These are the best Arts and Crafts Movement places in Britain. From Arts and Crafts houses in the UK to museums with the furniture and art, it's all here.
Booklet no. 114.
In her book, Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard takes her readers on a journey through the garden design of this important decorative era.
cereal box boat - fun to make and experiment with paper mache
How to be a craft teacher in your community. How to get started teaching craft classes - what you need to plan, organize, and make happen before you teach your first class.
I've had my DreamBox and Sew Station for over 6 months now, so I thought it would be a great time to update my reviews of both pieces and let you know how I'm feeling
I never imaged I’d be in or have something of mine featured in a magazine…but it’s happening! Faerie Magazine found my wee blog and has featured my Druid Lantern Tutorial in thei…
Hack the Ikea Kallax shelf to build a worktable with a huge surface for all crafters. Organization is a never ending topic for home owners, no matter your home is big or small. Today I am going to share an easy tutorial to use the cheap, versatile unit that can bring an effortless sense of cool to any […]
We see the question, “How do you store your printed patterns?” all the time in the P4P FB Group! So, as we’re celebrating hitting 30k members in the group with our “Sew it, Win it, Build it” Giveaway we’re hoping to answer that question today! We’ve been discussing all about planning, building and organizing your […]
Just like you and me, adults with disabilities enjoy the art of crafting. We all feel the profound satisfaction of completing a craft project. We all turn to scrapbooking or coloring pages if we want to relax or keep busy. Although disabled adults face more challenges than others, they should still indulge in the wonders of crafting. After all, crafting is for everyone. If you're a caregiver, teacher, or family member of a disabled adult, crafting is a great way to keep your student or loved one entertained. Give a simple yet amusing craft project to an adult with disabilities, and they'll stay enjoyably engaged for a while. Or if you're disabled, you can occupy your time with an easy craft for adults with disabilities. Crafting has so many benefits for people living with disabilities, so it's important to apply craft projects to their daily lives. Whether you or your loved one is mentally or physically disabled, this Crafts for Adults with Disabilities guide will teach you everything that you need to know about the best crafts to do with people who have disabilities. From disability statistics to craft projects for disabilities, this article will help you understand the importance of crafting for adults with disabilities.
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Even though I don't really need to do much more research, I seem to be addicted to downloading books from Internet Archive. I really am a research junky. I guess I may as well put all this research energy to good use by sharing some of the good stuff I've found. Because I'm putting lots of pictures in this post, I'm going to insert a page break so it won't bog down folks loading the main page. If you want to see all of the pictures, you'll have to open the post. On my mind this week are closets and other bedroom built-ins—probably because we're trying to make progress on our closet this month. I've cited where I got the drawings. From Housewifery by L. Ray Balderton, 1919 From Home Interiors by the National Lumber Mfg. Association, 1929 From Home Interiors by the National Lumber Mfg. Association, 1929 These three wardrobes are from the Morgan Millwork catalog (1921) I shared a couple days ago. These 5 pages about Closets and Wardrobes are from the book What Makes the House Beautiful: A Collection of Building Details and Measured Drawings, published in 1920 by Henrietta C. Peabody. And three more from various sources. From the Curtis Cabinet and Stair Work catalog, 1927. From an Ideal Built-In Furniture catalog, c. 1920 From a Sears Honor Bilt Building Materials catalog, 1930.
Easiest DIY faux leather storage basket with $2 surprise material! Get organized with this beautiful functional home decor & 10-minute craft.
If you are just starting the 40 days to an organized home with me, check out day one and go from there. Today: Organizing kids art supplies Do you ever feel like your kids have so many art supplies and want to have them organized and contained? I have some that my kids can get at
How to be a craft teacher in your community. How to get started teaching craft classes - what you need to plan, organize, and make happen before you teach your first class.
