Crafting and creating is even more fun when items are at our finger tips.
If you need help organizing your craft supplies, look no further. This craft room was organized by a creating genius for order and inspiration.
Organize your craft room for ultimate inspiration. Whether it be quilting, painting, jewelry or costumes, you’ll find easy and affordable organization that you’ll want to show off.
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Foam Board Fabric Organizers
These organizing game changers are inexpensive and versatile. Dollar store foam board turned fabric organizer. Cut with a ruler and exacto knife to the size that fits your needs.
Notice how there are taller boards in the back to store large pieces of fabric and shorter boards in the front. This helps make use of a deep shelf and still be able to see what you have.
And of course the fabric is color coded, because it would be wrong any other way. 😉
Easy Accent Wall Shelving from Ikea
The shelving units fit perfectly and when you aren’t looking for the perfect piece for your next quilting project, the shelves make a cozy accent wall to your creative space.
Baby Food Containers, Perfect for Organizers
Baby food containers, collect these for easy, see through storage. Perfect for small beads, buttons etc. You’ll find these shallow drawers from Ikea. No more digging to get creating – it’s literally at your finger tips
Whether you’ve got a baby at home or have a friend at the baby food stage, there is someone in your life that has an over abundance of these. The shallow drawers from Ikea make it easy to quickly find what you need. Here are some other great ideas for using baby food containers.
Lunch Meat Container Storage
Deli meat containers in varrying sizes, with the same width, keep larger items in easy reach. The see through sides and labels are genius time savers. If you find you are always buying a certain product, consider saving the container for storage. They’ll match and stack easier. And you’ll be saving our little Earth with thrifty, cute, reusable organizers.
Each container is “filed” in a metal filing cabinet that was painted light pink. Making it easy to find what you’re looking for.
Organizing Shelves Door Storage Ideas: Wire Basket Catch All
One secret about having everything at your finger tips is using every bit of your craft room space. Transform your closet door into a thread storage shelf, scissors and Cricut supplies, or a gift wrapping station. There are so many options, what would you do with that extra space?
Organize craft supplies. Wire shelfing that can attach easily to doors can be found on Amazon.
Use Command Hooks for Affordable Craft Room Organization
There are endless ways to use Command Hooks in organizing your craft room and the best part? They’re insanely affordable and easy to move. Find a great selection to choose from here.
Cheese Puff Bin Storage
Again, if you like a product, hold onto the containers. Cheese Puff containers can hold a lot. If the material is light you can easily store above head and still use space in harder to reach areas
Hard to Store Quilting Frame Made Easy
Quilting frame too tall for the closet? Improvise. If you’re quilting rack seems to take up precious space, get creative. Here a small hole was cut in the closet ceiling to allow the quilting frame to stand upright and save more space
Craft Room Ideas: Beautify Your Creative Space
If you spend much of your time crafting, why not make it cute with a collection of dress stands. Keep an eye out at yard sales to perfect your collection. They can also be easily found online.
Add a fancy chandelier with an artistic flaire, this style was found at Costco or search for some fun ideas online.
Happy crafting! I hope you found some great take home ideas that will help you organize your craftroom. Comment below on your favorite organizing tips.
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I think it’s safe to admit, we’re all a bit done with coronavirus. Because COVID-19 is the worst! So if you find yourself needing a little outlet or to un-rationally smash something, I’ve got just the thing.
Make something to smash, a Coronavirus Piñata! It’s easy, satisfying and perfect for gatherings 6′ away. USA Today could easily add this to their list of 100 things to do while home during COVID-19. Best yet, all items are easily found at home for this paper mache creation.
Materials Needed to Make a Coronavirus Piñata
You will need a balloon, a large bowl the diameter of desired coronavirus circumference, a small cereal bowl for flour and water mixture and newspaper (cut into 2″ strips).
Blow up the balloon until it fits the top rim of your large bowl. Mix equal parts water and flour, about a cup each, in the cereal bowl. Adjust amounts to get a glue-like, paste substance. Dip newspaper strips into flour mixture, wipe most off with your fingers and apply to the balloon.
Continue applying strips of newspaper dipped in mixture in a cross like pattern to create strength, until you have added 4-5 layers.
