Project Life : Holtmans

This post contains affiliate links – Disclosure here. So I’m trying something new with how I present my project life layouts. I’m scanning each piece and arranging them again digitally. It saves me fighting with the glare of photographing a page protector, and I think is a more accurate representation of the layout. Which do

Danish Oil on Brasilla

So I know I’ve been a bad blogger, but for good reasons! I’ve been pinching pennies for a trip to europe this year! In fact I’ve even been selling some stuff that doesn’t fit very well in my house anymore. The brasilla commodes are one of those things. They were one of my first purchases

How to get beautiful grout.

My bathroom isn’t my favorite room in the house. It’s probably the only room I planned, and still do plan, to gut and redo if I ever have the money. But alas, I don’t have the money. I normally put on my best ignore face and carry on, but the grout in the shower has

Project Life Week Four

I’m officially a month into this little weekly scrapbook project and I’m finally finding my groove and my style. I present week four!   I played a bit with acrylic paint this week, often painting directly on the photos. Not having scrapbooked in the age of digital photos until recently can i just say how

Less of a deathtrap.

So I’ve been spending more time in the loft, where my craft room is. I’m also have some people over to craft in it tonight, and figured I should do something about the deathtrap that is the upstairs railing. Take a look.   Yes, that is only one rail on the right side, and yes,

Project Life Week Three

I need to set up a studio box to get decent pictures of the full layouts for project life. I didn’t bother this week, since they’re were a few photos I’d rather keep off the internet included in this layout. Nothing scandalous! Sometimes it’s nice to reel back your over share every once in awhile.

Printable Journal Cards

I’ve been getting really into the whole Scrap Booking thing, and managed to make two sets of printable journal cards!   They’re available on Etsy (Click here to visit the shop), Pastel Glitch is 4$, and fuzzy feeling is 2.50$. But I decided to give my blog readers a bit of a coupon! Enter readerperksjuly13 at

Like I needed another hobby.

So I’ve been fortunate enough to take three pretty big deal vacations this year. Brian and I went to LA, San Francisco, and Puerto Rico. We of course have a tons of photos. I love being able to share them online, but sometimes it’s just nice to have physical copies. I used to be really

Duct Tape, Undercover.

Recently I’ve been taking Gertie’s online bombshell dress course. It involves a lot of fitting, and she does most of it on a dress form. For those of you that sew, you know fitting or draping a garment on yourself is very hard, if not damn near impossible. So I did what many people do,

How I Store My Vintage Patterns

I know I’ve mentioned my sewing pattern hoard collection before. I own a lot. Probably too many. I’d say my collection is about half vintage, and half modern. I just had them stuffed in a box haphazardly for a long time, which made it hard to find anything. Also it wasn’t doing any favors for