Welcome! Hello to you all!! I hope you enjoy your time here at Faith, Grace, Crafts, and that you enjoy seeing my craft room. My name is Doni and I am a lover of all things beautiful and lovely. Pearls, Lace, Vintage Thread and Sewing Notions, Buttons and Rhinestones are my top faves. My room is a mixture of all the things that inspire me and things I love. You might see things stay the same for a long time, or things might be changed often, but I have had SO much fun preparing for the party! This is the third year I have joined Karen at My Desert Cottage for the Where Bloggers Create party and I want to give her a huge thank you for hosting! Be sure and check out the other blogs that have joined! And a huge thank you to each of you who have shared your spaces in the past for the inspiration! I LOVE looking through your spaces and look forward to seeing what y'all have to share this year! Now on to my room! Feel free to PIN! The huge long wall of shelving is my main work space. I have used a door from Home Depot for a table (left side), and an old desk on the right. Storage beneath the table is covered with a thrift find...a pink baby bassinet skirt tacked to the sides! If you were here previously, you might remember that I wanted to change rooms with a larger, lighter room that was the guest room. Well, starting in January, I did just that! Everything was changed from one room to the other! It was a HUGE job, but I'm sooooo glad I did it! The button shelf (below) is dedicated to my vintage rhinestone buttons, favorite regular buttons, and rhinestone bead collections. Many styles, colors, and types are stored in glass jars. Most are small spice jars found at Goodwill and garage/yard sales. The larger jars are jelly jars, cleaned out with labels removed. Free is always good! The little salt cellars are almost all of them from my birthmother's collection! The peach colored one below is from a blog friend in Austrailia! Thank you Melanie at French Blue and Peachy Pink!! It fits perfectly with my collection! OK, enough buttons. How about some other items?? Last year I had many of the items I collect displayed by theme. For example all the threads in glass jars all together. This year I put my items similar color groupings. By the way, my favorite color combination is pink and cream... The next area of interest is my collection of lace trims which are displayed in vintage dresser boxes. They are divided boxes and are perfect for perusing the stash! They sit on top of lovely quilted satin boxes (or glove boxes as they are also known), some matching, others not. Lace trims are some of my favorite things, and I love playing with them. I use them in almost all of my blog posts, and I've recently begun to make fabric and lace collages with them. See my older posts if you are interested in fabric and lace collages! The chair above is the most comfortable chair I own. I have owned it for many years. AND although it lacks in style and has shabby tatty arms, I love it and won't get rid of it. Instead, I have my most favorite and gorgeous piece of floral barkcloth over the back, and some hand-stitched arm doilies displayed. Believe me, it's the best spot in the house! And if you were guessing that these boxes below must have laces in them too, then you were correct!! The wallpaper drawers store my doilies as well as my huge collection of colored seam bindings and tapes in packages. The bottom box of 4 drawers is full of paper flowers! Next we can have a peek at the sewing corner where my machine resides. Above it is my collection of vintage thread cards. I just love these little bits of color! And next to the machine is a shelf full of vintage sewing boxes. Yes, they're full of lace. Mostly. There IS some thread in ONE of them. I have blogged about the drawers of lace in the past and have more to show you in the future! I love these old sewing boxes and would love more!!! But their prices are getting too high... Nadine is the name of my dress form, and I've introduced you to her before here. She is wearing one of my most exciting finds! My husband and I went to an estate sale last spring, and way in the back of the house was a huge trunk. I opened it up, and dove in. Anything with lace on it I grabbed. I noticed the dress (I'm sure the look on my face would have made you all laugh!), and quickly bundled all the pieces together to add to my official "PILE" of objects for purchase. Get this....the whole pile of laces was only 5 bucks!! The musical dress form below is one I made using cardstock printed with old music, then glued to a plastic dress form with Mod-Podge! Thanks to Carol at the Polka Dot Closet and her great tutorials! The tray of pearls (above) has been one of my favorite spots in this room. I did a post about it previously HERE, and still can't make myself do anything different with it! So, the pearls will stay here. There are some other pictures I took of the room, different spots of interest here and there, and I hope that you have spotted some fun and interesting items. This lovely Limoges bowl is from my friend Beverly at Tea Cottage Pretties!...specially picked out for me by her daughters and her!! It's so beautiful. Be looking for a special post about it in the future!! Yes, the door is pink! It has been so wonderful to have you come over to visit me. I hope to see more of you! Please feel free to PIN any of my pictures that you'd like. I have a Pinterest Board full of my favorite pictures that I got from all of YOU!! You all inspire me!! And come back this fall when I will start up Pearls and Lace Thursday again. It's been wonderful to be a part of Where Bloggers Create again this year. Thank you again Karen for such a fun party, and for hosting this awesome event. And again thank you all for coming by!! Blessings to each of you, Doni
Welcome to Saturday Nite Special #99, the multi themed link party! * Home Decor * Crafts, / Sewing / Recipes * Theme of the week Every Fri 7pm to Sunday 11 pm Pacific. ~ the ultimate repurposes ~ I LOVE to repurpose! And most of my projects (main link HERE) are all about that. But […]
Baking soda and colored vinegar eruptions have been one of our daughter’s favorite activities for years. What’s not to like? They’re fun. They’re fizzy and they’re colorful. They are so beautiful that we have even made a few art projects using the eruptions. For Valentine’s Day this year, we made Fizzing Heart Art. The fizzing hearts were such a […]
Kids dye their own chunky wool yarn with Koolaid, then make happy little weavings on cardboard looms.
