I don’t know about you but I feel like I’m constantly drowning in a sea of To Do lists. As someone who works from home, I can find it challenging to stay on task with so many distractions around, hello three cats! Since I am such a visual person one thing that helps me […]

As the days start getting warmer, I begin getting the itch to add some pops of color into my home to help cheer up the space. Tropical plants are super cute and in right now, and while somehow I manage to keep myself, my husband & my cats alive I cannot seem to do the same […]

My friend is having a baby, so I swung by my local big box baby store. My family currently is just my hubby and me—so it was a new experience. Almost instantly, I was lost in the aisles.  The dizzying display of strollers, bouncers, car seats, wipes, diaper creams, shampoos and baby lotions in rainbow-colored […]

By: Nik Vandeventer For the past few years instead of choosing a New Year’s resolution I have chosen a word of the year. A word of the year is supposed to be an intention word, something that you want to manifest in yourself or your life. Well, this past year I did neither of those […]

My mom is pretty awesome, my first DIY hero. So many kid memories of sitting on the floor with some crazy construction paper creation—that required yards and yards of tape—while she whirred away on her sewing machine. She also taught me to respect and care for my crafting tools. You won’t catch my mom sewing on […]

DIY Tasseled Instax photo Wall Hanger By: Nik Vandeventer   I don’t know about you but I take A LOT of photos, not only as a photographer but just as a human in this world who constantly has a camera at my ready on my phone. And while I’m really good at taking photos and […]

Every spring I head to Ventura, California for our annual Craftcation: Business + Maker’s Conference. Ventura is one of my favorite California beach towns because the temperature is pretty much in the mid 70s year round, it has a great downtown filled with restaurants, shops, bars and historic buildings and somehow it’s still held onto this […]

When I was in grad school in San Francisco, my friend Paige and I had regular painting nights in her studio apartment in the Tenderloin. Paige’s apartment was so tiny that in order to have space to do anything, we had put up her Murphy bed and move all the furniture to one corner. Then […]

Hi everyone! Joan from Break + Remake here! You’ll love this tutorial for a doily dream catcher and bonus, you’ll put it together in a snap. It was easier than I thought it would be to put it together. If you have lace doilies, grab them. If you don’t they are pretty easy to find at […]

Editor’s Note: We’re excited to welcome Nik Vanderveter from WastingThyme for some guest posts. Nik is one of the craft managers for our business and makers conference Craftcation + she’s also a super talented maker and photographer.  P.S. – If you’re inspired by this project and want to get your DIY on or need packaging or shipping supplies for […]