Last year I made lots of paper lanterns and New Year inspired rosettes to decorate my mantel, as well as a building foyer that I stage.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Craft Ideas For Chinese New Year
Last year I made lots of paper lanterns and New Year inspired rosettes to decorate my mantel, as well as a building foyer that I stage.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
My Favorite Posts From 2015
How to Draw and Paint when you don't have time and don't know how is on both our lists!
This tutorial for making garden markers from old silver spoons was a favorite of mine.
I was able to spend a lot of vacation time creating art and drawing with my granddaughter this year, so the drawing tutorials are really special to me.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
What to Do With Unfinished Holiday Projects?
Lots of times, when I'm working on craft projects for the holidays, I don't finish them all in time for decorating and gift giving. For years, I felt like a failure when this happened, but now days, I realize I'm just "ahead of the game"!
It's okay if you don't finish everything before Christmas. You can always pack your incomplete projects away with your Christmas decor, and finish it up next year -- but a better idea is to go ahead and finish now (or during Christmas in July). You will be able to go into the next holiday season with lots of handmade gifts ready for giving! If you're a blogger, you can go ahead and write a post about it, and schedule it to be published during the holidays, freeing up your holiday time to spend with family and friends.
Over the 2014 holidays, I made lots of these icicle ornaments, that I blogged about here. I went ahead and finished them up (mostly) in January, so they would be ready for decorating or gift giving in December.
In 2015, I experimented with some papier mache Santa ornaments I saw on Emi's (Hectanooga) YouTube channel. Those didn't get finished, either, but I went ahead and got them all gessoed and ready to paint. I will finish them up as I have time, schedule a blog post about making them to be published during the 2016 holidays, and have a ready supply of gifts!
It's okay that these projects didn't get finished before Christmas. After all, it's just a matter of perspective, right? You can look at those unfinished projects as failures, or you can look at them as being "ahead of the game"!
If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to House Revivals in the sidebar, so you won't miss the fun projects we have planned. Find us on Facebook, too, so you can catch all the "in between" stuff, and see what I'm working on daily on Instagram. Feel free to link today's project to your favorite social media sites.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
~Amanda
It's okay if you don't finish everything before Christmas. You can always pack your incomplete projects away with your Christmas decor, and finish it up next year -- but a better idea is to go ahead and finish now (or during Christmas in July). You will be able to go into the next holiday season with lots of handmade gifts ready for giving! If you're a blogger, you can go ahead and write a post about it, and schedule it to be published during the holidays, freeing up your holiday time to spend with family and friends.
Over the 2014 holidays, I made lots of these icicle ornaments, that I blogged about here. I went ahead and finished them up (mostly) in January, so they would be ready for decorating or gift giving in December.
In 2015, I experimented with some papier mache Santa ornaments I saw on Emi's (Hectanooga) YouTube channel. Those didn't get finished, either, but I went ahead and got them all gessoed and ready to paint. I will finish them up as I have time, schedule a blog post about making them to be published during the 2016 holidays, and have a ready supply of gifts!
It's okay that these projects didn't get finished before Christmas. After all, it's just a matter of perspective, right? You can look at those unfinished projects as failures, or you can look at them as being "ahead of the game"!
If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to House Revivals in the sidebar, so you won't miss the fun projects we have planned. Find us on Facebook, too, so you can catch all the "in between" stuff, and see what I'm working on daily on Instagram. Feel free to link today's project to your favorite social media sites.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
~Amanda
Thursday, January 14, 2016
2016 Word of the Year
In past years, I've chosen the words Beauty, Health, Acceptance, and Intentional.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Most Popular Posts of 2016
Here they are, in no particular order:
Friday, January 8, 2016
How to Get Organized in the New Year!
With a little bit of paint and some Craigslist or thrift store filing cabinets, you can organize your life with style!
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