crafts – Gracious Rain

June 15, 2026June 15, 2026

Kid’s Market

These adorable kiddos had a booth at the Orem Kid’s Market this year. The idea is that everything here is suppose to be made by kids and sold by kids.

I think they did an incredible job!

Honestly–how could you possibly NOT buy stuff from these little cuties?

I wasn’t able to be there in person, but Jillian kindly gave me a virtual tour so that I could make snatch what I wanted remotely. As you can see from all my loot at the bottom–I made out like a bandit!!

It was a great cause and for wonderful kids– that I adore.

You know what I always say–

“ANYthing for you, my darlings!!”

March 25, 2015March 25, 2015

Painting With Flowers~

Never heard of such a thing, but oh, my–it makes sense. Where do colors come from in the first place, hmmm?

Painting with flowers, and loving every second.

Natural Mother Magazine fabulous find. Go there.

July 12, 2013August 1, 2026

Rapunzel Repurposed

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Miss Chompy made a tower out of the kid’s ancient Duplo Blocks and put a happy little lady inside. She thought about it for a few minutes and said, “Hey, she’s like Rapunzel…only with not good hair.”

Hmmmm….let me just put on my Crafty-Grammy cap, I thought. So I cut a long strip from a plastic grocery bag…tied a few knots…

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and snapped it in just below Rapunzel’s window, in the back.

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Next, Chompy stuffed all that “hair” into the room with the girlie…

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and…POOF!!

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Instant. Repurposed. Princess.

Grammy of the year award…

in…the…bag.

June 11, 2013July 29, 2026

Color Me Mine

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On a whim, we gathered together the moms and dads and kiddos for an evening at the pottery paint shop known as “Color Me Mine.” Perhaps you’ve heard of it. It was my first time and I’ll admit, when I made the reservations–or “booked the studio time” as they say, I was a bit nervous to tell them, first, how big our group was, and second that we had a few kids and a baby. Turned out that they didn’t bat an eye. In fact, the gal said, “Bring ’em. They’ll love it.” And love it they did.

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First, we got to choose our piece, be it bowl, mug, bunny or pirate skull–there was something to make everybody happy.

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Next we choose our glaze pallets…

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from the millions that they had to offer.

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Of course, I was looking for my very own pink and purple. Shockeroo, huh?

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Then we grabbed a couple of brushes and set off…

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To our own little private room.

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There was seriously no rush whatsoever.

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We just took our time…

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and focused…

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and worked…

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and concentrated…

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and personalized…

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until…

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at last, we couldn’t find another bare spot of clay.

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Then, and only then, did we know we were finished.

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We turned our masterpieces in to the nice lady behind the counter. She put them all on a tray and told me I could come back and get them on Saturday.

So that’s what we did.

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Just hanging out creating cool, very, very much us kind of stuff.

Perfect.

Stay tuned for the fired and finished results of our pottery paint fest…it was dang cool.

December 24, 2012October 16, 2022

Lovely Button Tree

I love Christmas trees and I love ribbon and I love buttons–so what better way to spend the afternoon than to make a sweet little button tree. It was terrifically quick and easy and…well, beautiful, if I do say so myself.

I’ve been saving the cardboard cone from my cotton yarn but a styrofoam cone would work great too. I put a couple of lines of glue stick up the sides…

and wound green yarn up the whole length of the cone. Now it looks like a tree and it won’t matter so much if there are spaces between some of the buttons here and there.

Now the scary part. You know that glue guns and I are mortal enemies, so it was a huge stretch to even consider doing this project. But I’ve been saving green and gold buttons for centuries–just for this project, so the flame thrower glue gun from Hades was just not going to stop me. Burn me, yes. Stop me, no. 😕

It worked best for me to put the glue on the yarn and stick the buttons on. If I had tried to put the glue on the buttons instead…well, I saw the emergency room in my immediate future with that technique. This way worked better. Word of caution though–be very careful when pushing the buttons on that have those little holes. The evil hot glue will come right out those holes and try to kill you. I know this so beware.