Easter Eggs with DIY Natural Dyes

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Easter Eggs with DIY Natural Dyes

  This weekend, I, along with my trusty assistant, Bella Boo, experimented with dying eggs using natural dyes—ie: natural food items I had around the house. I did a little bit of reading which confirmed that it was possible and then jumped in head-first without really knowing what I was doing. From looking through my refrigerator and cupboards, I found two types of natural ingredients that I could use to create the dyes: juices/drinks and spices. These are the items I came up with: frozen…Continue Reading “Easter Eggs with DIY Natural Dyes” →

For the Love of Type

Categories DIY, Tips & Tricks
For the Love of Type

Today, I want to celebrate typography. Here are two interesting DIY ways to use type and two ways to identify type. If you are good with type, stamps can be an inexpensive DIY way to have organic, professional-looking letterhead and envelopes, or personalized cards. You can create affordable custom stamps for your text of choice or your logo at BesottedBrand‘s Etsy store. (I love her examples!) Then purchase high quality blank stationery and stamp away! You can also create “property of…” stamps for your books and fun…Continue Reading “For the Love of Type” →

Easy Creative Gifts: Subscription Boxes

Categories DIY, Gifts
Easy Creative Gifts: Subscription Boxes

Found a great idea for gift gifting today that I had to share with you. I have seen food boxes and beauty boxes, but these are even better in my opinion. These boxes make great gifts for someone who’s hard to buy for or even a special treat for yourself! OliveBox is a subscription box for people who love all things paper, love getting something in the mail, and love surprises! They have monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and annual subscriptions. Grace Kang of OliveBox, describes it…Continue Reading “Easy Creative Gifts: Subscription Boxes” →