Every year, I get a little too excited about decorating for Christmas. Not just the main tree in the living room – oh no, I have to decorate the smaller tree on my kitchen counter too. This year, I decided to take a different route and make natural ornaments with a mix of dried oranges,...
Every year I tell myself I will not bring home more plants. And every year I, somehow, end up at the garden center acting like a Victorian lady collecting orphans. So of course, another batch of those sad, black, plastic nursery pots appeared in my life. And like every DIY hoarder, my brain said, “Don’t...
If you’ve ever looked at your pile of random junk and thought, “This could be art,” congratulations — you’ve entered the DIY Holiday Zone. This is where two sad wooden crates, a random box, and one over-confident human become something that Pinterest influencers pretend to invent. This is the story of my Christmas truck. Let’s...
Let’s be honest — I might have a slight mushroom obsession. Every season they sneak into my decor somehow. Summer? They’re in the garden. Fall? On my shelves. Winter? Boom — they’re hanging from the Christmas tree like they own the place. I’ve accepted it. Mushrooms are my personality now. But this time, I took...
There are two kinds of people after a long day with kids: those who meditate… and those who open the candy drawer. Guess which one I am. So when the sugar guilt kicked in, I did what any responsible adult would do — I decided to pour my stress into plaster instead of calories. The...
Halloween décor always walks a fine line between spooky and straight-up tacky. You know what I mean — plastic skeletons that squeak when the wind blows, pumpkin lights that flicker like they’ve seen things, and glitter-covered bats shedding on everything you love. So this year, I wanted something different. Something weird, modern, and charmingly handmade....
So picture this: the kids are finally back in school, the house is quiet, and I’ve reached that dangerous stage of boredom where crafts start happening. My corgi, Emma, looked too relaxed, so I decided we both needed a creative outlet — or, as I call it, “mild chaos with decorative results.” The goal? Add...
I don’t know about you, but I always struggle with what to do when it comes to decorating my walls for Halloween. A garland is great, but sometimes you want something a little different, right? That’s where this project came in. While I was out for a walk by the beach (because sometimes you just...
If you’re tired of buying a fresh pumpkin every year just to watch it slowly melt into a puddle of orange goo, let me introduce you to concrete pumpkins. Yes, they weigh a ton, take forever to make, and at some point you’ll wonder why you didn’t just buy a $10 plastic one at the...
So, every year we go to the beach and, like clockwork, we return with souvenirs. And no, not the cheap little trinkets you buy in a shop. I’m talking bags of rocks, sticks, and things that probably looked magical through a child’s eyes but now just look like… sticks. This time we came home with...