Home Sweet Homemaker

Here is an album I made for my husband’s grandfather for Christmas 2007 using Shutterfly. It was fairly quick even for a perfectionist, and easy to do using their templates. Shutterfly allows users to post projects in personal galleries, which is a fun way to share albums with others as well as creative ideas. As [...]

Recently at book club, we were talking about the latest trend of creating photo books online. Before scrapbooking was popular and all the cool tools came out, I would cut out photos, draw creative lettering with colored pencils, and use plain old tape to attach photos. Needless to say, the scrapbooks eventually fell apart. That [...]

This is a topiary I created for a chocolate-themed event our women’s ministry sponsors every year. I got the idea from Hersheys.com. All I really did differently was in the details. I spray painted the terracotta pot and the rod of the topiary form gold. I used gold wired ribbon for a bow directly underneath [...]

I can’t quilt and here’s why. It’s the same reason why I never got past basic chords on the guitar. My discipline does not match my desire. Take this example from HGTV. This quilt, in my opinion, is absolutely exquisite. It’s art. And I would want my quilt to be art! I wouldn’t want to [...]

Whether it’s writing a song, making a scrapbook page or participating in any other form of creativity, I have always needed some way to express myself. Unfortunately, I’ve also always been a dabbler. You know I’ll take up knitting, then jump over to scrapbooking, then play the guitar for a little while. That would be [...]