Archive for the 'How To's' Category

In which things get Craftastic around here

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I’m away in Albuquerque this week (I’ve perfected the spelling of Albuquerque, BTW). In case you don’t know it, New Mexico is pretty darn close(r) to Nevada (then Seattle). And in case you don’t know it, my BFF currently resides in Nevada. And speaking of my BFF (AKA: May), who is talented [...]

In which I show you how to make a fake mustache necklace using Shrinky-Dinks

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Today we are going to incorporate three four of my favorite things:

“How-To” blog posts
Fake Mustaches (I CAN’T STOP!)
Making my own jewelry
Shrinky-Dinks

That’s right…today I’m going to show you have to make your own fake mustache necklace out of Shrinky-Dink paper. (If you don’t know about Shrinky-Dinks, you are extra super going to love this. [...]

In which I show you, step by step, how to make a purse out of a placemat. For reals.

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Remember how my bestest friend May came to visit from Reno last May? (I should have put more through into her fake interweb name, as “May” causes too much confusion in the month of May. Whatever. It’s too late now.)
Anyway, remember when May came to visit last month? We did lots [...]

In which I show you how to make awesome Mothers Day gifts for cheap

Friday, April 25th, 2008

It’s almost May. Almost May 11th, more specifically. Which means I’ve been thinking a lot lately about two things:

Dude, it sucks to be so broke right now.
What in the hell am I going to buy for our mom’s for Mothers Day (see first bullet)?

When I’ve found myself in this gift-buying predicament before, I [...]

In which I convince you that you can travel the world for cheap

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Back in January I told you how we planned to move into the new house the last weekend in April. This wasn’t because the house was going to be finished in April, but was because we could no longer financially afford to not move into the new house. You may have also [...]

Talk Soup

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Hey everyone! It’s Carrisa guest posting for Isabel today. She’s busy running around Canada the local shopping malls having a great time. So not fair.
So here we are, the day after Thanksgiving. Maybe you are one of those people who has the day off and yet you get up even earlier than usual to do [...]