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more button, tissue paper, and crepe flowers for mother’s day! : links

We’ve had so much fun making tissue paper flowers over the past few days that we’ve been looking for something to fill our bouquet out a bit!
Plum Pudding came up with a super-creative idea for some gorgeous button and cardboard flowers.
One More Moore has a nice tutorial for making a bouquet of simple button flowers [...]

May Day!

As a kid I always looked forward to celebrating the first of May with may baskets. My mom and I would make a simple cone by rolling up a sheet of paper, staple on a little handle, then fill it with lilacs (oh how I love lilacs!) or whatever sweet spring blossoms we could [...]

Stamping with potatoes and cookie cutters: craft project

My previously underappreciated husband just got back from a ten-day business trip (and not a moment too soon!), but while he was gone we really tried to keep ourselves busy. Yesterday’s project was to use up some shriveled, sprouty potatoes I magically discovered under the sink. I remembered cutting stamps out of potatoes [...]