Mother’s Day
Need easy Mother’s Day gift ideas to make yourself? With a DIY Mother’s Day, your homemade gifts for Mom are extra thoughtful. Try arranging several easy items in a DIY basket. Browse our handmade Mother’s Day craft ideas to make her day with a present for Mom you made yourself.
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Quick Beaded Gifts
If you have beads and some basic tools, you can be ready with a unique and personal gift in minutes. I made all of these projects with beginner-level beading skills…
How to Make Tubular Herringbone Beaded Jewelry
Tubular Herringbone (sometimes called Ndebele) stitch creates sinuous beaded ropes that await your creativity to design bracelets, necklaces and more. It can be a fussy stitch to get started, but…
Peyote Stitch Cellini Spiral Basics
Peyote-Stitched Cellini Spiral looks really complicated, but it’s just a glorified peyote rope. The stitch is even count tubular peyote with a step up. It’s the change in bead sizes…
Two Ways to Make Dangling Gemstone Earrings
For her wedding, my daughter wanted "new" pearl earrings to coordinate with the "old" pearl strands she planned to wear around her neck and in her hair. It meant a…
Creative Mothering
When I was just seven, our father accepted a job in Iran. So the family of four (parents and two little girls) put most of our belongings in storage. Then…
Charming Mug Rug and Wine Coasters
Quick and easy, make a mug rug for your cup of coffee or tea, as well as a wine coaster where everyone can keep track of whose is whose! If…
How to Make Bath Bombs
Bath bombs are expensive, so I thought, "I can make them at home!" But it wasn't that easy. There are a ton of different recipes for bath bombs, and some…