Journal/Blog

Recipe: Valentine's Day Red Heart Pasta
Looking for a fun Valentine’s Day meal? You can use a roasted beet to organically dye your pasta pink/ red! I used my standard homemade pasta 🍝 recipe (see the full recipe in my journal here 📓) &...
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Floral Diary: Stainless Steel Flower Frogs & DIY Flower Frog Vase
Hello friends! I recently discovered stainless steel flower frog pins and had to share! What are they? A flower frog is basically a weighted base with lots of tiny stainless steel "pins" on top. Y...
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DIY: Embroidered Champagne Cocktail Napkins
After posting my own hand-embroidered cocktail napkins last week, I received quite a few requests for a more detailed how-to! So, I decided that it would be fun to teach you how to embroider a cha...
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Why Crafting Will Save the World
We live in a time when the world is at our fingertips...both literally and figuratively. (Almost) Any item you desire can be searched for and purchased within minutes, delivered within 2 days. Scro...
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Floral Diary: How to Reflex Tulips
Reflexing tulips is a fun way to elevate any tulip. And it is so easy! To reflex a tulip, all you need to do is gently peel back and bend each petal outwards. Start with the outer petals and work ...
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Behind the Scenes: DIY Table Runner & Napkins with Fewer and Better Blog
When my friend Sarah from the Fewer and Better Blog reached about me do a tutorial on how to sew a table runner and matching napkins, I couldn't have been more excited! I love sharing any tips &...
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Recipe: Heart Shaped Pasta and Raviolis
Last weekend, Coralea and I spent the morning cooking up some new pasta recipes! With Valentine's Day right around the corner, we decided to try our hand(s) at heart shaped ravioli! After a little ...
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Floral Diary: DIY Winter Wedding Bouquet
Third times the charm my friends! Bryan and I had a simple courthouse wedding at City Hall in December, witnessed by my sister Coralea. There was something so powerful about hearing the vows in Eng...
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Floral Diary: DIY Christmas Mantel
Christmas mantels! Where the magic begins for a child...stockings are hung and Santa arrives! Since I do not currently have any mantel places of my own, I decided to decorate one of my parents. A ...
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