To create the spiky look we simply took a quarter of a newspaper page, dipped it in the flour mixture and then molded it into kind of a table shape. Then we stuck it onto the ball in a random pattern. My kids, ages 6-12 years, had fun helping make this. Especially since they were looking forward to destroying it later.
How to Create the Piñata Hanger
Cut a small incision in the top, stuff the piñata full of candy and/or toys and insert a hanging system of some sort. I literally took a metal hanger in a “V” shape and placed it inside. Then duct taped the wire on the inside of the piñata as well as the outside of the piñata.
Let your kids paint it, it’s ok if it’s ugly, that’s what it is and we’re going to smash it right?
Let the kids wack it, kick it, smash it and take out all that angst on the coronavirus. It’s therapy really 😉
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A living wreath is easy to make and keep alive once you know all the tricks. In this post you will learn how to make an inexpensive wreath that looks like a million bucks – figuratively right? I mean a million bucks? Who would sounds that much?
Usually a premade succulent frame will cost you about $30. Here you’ll see how to make one for $6.50 by making a wreath form from dollar tree supplies.
Shopping List for a Summer Succulent Wreath
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The package of sphagnum moss is $13, but will do about 4 wreaths. The floral pins package will do anywhere from 5-10 wreaths.
1. Making the Dollar Tree Spring Wreath
Use the floral wire to connect each joint of the two wreaths together. Make sure you fold the ends of the wire pointing inside the form to avoid being poked later.
Next, zig zag the wire on the inside of the wreath where you have the largest opening. You can wire the bottom and sides as well, but leave the top two rows open for succulents.
2. Putting Sphagnum Moss in the Frame
Sphagnum moss is important because it holds the succulents in the moss and frame. This special moss also absorbs and holds a lot of water.
Soak the moss in a bucket of water. Then squeeze out the excess water. Be careful for pokey items. The company does a good job preparing the moss, but sometimes there are small sticks. Squeeze with care. ☺️
Press the moss into the wire wreath form. You want the moss to be thin and compact so you can’t see light through the bottom and sides when you lift it up.
Leave as much room as possible (by making it compact) that you have room for succulent roots and soil. Imagine you are making a nest. You need it to be strong, but you also need it to be wide enough to hold plants.
3. Assembling Succulents in Moss
Keep as much soil as you can around your succulent roots. Press the roots and soil into the succulent form.
Use floral pins to hold your succulents in the wreath.
Next press more sphagnum moss into the wreath form, covering any exposed soil. This will help hold your succulents in place and help hold in moisture for your plants.
If desired, you may also want to wrap your wreath, moss and succulents with twine. Be careful to go around plants and only touch the moss. This can help further hold the moss and plants in place while they establish themselves in the wreath.
Once the root system is strong they will hold themselves in the wreath. You may wonder how long do succulent wreaths last?
A succulent wreath can last up to 5 years. It will change over time. As it gets over grown you can trim back the succulents and use the succulent starts for more wreaths.
Succulent Wreath Maintenance
If you would like to place your succulent wreath on the door avoid South facing doors as the sun will be too hot. Also if you have a wooden door, place plastic behind the wreath to protect the wood finish.
How to Care For Your Succulent Wreath
After planting, keep the wreath out of direct sunlight for a week. Gradually increase light levels to full exposure.
For hot zones protect plants from midday sun. Indoors set your wreath in a south-facing window, greenhouse or garden room.
Hang your wreath using galvanized hardware to avoid rust.
If you’ll be displaying your wreath on a wooden surface (such as a door) consider covering the back of your wreath with plastic, using floral pins.
Water your succulent wreath when it feels dry, every 3-10 weeks depending on temperature and lighting.
Soak the wreath in a container of water for at least an hour.
Avoid misting the surface with water as this encourages shallow roots and effects the health of the plant. Enjoy your living wreath!
One last dollar store tip: for easy watering purchase a round dollar store serving tray. It fits the dollar store wire wreath forms perfectly. Place your wreath on the tray. Fill the tray with water until the wreath won’t soak up any more water. Let the wreath dry out a bit, then hang back up.