Our customers are always asking for tips on how to store their Lindy's products, so we are sharing a few photos from our Design Team showing you how they store
Happy Earth Day everyone! In honour of this special day I’ve rounded up 25 recycled tin can crafts and projects. I am amazed at all the incredible things one can do with a simple tin can! Take a peek at all these fun ideas! Chalkboard Paint Tin Can Pots | The Garden Glove Fruit Can […]
Meet Brydie Stewart, a macrame wall hanging artist who works from her studio in Kiama, NSW. What her friends once called that “weird knotting thing” has given former teacher Brydie Stewart a surprising new outlet.
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In this post, I'm going to give you an insider's view of this one-of-a-kind experience. From the lavender mimosas to the adorable little Italian antique escargot pots, come have a look.
A huge welcome to each of you! I hope you enjoy my craft room. I've spent MONTHS getting ready for your visit! Many hours of cleaning and reorganizing. I've added a ton of new items to my collections, and have displayed them because I love them. If you'd like to see last year's photos of my room, you can click here to compare. Come on in, grab a glass of tea, and have a look! You may open drawers and boxes to your heart's content... A huge thanks to Karen at My Desert Cottage for hosting this awesome party! My favorite spot (below) is the sewing area. Not that I sew much. I just love sewing notions and laces. I have quite a few vintage sewing boxes that are covered in various tattered fabrics, and yes... they are loaded! Someone asked me if I knew which drawers had 'what' in them, and for the most part, I do. I have lots of lace hidden in these drawers! I'll show you some of my favorite drawers later in this post. The seam binding ribbon is so pretty, I decided to let it hang low over the shelf below to help hide my most used supplies (pens, scissors, etc.). I love the colors and sometimes just run my hand through it for fun! As you can see, I utilize almost every inch of wall space! The shelving is a mix of wooden shelves on simple brackets of metal or wood. I use inexpensive jars to hold favorite buttons and threads. The white plastic drawers have held my scrapbooking items for years, and I've recently added vintage pieces of music pages to their fronts to unify them. The shelf liner is also vintage music, simply cut into strips with shaped scissors and adhered to the wooden shelves. Easiest and quickest project I've done. My favorite laces and threads have center stage, because I love to see the pretty colors. I guess it just makes me happy to gaze at the lovely shades of colors. At one time I thought I would try to use only one color combination (pink and cream) in my room decor. I quickly found out that I couldn't live without seeing all of the lovely items I'd collected, so they all came out! This large green floral box actually folds up. I have it sitting on a shelf and it is full of counted cross stitch patterns and materials. Using vintage storage items for my pretties has to be one of the best ways to decorate my space. If I see what I have, I tend to use it more often. When I choose something for a photo shoot for a blog post, I try to make sure to put it back where I will remember it! Sometimes I have piles and piles of items on my guestroom bed where I tend to do most of my photography. Thankfully I don't have much overnight company! I love this little room, but have wanted to swap rooms with the guest room. The light in there is sooooo much better than this room. Maybe for next year! At the time I am writing this, I have to admit to y'all that I've already changed these lingerie boxes around! It seems that I'm always morphing, shifting, changing and re-doing something in this room! Over the last few years, I have been blessed to be able to host a blog party called Pearls and Lace Thursday. I try to remember to place a Bible verse in each post, but I sometimes forget. One of the most important things about my blog though, is that it is a place where the Word is shared. Using the collections God has given me as a background, I'd like to share some things with you: I hope that you'll each be blessed by my posts and if you have any questions, always feel free to email me. And come back each Thursday to join me for Pearls and Lace Thursdays!! Sneak Peeks below! I have lots to share with y'all in future posts!! OK...this drawer of laces above is my favorite drawer.... Well actually...THIS drawer (above) is my favorite!! Hmmm, I have lots of favorites to be honest with you!!! I think I must just be a collector of pretties more than a crafter these days. