Pretty Little Spring Pinwheel perfect for flower pots and front lawns. Cut 1 or dozens. Directions: Two-Toned Pinwheel Instructions You will need 2 pieces of 8.5 in x 11 in card stock. (1) 5 inch piece of craft wire Cut 1 or 2 pieces of card stock using the template provided. This may be cut…
Easy Friendship Bracelet Patterns So this is the second page of the handout I got from Michelle’s! Again there wasn’t a copyright on it, so I thought I’d scan it and help them promote it! [I’m calling it helpful! lol] I LOVE Michelle’s! Look for Pattern 3 of 3 tomorrow. Easy Friendship Bracelet Patterns Elements…
Easter Egg Lightening Bugs These things are so much cuter when you’re not trying to photograph their Butts! Easter Egg Lightening Bugs is a great craft for children ages 8 and up. They have to be able to poke holes in the egg with a tack and cut pipe cleaners. You’ll need: * Plastic Easter…
This Do Doing Done printable is the Fridge version of the Post-It Note To Do List Journal Printable – Do, Doing, Done And yes I could have gotten away with 1 post for 2 printables, but Hey! I need the pageviews! So if you struggle remembering what you’ve started and haven’t been able to finish,…
I’ve been feeling like I haven’t been doing anything for our world. Yes, I’m finishing our house, sanding dry wall, painting, plus running the kids here there and everywhere, but I don’t feel like I’m doing enough. A while back on NBC Nightly News I saw a Making a Difference report on “Little Dresses for…
Easy Angel Crochet Pattern for beginners. Once you can make this Easy Angel Crochet Pattern you can move on to more difficult patterns with ease. You can use very thin crochet thread or heavy yarn, I have even used embroidery floss, the pattern is the same regardless only the hook size changes. The…
eos Lip Balm Cozy Free Crochet Pattern My daughter loves eos Lip Balm. I’m not sure why. eos are round and bulky, they don’t slip in a pocket easy. Sure they’re cute, but that’s about it. In an attempt to make carrying the eos easier I created a cozy that will hang from a key…
I love my little Chinese Food Takeout Box Printable! It is perfect for storing trinkets and kids love cutting them out and putting them together. This is the perfect Snow Day Project or something that can be done in school or scouts. There are 3 adorable prints each print comes from a “Created By Jill”…
I’ve seen several examples of this, but each time the directions read to glue the light to the top of the jar. Eventually the bulb is going to burn out – then what? By Velcro-ing the light to the top of the jar you can replace the Solar Light when needed or just remove the…
Members of the FaceBook group Silhouette Cameo Design & Inspiration asked for a few easy card templates to practice cutting. So here is a very easy, first cut project. For a second easy project visit TheStuffOfSuccess.com For something a little more difficult see Project #2 Special Occasion Card – Free SVG Card Template #SilhouetteCameo, #Circut…
Easy Friendship Bracelet Patterns [3 of 3] This is the last page of the Friendship Bracelet pattern handout I got from Michelle’s. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want pages 1 and 2 I suggest you start HERE and go around in a circle! lol Happy Knotting! Easy Friendship Bracelet Patterns [3 of 3]…
How to Crochet a Ball I am creating several crochet patterns where crocheting a ball will be necessary – dolls, angels, ornaments and so on. Instead of posting the ‘ball’ direction along with all the pictures in each article I’m going to lead everyone to this article. The directions will be included within each article,…
How to make Flip Flops into Slippers – Flip Flop Slippers – Crochet Pattern Thank you to Charlotte for sending me a Crochet Challenge Picture. Charlotte sent me a picture of crochet slippers with flip flop bottoms that she found on flicker and no link to a pattern. The image she sent had a strange…
Mini Scarf Pattern I started making these mini scarves after seeing them on a friends profile. She gave me directions, but they didn’t work for the Harry Potter scarf. Her directions were ‘long ways’ as kids say, I needed to crochet the scarf …. um ‘short ways’ to get the stripes in there. If you’re…
Crochet Snowman Pattern This Snowman Crochet pattern is pretty easy. The Snowman pattern starts with the first 17 rows of ‘How to Crochet a Ball‘ If you need/want nice large pictures to follow along you can go by the first 17 rows of How to Crochet a Ball. I do include pictures in…
How to Get the Yolk Out of Your Easter Egg Every Easter growing up we “blew eggs”. My dad would poke a hole on each end and we kids would blow our brains out trying to get that darn yolk out without busting the egg. I didn’t even know that some people hard boiled…
This is Calendar Pack #2 with months in 3 different fonts. Terms. You can print this out and give it to whoever you like. Print it out for your friends, family, make a calendar from your grandma – whatever. All I ask is that if your friends and family want a copy, you give them…
My step mother was always losing her casserole dishes at community functions. She’d bring a hot dish and without fail the dish would go missing. Permanent marker isn’t so permanent after a wash with Dawn and stickers didn’t even hold up in water. One year I thought – hey, why not put her initials permanently…
I have always wanted to learn to quilt, but never had a machine large enough to join the front and the back of the quilt. Using the Quilt As You Go method you join the front and the back at the same time, then you join the squares. There are many different ways to Quilt…
Another great example of how a simple vacation project takes on a life of its own. Started moving our seedlings into the shoe organizers today. I punched holes in the bottom pockets to feed hump strings to the top for the peas and beans to grow up. Filling the packets from the outsides, hoping to…
Ages ago I saw a knitting needle with a crochet hook at the end of it. I stood in the little shop completely confused. I knew how to knit and crochet, but never the 2 had met! I loved to crochet, but knitting took too darn long – but this! This was different. This was…
This tutorial is for my new friend Erica who just learned to chain, double crochet and slip stitch in an hour this evening. If you have been crocheting for an hour and want to make a simple granny square this will work for you also. Reminder: A Double Crochet is: Yarn over, put the hook…
Please remember that I learn to crochet when I was around 6 years old from a little old lady in our neighborhood who didn’t read the crochet language – she looked at the patterns and just recreated it. For years and years I did the same until I figured out what all the stitches…