My love of pancakes runs deep. If you’ve followed my other posts you know I love breakfast food, and apparently pancakes of all nationalities. I’ll just keep adding to the total.
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Ebelskiver Recipes
The recipe for Ebelskivers traditionally comes in two ways, those made with baking powder and those made with yeast.I’ve used a variety of recipes. Recently I tried this recipe a baking powder version from seriouseats.Com. I loved their whole site from recipes to techniques to the best cooking products to use. I’m not even being paid to say that 😊. But check it out, I think you’ll like what you see.The yeast Ebelskivers recipe is a little harder to set the batter, but you get a slightly higher rise in your pancake.
The Dutch pronounce æbleskiver as [ˈɛːpləˌskiːwɐ], the English language spelling is usually aebleskiver or ebelskiver (ee ble skeever). My daughter pronounces it evil skier – just because 😂.
The word æbleskiver literally means Apple slice, though there are no apples in Ebelskivers. I’m guessing it’s because it’s round like an apple. There’s my two cents.
Aebleskiver History
A fun little pancake, æbleskiver are solid like a pancake but light and fluffy like a popover.They are served often rolled in powdered sugar, with whipped topping, butter, maple syrup or fruit preserves. Usually as a set of three. Which I totally didn’t do, I filled that bowl right up!
As the story goes, a band vikings had gone to battle. After being hard hit and needing to regain their strength they retreated to eat and rest. Not having proper cooking wear they turned their hammered helmets upside down and cooked batter over a fire.
So the story goes.
They’re often served during the holidays as a special treat and for good reason, they are a bit time consuming, but delicious. To learn more, visit aebleskiver.com and Wikipedia.
The Best Aebleskiver Pan
Or ebelskivers pan (as the English would say). The best pan? Hands down cast iron. It’s heavy and distributes the heat evenly for a perfect crisp outside. The cast iron also provides a natural stick-resistant surface.
The first Ebelskiver pans going back 300 years ago, were made out of hammered copper. They didn’t cook as evenly, but are probably beautiful. So if you see one snatch it up because it’s rare and old.
The next best and more common, is the aluminum with non stick coating. I still have to coat quickly with a stick of butter for my Ebelskivers to turn easily.
As you can see this pan works well with gas stove tops. The key is to keep it cooking on medium – low. Otherwise it cooks too quickly to be able to turn and get a nice round, ball shaped pancake.
How to Cook Ebelskivers
One of my favorite experiences was to have the opportunity to watch my friend’s Danish grandma turning these little pancakes.There are a few tricks to the trade (which I am still perfecting), but this is seriously so fun I don’t mind.
First you need the ebelskiver pan, which has a set of 7 half spheres set in a circle.
I’ve found that my cookie dough scoop is the perfect size to fill each space. Almost to the top, but not overflowing.
A bamboo skewer or stick of some sort with a sharp end is the best for turning. My son helped take a few of these pictures where it required two hands for cooking – some are a bit blurry so I apologize.
You want to begin turning immediately after pouring the batter. The idea is to use the skewer to pull the cooked batter half way up to let the liquid batter run down into the pan.
Continue to pull the cooked portion up and let the liquid batter run down. Moving and turning the pancake until you finally turn it completely over and ends with a ball shaped pancake.
They aren’t all spherical, but I’m getting there. 😉 I don’t make these as an every day food, but they are fun to make and the kids get excited when I suggest them.
Non-Traditional Ebelskiver Toppings
I do like traditional Ebelskivers, but sometimes it’s fun to mix it up. My children love Nutella on top. I love Greek yogurt and honey. It also taste good with peanut butter and jam.
For more breakfast pancake ideas (because apparently that’s one of my favorite things to eat) also check out my healthy-kids-love-it Blueberry Blender Pancakes and
When we bought our house it had been a rental which was bad in the aspect that we had alot of things to fix up, but really good in that we got the house for a killer deal.
The front yard had beenprofessionally landscaped, which was great. However many of the trees and shrubs had overgrown and killed lawn or taken over several feet of pavement.
I really didn’t like that you could see the downspout drain pipe from the front. There was also a vast space of nothing right by the front walk way.
And though I wanted to do this project along with 100 others right away, I knew I had to pace myself.
