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Upcycle Your Reusable Bags To Celebrate Earth Day

Do you ever get reusable bags from places that you really don’t care too much about or aren’t really in love with the bag’s words and decorations.  I decided it would be fun to upcycle them and make...

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Making A Doll Size Art Portfolio from a Q-Tip Container

This week I am so very excited about being the sponsor for Camp Doll Diaries. Pin It I decided that Saige, our newest American Girl Doll, would benefit from having a portfolio to keep track of her...

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Repurposed Note Cards From Expressionery – FABULOUS DIY PROJECTS

Recently I got fun mail from Expressionery, my first and favorite licensee!  They sent me a box of new stationery using my daisy designs (note cards, flat notes and round labels)!  I accidentally bent...

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The Purple Chair

I have an old table with six chairs.  It is the table that was in my family’s kitchen when I was growing up…a very long time ago.  Needless to say, it is need of a little love.  I tested out … Continue...

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Ooh La La , It’s A Little Salvaged Mambo Pink Table

I love when I can save a wooden piece of furniture from a life of despair in the dump!  This little table just needed some love and to be Mambo Pinkified with Krylon spray paint. Pin It I cleaned it …...

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My PINK Door Desktop

Pin It When we moved away from Iowa, I had a couple of really old doors with the super cool keyholes in them.  I was saving them for the day to come when I could turn them into something magnificent. …...

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Mini Friendship Notebooks

With the launch of the new #LaurasAreCool website, I created this little tokens of friendship to send to the other five Lauras who are joining me on this adventure.  I think they came out super cute...

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Upcycled Jar Fairy Lantern With Ribbons

This month’s crafty challenge with the DCC (Designer Crafts Connection, a group of professional international designers/bloggers) was to use ribbon from Offray to create something fabulous!  How...

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Recycled Magazine Collage Journals

We have such a crazy collection of magazines going in our home.  I can’t seem to throw them away because they are filled with so much possibility.  Here is a way to create recycled magazine collage...

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How To Create an Upcycled Jar Gift for Earth Day

I love Earth Day!  It is one of the days that I loved most when I was teaching elementary school.  I think it is a great day to spread love and growth through gift giving, the recycled creative kind of...

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Repurposed Note Cards From Expressionery – FABULOUS DIY PROJECTS

Recently I got fun mail from Expressionery, my first and favorite licensee!  They sent me a box of new stationery using my daisy designs (note cards, flat notes and round labels)!  I accidentally bent...

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The Purple Chair

I have an old table with six chairs.  It is the table that was in my family’s kitchen when I was growing up…a very long time ago.  Needless to say, it is need of a little love.  I tested out chair...

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Ooh La La , It’s A Little Salvaged Mambo Pink Table

I love when I can save a wooden piece of furniture from a life of despair in the dump!  This little table just needed some love and to be Mambo Pinkified with Krylon spray paint. I cleaned it up and...

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My PINK Door Desktop

When we moved away from Iowa, I had a couple of really old doors with the super cool keyholes in them.  I was saving them for the day to come when I could turn them into something magnificent....

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Mini Friendship Notebooks

With the launch of the new #LaurasAreCool website, I created this little tokens of friendship to send to the other five Lauras who are joining me on this adventure.  I think they came out super cute...

View Article


Upcycled Jar Fairy Lantern With Ribbons

This month’s crafty challenge with the DCC (Designer Crafts Connection, a group of professional international designers/bloggers) was to use ribbon from Offray to create something fabulous!  How...

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Recycled Magazine Collage Journals

We have such a crazy collection of magazines going in our home.  I can’t seem to throw them away because they are filled with so much possibility.  Here is a way to create recycled magazine collage...

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Upcycled Flour Sack Towel with Fork It Over Fabric

My friend Laura Bray is not only super kind and sweet but amazingly talented too.  She does a lot of the same things that I do.  She is a mom.  She is a wife.  She is a friend.  She designs, creates...

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Upcycled Patriotic Flower Shirt

Memorial Day Weekend…yippeee!!!!  It is that time of year, the red…white…and blue time that is.  Memorial Day is quickly followed by the Fourth of July!  Here is a quick and easy way to up-cycle an old...

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Recycled Sketch Pad Cover Writing Mat

NOOOOOOO!  Who threw this away.  Don’t these kiddos know that the bestest most awesomest chipboard ever is the backing from these sketch pads?  This is the perfect size for a recycled sketch pad cover...

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