Join Salem Creative Mamas
Seeking some creative souls who love to explore new crafts and techniques and who are willing to share their ideas. Some of the things I can teach include screen printing, collage, beading, altered books, soldered pendants, graphic design, and painting. If you like to laugh, have a kind spirit and are driven by the need ...
A House Full of Music
Okay, the title of this blog is a bit misleading. It’s actually a house full of musical confusion with various notes getting pounded out by Little Man, but there is hope for us. We scored a great deal on a piano from craigslist. It came with free delivery and tuning so hubby and I were ...
Trash to Treasure
Trash Here’s a new project that was so simple. We got a new piano and needed to recover the bench. On it was some pretty nasty brown and white vinyl. I got out my screwdriver, and took the seat off the hinges. Then I took out the nails that held the vinyl on. I had ...
Bush Park Photos
Little man and I visited the park to get some photos for the upcoming newsletter for SCAN (our neighborhood association). I can’t wait till the trees put on leaves and all the flowers are in bloom.
Little Swimmers
Little Missy is taking lessons at the Y this week. Poor girl was in tears yesterday after a series of times gulping down and breathing in the unwanted water. It’s so darn hard to teach your kiddos to release their fear of water. So after a soothing “Not So Hot” from Dutch Brothers, we went ...
From Trash to Treasure
Trash Treasure I have problems throwing things away. I’m a bit of a hoarder and all you crafty people out there can probably understand why. I do end up using the things that I have (if I can find them). I heard the six-month rule before. It goes something along the lines of “if you ...
Stuffed Birds
Spool Sewing has an adorable bird pattern available for free download. Check it out! I made some cute birds of my own to dress up my front porch (or should I say perch? Ha, that joke is for you Mom!). Anyway, I had some left over branches that keep breaking off from the wacky tree ...
Screenprinting
After a series of failed attempts to develop a good image for screen printing, I finally figured it out. Ta-Dah!
Toaster Deconstruction
The kids had a blast taking apart the toaster. Love my sweet little elves!
