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Saturday, January 4, 2020
Cruising with Confidence Class Coming Soon
Boise Community Education's Winter Catalog came out today. Guess whose class - and picture from Alaska - made the front cover?
Registration is open!
Class details can be found here. I’d love to have you join me!
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
String Snowball Ornament and Winter Decor DIY Craft Project - Tutorial Tuesday
Today's project is doing double duty as a Christmas ornament and an after-Christmas and still-winter snowball decoration. We're working with string and glue so you better cover that work surface - it might get messy!
To make these you will need:
Check out the video for the step-by-step how to directions for the homemade string snowball Christmas Tree ornament craft project:
To make these you will need:
- String, twine, or yarn (I'm using cotton crochet thread.)
- White glue
- Water
- Sponge brush
- Balloons
Looking for more Christmas ornament ideas? Check out these projects!
Disclosure: Deb's Days is a participant in affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to affiliated sites. This means that, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. Your purchase helps support my work in bringing you new sewing and crafting content.
Friday, December 27, 2019
The Final Friday 15
Way back when, our daughter kept telling us not to leave a bunch of stuff for her to get rid of. (Like when we're dead and gone and she has to clean out the house.)
We listened to her. Several years ago we sold our big two-story house and moved into a small two bedroom manufactured home in a retirement community. Got rid of couches and sofas and chairs. Coffee tables and end tables and lamps. TVs and a double digit number of bookcases. Desks and printers and computers and office supplies. Teaching materials. Camping equipment and Christmas decorations. Dressers and oh-so-many clothes. And much more stuff we haven't yet missed.
We thought we had done pretty darn good. Once we were settled into this new place we had room for everything. No storage unit needed, no boxes of junk thrown in closets. It all fit just fine. But then I started looking around and realized we still had too much stuff. So these past two years I've been working on getting rid even more things.
Thus the Friday 15 was born.
Every week I made it a goal to get rid of 15 items by Friday. Between the things I took photos of and the things I didn't, over the course of two years I've gotten rid of 2,000+ things. (How is that even possible?!) The Idaho Youth Ranch Thrift Store was the recipient of most of the donations, with the garbage and recycling bins getting another chunk. I sold a slew of things on eBay and a few items even made their way into our daughter's house.
Thanks to the Friday 15 I now have empty drawers in the bathroom, empty cabinets in the kitchen, and empty shelves in the closets. It's a nice feeling. It's allowed us to live my collect moments, not things mantra.
Letting go of the stuff has lightened our loads and cleared our minds. As embarrassing as it may be to show some of my discarded stuff off to the world, I'm okay with it. The end result is so worth it. While I'll never be done-done, I'm as close as I'm going to get for a while.
If you're ready to consider downsizing your own life and want to explore more about the how and why, check out The Minimalists. Life changing.
Goodbye junk. Goodbye Friday 15. Goodbye 2019.
We listened to her. Several years ago we sold our big two-story house and moved into a small two bedroom manufactured home in a retirement community. Got rid of couches and sofas and chairs. Coffee tables and end tables and lamps. TVs and a double digit number of bookcases. Desks and printers and computers and office supplies. Teaching materials. Camping equipment and Christmas decorations. Dressers and oh-so-many clothes. And much more stuff we haven't yet missed.
We thought we had done pretty darn good. Once we were settled into this new place we had room for everything. No storage unit needed, no boxes of junk thrown in closets. It all fit just fine. But then I started looking around and realized we still had too much stuff. So these past two years I've been working on getting rid even more things.
Thus the Friday 15 was born.
Every week I made it a goal to get rid of 15 items by Friday. Between the things I took photos of and the things I didn't, over the course of two years I've gotten rid of 2,000+ things. (How is that even possible?!) The Idaho Youth Ranch Thrift Store was the recipient of most of the donations, with the garbage and recycling bins getting another chunk. I sold a slew of things on eBay and a few items even made their way into our daughter's house.
Thanks to the Friday 15 I now have empty drawers in the bathroom, empty cabinets in the kitchen, and empty shelves in the closets. It's a nice feeling. It's allowed us to live my collect moments, not things mantra.
Letting go of the stuff has lightened our loads and cleared our minds. As embarrassing as it may be to show some of my discarded stuff off to the world, I'm okay with it. The end result is so worth it. While I'll never be done-done, I'm as close as I'm going to get for a while.
If you're ready to consider downsizing your own life and want to explore more about the how and why, check out The Minimalists. Life changing.
Downsizing in 2019
Downsizing in 2018
emptied my computer trash |
Goodbye junk. Goodbye Friday 15. Goodbye 2019.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
How to Make a Scrap Fabric Potholder - Tutorial Tuesday
Today's potholder project will help you get rid of some of those odd-shaped Christmas fabric scraps you may have floating around.
For this project you will need:
Ready for the directions? You can find the step-by-step how to tutorial for the patchwork quilted scrap fabric potholder right here:
For this project you will need:
- Fabric scraps, cotton
- 8.5" x 8.5" piece of backing fabric, cotton
- 8.5" x 8.5" piece of cotton batting
- 8.5" x 8.5" piece of Insul-Bright
- Some type of adhesive - basting spray
- Pinking shears
- Pins or Clover Wonder Clips
- Iron
- Sewing machine
- Matching thread
- Rotary cutter
- Cutting ruler
- Cutting mat
- Template downloaded from here (print 2)
Disclosure: Deb's Days is a participant in affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to affiliated sites. This means that, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. Your purchase helps support my work in bringing you new sewing and crafting content.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
How to Make a Quick & Easy Gift Card Holder - Tutorial Tuesday
Tutorial Tuesdays are back!
If you need a super-fast gift card holder, I've got you covered with today's project. I think it's probably the fastest thing I've ever made.
For this project you'll need:
If you need a super-fast gift card holder, I've got you covered with today's project. I think it's probably the fastest thing I've ever made.
For this project you'll need:
- fabric
- felt
- pinking shears
- Pins or Clover Wonder Clips
- Iron
- Sewing machine
- Matching thread
- Rotary cutter
- Cutting ruler
- Cutting mat
Disclosure: Deb's Days is a participant in affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to affiliated sites. This means that, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. Your purchase helps support my work in bringing you new sewing and crafting content.
Looking for more different card holders? Check out these projects!
Ready for the easy directions? The step-by-step how to tutorial for the quick and easy homemade gift card holder sewing project is right here:
Thursday, December 12, 2019
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