Over the past few months, it seems like I’ve run across so many cool folded paper-type projects that I finally had to try my hand at some and see how they turned out.  Inspiration - and yes, instructions - came from a few places, among them, these gorgeous creatures on Etsy:
Apartment Therapy’s re-nest.com had a [...]

Spring is in the air,  Easter is just around the corner and the daffodils have started blooming in the yard.  Aside from loving to use my vintage um-buh-rella on rainy days, my favorite thing about this time of year has to be the Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest!
The first year “Reservoir Peeps” won my heart.  [...]

I’m a hands-on kind of girl and I know my way around some power tools, so I’m a much greater fan of exploring the ways that creativity can transform an already existing object into a completely different one, than I am of staring at a blank sketchbook, waiting for an idea to hit me upside [...]

If you know me, you know how much I love finding a new life for cast-offs, or refusing to let something be thrown away until any notion of utility really is non-existent. Given that, is it any wonder I’d want to start scouring the curbside trash piles for legs (the furniture kind, not the [...]

I’ve had the link to Ponoko in my email for a little over a month, but haven’t really taken the time to explore it…until yesterday.  Then, of course, it sucked up a good 4 hours while I tooled around the site poking into its utilities, how-to guides and - most fun! - what other users [...]