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Valentine’s Day re-purposing, part 2. (This one does involve chocolate). We eat a lot of a certain brand of French jelly. The jars are really cute and so very difficult to toss in the garbage. So, naturally, we have saved … Continue reading →

A Valentine’s re-purposing that doesn’t involve chocolate. Valentine’s day is fast approaching so we decided to create something for Anna’s Pre-K class to enjoy. We have mounds of old broken crayons.  We peeled them (and peeled, and peeled) and melted … Continue reading →

What kid doesn’t love footed pajamas? They are warm and fuzzy and just fun.  My daughter Anna loves the idea of footed pajamas but always complains that she is hot in the middle of the night.  When she asked to … Continue reading →

Today’s re-purposing idea comes from 8-year-old Colin. He and big brother James attended a piano event last Saturday in which they both came home with quite a few ribbons. What to do with them? Colin came up with the idea … Continue reading →

Re-purposed Felted Wool: The final Chapter With the last of the wool sweaters we created some much loved clips. The girls love to wear “fancy” clips in their hair. Felted wool is easy to shape into flowers, hearts or bows. … Continue reading →

Re-purposed Felted Wool: The Ball and Puppy Are you beginning to recognize the sweaters yet? That’s right, the tan sweater is now a puppy, complete with a striped sweater dot. With the rest of the striped sweater, we fashioned a … Continue reading →

Re-purposed Felted Wool Continued… Here is the adorable Jace sporting a pair of wool leg warmers and a hat.  By cutting the sleeves off of a felted sweater we had instant leg warmers (no sewing needed!).  Carol took the shoulders … Continue reading →

Felted wool, part IV: A Wool Basket We saw this project in an old Martha Stewart magazine and as with most MS projects, thought it was too complicated. However, once we got going, we realized that it was simple. (Take … Continue reading →

Re-purposed felted wool, part III: The Wool Clutch. We are back with another felted wool project. By now the wool is probably starting to look a bit familiar (think brown iPod case). We took the part of the sweater with … Continue reading →

Our kids had a couple of birthday parties last weekend, so Melany and I used it as an excuse to create! We had been wanting to try this cloth house for a while. Now I need to figure out how … Continue reading →