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Last minute Father's Day gifts you can make
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Two easy ways to prepare rhubarb
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Inspiration
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Crafter Q+A: Andrea Sabean of Artisan in the Woods
Name: Andrea Sabean Location: Quispamsis, New Brunswick Title: Owner and Artisan at Artisan in the Woods Website: www.artisaninthewoods.com Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/artisaninthewoods Facebok: https://www.facebook.com/artisaninthewoods Twitter: @NaturalArtisan How did you get into crafting? I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t crafting! Both my grandmother and my mother were avid crafters so there was always something creative going on in the house. It started with paper [...]
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Crafter Q&A: Denise Wild of The Sewing Studio
Who: Denise Wild, sewing expert and founder of LoveSewing.com and The Sewing Studio How did you get started? I began sewing when I was 13 and I loved it right away. I had previously learned how to sew in home economics, but it wasn’t until someone worked with me on a button-down shirt over the summer that I [...]
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Feature craft: Make a bookshelf into a desk
Did you go out and buy new furniture made just for kids? Or did you re-purpose what you already had? Here’s a few fun furniture ideas for kid’s desks. Plus, read on for a D.I.Y. project by one reader who made her bookshelf into a desk for her daughter! But first, here’s a few of [...]
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Feature craft: Kid’s bedroom ideas
Buying decor for your kid’s bedroom can be pricey — and if they’re really little, they’ll also quickly outgrow your zoo animal wallpaper or teddy bear mobile. D.I.Y. is a fun way to personalize your little one’s bedroom and it gives you the option to customize the design exactly the way you like it without [...]
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Calling all crafters!
Hello lovely readers, I’m the new web editor for style, home and crafts and I want to hear from you. Where do you go for craft inspiration? Who are your favourite Canadian craft or D.I.Y. bloggers? Are you a crafter who would like to be featured on Canadianliving.com? Are you into D.I.Y. decorations? Source: media-cache1.pinterest.com via Maia [...]
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3 ways to make Valentine’s Day cards pop
Hi! I’m one of the web editors here at Canadian Living and I just wanted to pop in and share three things that have inspired me this Valentine’s Day to tackle handmade cards. Tomorrow, so I’ll pop in later to show you how it went. I found this step-by-step arrow cutout on Pinterest. Even the [...]
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Weekend reading
Happy First Weekend of 2013! I’m going to take advantage of the first weekend in a while that isn’t overscheduled with family time or feasting (not that I can complain about either!) and play with some of the crafty toys I got for Christmas. The most exciting one is a Singer 14CG754C ProFinish Serger, which [...]
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Links for your crafty me time
Now that we’ve finished all of our crafting for others, we’ve got a little time for ourselves. Here’s what we’re reading, looking at, being inspired by and planning to make in these fun days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. We hope you also get a chance to do something selfishly crafty (or at least [...]
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Last-minute handmade gift ideas: how to do a lot in a little time
I’m in that pre-Christmas crafting phase where I’m alternately horrified by how soon the holiday is (only thirteen days away?!) and completely relaxed, because as a chronic up-til-2am-on-Christmas-Eve gift knitter, thirteen days seems TONS of time! (It’s possible the latter attitude is what gets me into trouble on Dec. 24th in the first place, but [...]
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A crafty Christmas wishlist
‘Tis the season for gift guides – but here at the craft blog, we’re taking the opposite approach. Today and for the next two Mondays, we’re going to be talking about our crafty Christmas wishlists. (After all: if part of the pleasure of Christmas is in making things for other people, surely the other part [...]
