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April 4, 2013

DIY Craft – Earth Month Printable

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by Rebecca E. Parsons

Here is a printable for you to use in your Earth Month or Earth Day crafting this month. I love to make these tiles to decorate vignettes around my home. I can change them and update them when I like. Enjoy!!!

Print it out and glue it to a 6′ X 6″ tile. Just click on [...]

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Do you ever have a dream project that all the pieces seem to fall into place easily?. This is one of those! It all started when HIMself and I went to town the other day…St. John’s Towne Center in Jacksonville. As we head into the holiday season, I love to browse the shops for ideas [...]

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April 1, 2012

Crafting with Glee is My Way of Life

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by Rebecca E. Parsons

I am always clowning around…it is my witty personality disorder I have embraced. I have also embraced or crafted a crafty life and lifestyle for myself…one that takes great leaps of faith that I can come up with the ideas I need for anything I want to do. So it is…crafting with glee is my [...]

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DIY Holiday Decorating Ideas, Christmas Decor Vignette #11,
Elegantly Sumptuous Luxe 4 Less
Re-Creation of Wooden Stockings from Country Living
I am a consummate DIY re-creator…if I see something I want, but cannot afford or find, I set about making my own version. When I first saw this image of antique wooden sock forms used as a [...]

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November 23, 2011

Spilling Gratitude This Thanksgiving ~ My Gratitude Tree

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by Rebecca E. Parsons

I seem to be spilling gratitude this week…it is my theme for Thanksgiving 2011. I created this Gratitude Tree to count my blessings…
One week ago I was not sure where I would be today…things changed, phone calls came, trucks went to storage…I woke up in my bed in my home this morning!!! and for that [...]

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Tonight upon your pillow
Close your eyes and hide your head
For the fairies and the goblins
Will be hovering ’round your head…
here is my gift to you…
Happy Halloween to all my ghoulish friends…It has been an amazing Halloween season for me with all the #MMSGetCorny and #DontBeTheDarkHouse excitement…I want to thank everyone who made this [...]

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I love to decorate for Halloween, inside and out!!! This year’s outdoor decor became The Haunted Welcome. How do I think of these things? Well, I found some old tree branches with leaves still clinging to them…which started the ideas coming. I would make a haunted welcome forest just the size of children. See my [...]

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DIY Crafting for Halloween – Easy Craft Ideas

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As you know I love to decorate for the season or holiday…or just to have a change! It is that creative ADD I have embraced as part of my personality! Visionary ideas are easy for me…I am a master brainstormer. So Halloween is great fodder for my over-active imagination.
Here are some ideas to spark yours…
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DIY Food ~ Decorating Halloween Cupcakes with Your Kids

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How fun is it to decorate and bake for Halloween? It is also a great time to let your kids imaginations fly creating wickedly yummy sweet treats. Just whip up a batch or two of your favorite cupcake mix or buy some cupcakes at the grocery store if you are time crunched! Provide bowls of [...]

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Halloween Crafting with The Balancing Act – Cute Pumpkin BOO Centerpiece #cBias

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I don’t watch a lot of television…I am too busy blogging! However, there are a few shows I make time for…Designing Spaces, Project Runway, HGTV’s Design Star, most Food Network shows and my early morning coffee/tea time fave:
The Balancing Act on Lifetime
I have watched TBA after my morning walk for a few years now.  What [...]

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DIY Better Homes and Gardens Inspired Wall Art #cBias

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I was in Walmart last night to get some flowers, snacks and magazines to read for inspiration on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I bought the September issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. It was a big issue chock full of ideas, recipes and DIY projects…that’s my kind of magazine!!! I was looking through the [...]

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I {HEART} Martha Stewart Craft Storage Hutch

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I so love this storage idea from Martha Stewart~ The Craft Storage Hutch!!!
You can really keep all your art/craft items neatly organized and out of sight with the Martha Stewart Living™ Craft Storage Hutch. It was designed with us in mind! It fits easily on a countertop or work table to keep essentials [...]

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DIY~Do It Yourself Pottery Barn Knock Offs

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I love sharing some of my favorite DIY~Do It Yourself Pottery Barn Knock Offs by some very clever crafters…
This DIY wall mosiac by Cassidy at Remodelaholic…click photo for tutorial…

I love this DIY Charger made by Carrie of Making Lemonade blog….click photo for tutorial….
This DIY Faux Mercury Glass Cake Stand was made by Craft Jr….click photo [...]

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Ghosts of Furniture Past™ Before & After Thrift Store Creations

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Ghosts of Furniture Past ™
a new feature here on C8C…featuring furniture updates, redo’s, repurposing…it will be a website of its own very soon!!! I own it.
For the past few weeks I have been doing a complete restoration (as close as I can get it) of a Marsh Hoosier cabinet. This is what a Marsh Hoosier [...]

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