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to make things, but it seems that more and more I prefer to just make it look pretty and then look at it...photograph it, and blog about it! I hope you enjoyed touring my little craft room. I've enjoyed getting it ready for you! Now, if I'll just uncover the sewing machine and actually MAKE something! A huge hug for each of you, and a big welcome for my newest followers! blessings, Doni parties I attend: Mosiac Monday at http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/ Today's Thrifty Treasures at http://southernhospitalityblog.com/ Blue Monday at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ Show Off Your Cottage Monday at http://houseinroses.blogspot.com/ Metamorphosis Monday http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ Cowgirl Up Party Monday http://farmhouseporch.blogspot.com/ Just Something I Whipped Up http://www.thegirlcreative.com/ Knick of Time Tuesday http://knickoftimeinteriors.blogspot.com/ Teacup Tuesday at http://www.marthasfavorites.com/ Teatime Tuesday at http://sandimyyellowdoor.blogspot.com/ Victoria Tuesday at http://blissfulrhythm.blogspot.com/ Tuesday Tea for Two at http://theplumedpen.blogspot.com/ Teatime Tuesday at http://ladykatherineteaparlor.blogspot.com/ Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday at http://breathoffreshair-paperbutterfly.blogspot.com/ Teapot and Tea Things Tuesday at http://silkenpurse.blogspot.com/ Tea Cup Tuesday at http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/ 2nd Time Around Tuesday at http://diane1876.blogspot.com/ White Wednesday http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/ What's It Wednesday http://ivyandelephants.blogspot.com/ Whatever You Want Wednesday http://www.freeprettythingsforyou.com/ Vintage Thingie Thursday http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/ Minute for Me Thursday http://marciascraftysewing.blogspot.com/ Treasure Hunt Thursday http://www.bluecreekhome.com/ Open House Party http://nominimalisthere.blogspot.com/ Home Sweet Home http://thecharmofhome.blogspot.com/ Feathered Nest Friday http://frenchcountrycottage.blogspot.com/ Show and Tell Friday http://romantichome.blogspot.com/ It's a Hodgepodge Friday http://itsahodgepodgelife.blogspot.com/ Frugalicious Friday http://decormamma.blogspot.com/ A Crafty Soiree http://www.katiesnestingspot.com/ Vintage Inspiration Friday http://commonground-debrasvintagedesigns.blogspot.com/ Inspiration Friday http://www.atthepicketfence.com/ Thrifty Things Friday http://thethriftygroove.blogspot.com/ Simple and Sweet Fridays http://rootedinthyme.blogspot.com/ Flaunt It Friday http://chiconashoestringdecorating.blogspot.com/ Pink Saturday http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ Sew Darn Crafty http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/
Young -the talented woman behind Scarlet Elfcup-, describes her work with the following words: Dreams, Imagination, Adventure & Playfulness for all ages. Oh it is so true! Her work is truly won…
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PLEASE NOTE: We have changed the glass palette previously included with the Oil / Acrylic version (and shown in the photographs) to a more durable white Corian version. The Scout Plein Air Box was inspired by our endeavor to make art every day. This pochade box compactly secures all of your essential art supplies for painting outdoors. Fill your box with your favorite colors, paintbrushes, and sketchbook. Find your spot and quickly transform the box into a mini studio. Set it on a flat surface or mount it on a tripod, snap the liquid jars, brush holder, and easel in place, clip on your canvas and you are ready to paint! When stepping outside, perspective changes and we discover unknown parts of ourselves. By making plein air painting a ritual, we are able to better consider our world and our relationship with it. We begin to observe more closely, to better see color, and to hone memory whilst striving to capture fleeting moments. Sling your Scout Plein Air Box over your shoulder and set out on a painting adventure—you might just find something! “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something… You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” –from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Watch Walter’s video walkthrough of the features of the Scout. Read our blog post about developing the Scout.