There were several projects we had to do first out of necessity. You can read more about that from my DIY tab. Some of my favorites, some easy, some labor intensive, each made a dramatic difference to the enjoyment of our home.
Finally it’s time for the dry creek bed pictures, how-to maintenance and all I’ve learned in making it the best.
How to Make a Dry Creek Bed For Drainage
One of the primary reasons for wanting to DIY a dry creek bed was for drainage. I wanted like nothing else to get rid of that big black drain tube.
What I found is the dry creek bed works amazing as a drainage canal for downspouts.
There are a few specific things that will help your dry creek bed work well to drain excess water.
Dry Creek Bed Cost and Materials
To keep the costs low and because I had them on hand. These are the materials I used for a 10 foot stretch.
3 Heavy duty plastic landscape bags
15 Large boulders football sized plus
30 Small boulders fist sized or less
2 bags River rock /pea gravel
First dig a canal in the ground. Make sure it is sloping away from your foundation. I used a level to make sure it was tilting as far as I wanted.
Then lay down the landscape bags. As seen in the picture I started the bag 6 inches up the side of the foundation and held it in place with rocks.
With each new bag I made sure it overlapped by 6 inches with the new bag going underneath the previous bag.
Each bag also had a 1′ to a 1 1/2′ of space on either side of the canal. Here I made sure to push back the landscape rock. Place large, then small boulders and then put the landscape rock back around to cover the plastic.
At the downspout I had a pile of rocks to help hide the plastic and to lead the water away from the house and down the canal.
How to Keep River Rock in Place on a Slope
After the first rain storm I found I had a problem. The water would rush out from the drain pipe so quickly that it would wash away all my river rock as well.
I actually went and studied the river by my house – I’m pretty committed to this dry creek bed by now.
I noticed two things. A natural river has most of its large boulders on the outside edge, followed by smaller boulders and then river rock. A natural river curves and winds and that is where it slows down.
To create this natural slowing process I had to put rocks sticking out into the “river.” It was difficult, because my brain kept saying it should be uniform, but nature is not uniform and looks better with curves and displaced rocks anyhow.
As you can see in the picture below the rocks slow the water enough that even the tree seeds gather and don’t wash all the way down, but the water still moves away from the house.
I strategically placed one rock on one side and then a foot later a rock on the other side so it would hit a rock, show down, hit another rock and slow down more.
I no longer have river rock washing away.
With a view of the whole creek you can also see that I only did two major rocks, strategically placed to slow the water flow.
The rest of the creek curves a bit for aesthetic and water control purposes.
Dry Creek Bed Landscape Plants
When the landscape was originally planned there was no water run to this section. It gets too dry for regular plants to grow, so I tried native plants, as you can kind of see in this picture.
They all died, probably because of my limited plant knowledge.
I tried again with Chick and Hen Succulents and they thrived. First off succulents love rocky terrain for their little roots to wrap around. They also do great with large amounts of water during rainy season. The thick leaves allow them to store up water for dry spells.
Watch your succulents. If the leaves start to get thin, give them a good long drink of water. I have found they can go several weeks in hot dry weather before needing water.
Keep in mind, not all succulents can survive outside in all growing zones. We are zone 5b-7a. I have also successfully grown these in zone 4 where it got pretty cold for 6 months. Check for the particular succulent you are looking to plant before you put it permanently outside.
Depending on your rain fall, hostas would also do well near a dry creek bed. Keep in mind that they like a moderate amount of water and do well in shade.
Dry Creek Bed Maintenance
Once you’ve got the water flow under control and plants that grow well there is not alot of maintenance.
A few times a year I use a leaf blower to blow away any trees seeds, leaves and plant residue.
Every so often I adjust a rock or redistribute river rock that has fallen. In general its a nice, low maintenance landscaping.
It’s added interest to our yard. Provided an attractive way to move rain water away from our house and acts as an occasional balancing exercise for our children. 😊
The Succulents have taken off and at they grow will also help hold the smaller rocks in place.
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Hi, I’m Natalie. I’m a mother of four, an artist, and a DIYer that loves to reuse, recycle, and refurbish. I like power tools and teaching others how to save money while improving their home.
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