairs bathroom. It felt like until we could give it a full makeover, why bother? Now it feels a thousand times better to be in the room, though. […]
Starting My DIY Vertical Garden
When it warmed up outside and the plants began poking their heads above the ground and growing leaves again, I started thinking about fixing up our yard. Last year we didn’t do much other than put in some raised vegetable gardens and try to keep the grass mowed, so it needs a lot of work. […]
A New Skill: Stone Setting
On Sunday I attended a jewelry class I had been looking forward to for a while. It was on free-form stone setting, and it was the first time they had offered the subject at my favorite bead shop, Dava Bead (they have tons of classes, but they fill up quickly). It wasn’t addressed in any of my […]