Editor’s Note: If you’ve been to our Craftcation: Business & Makers Conference, then you probably already know (and love) our friends at Darice who have been our official craft supply sponsor for the conference for the past four years! If you don’t know about Darice yet and you’re a craft blogger or handmade business owner, you REALLY […]

Editor’s Note: We welcomed new sponsors Fair Isle Yarn and Love + Lemon Craft Co. to our Craftcation Conference last year where we got to know their products and fell in love! We’re excited to share this tutorial highlighting a modern color palette from Fair Isle Yarn and fun yet classic jewelry findings from Love + Lemon […]

I’ve had a real love and fascination for pretty much anything galaxy themed for awhile now and I’ve slowly been collecting pieces to decorate my second bathroom. While I already have some solid pieces from other awesome artists I wanted to add a more personal touch with some of my own art so I came […]

Over the past few years I’ve realized that as a creative business owner, if I don’t take time out to take care of myself, not only do I suffer, but my business does too. I’m not alone in this struggle to find harmony with my work and personal life. Burnout, overwhelm and excessive busyness were […]

 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 […]