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Origami paper stars for garlands or gifts
Making paper Christmas decorations is one of my favorite things this time of year. I found instructions here for making an 8-pointed origam...
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Nice wallpapers for artists and makers
I love these hand-lettered desktop wallpapers by Mary Kate McDevitt for We Make . They're sized for various screens and devices. Choose...
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Customize and print a free holiday card
Hope you had a lovely break! I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that Christmas lights have popped up all over the neighbor...
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Apple sweet potato juice
I'm off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving, but first I wanted to show you my new favorite orange thing: apple sweet potato juice. It...
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Handmade holiday gift ideas
The long Thanksgiving weekend coming up might allow some time for making handmade Christmas presents. Here's a sampling of tutorials fro...
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Style quizzes: 80s hair, first ladies and more
Completely frivolous Friday afternoon fun: taking fashion quizzes at MyLifetime.com . Find out if you're a fashionista . Do you know wha...
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Free Thanksgiving printable invites and tags
If you want to get fancy this Thanksgiving, the generous designers of the interwebs are offering lots of free printable invitations, tags, a...
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Young House Love: a bushel of DIY ideas
A review copy of Young House Love just arrived. It's John and Sherry Petersik's labor of love, stuffed with 243 marvelously doable ...
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Free font: Manteka
Manteka is a squarish, all-caps typeface by Eduardo Araya. You can download the TrueType font here for free. (Find the link under the t-shi...
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Thanksgiving printable cards
Download a sheet of three thank you note designs by Oana Befort at Sincerely, Kinsey. Oana generously shares lots more freebies at her own...
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Waste time with Draw a Stickman
Folks trying to kill time before the weekend kicks off might like to Draw a Stickman . Follow the instructions in this little animated game ...
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Quirky fall wallpaper freebies
Download non-traditional fall wallpapers for desktops and iPhones from imm Living , a design company based in Toronto. Nothing says autumn l...
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Make pie chart paper pendants
If charts, graphs and metrics are your thing, you might enjoy crafting some pie chart pendants. They're made entirely of paper. Oh, and ...
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"Go Vote" illustrations by artists
Americans, did you do it yet? To help with motivation, GoVote.org has a gallery of hundreds of illustrations from artists nationwide. You c...
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Dog collars and leashes at JCP
Here's a bit of design work from months ago. I just got samples in the mail. My client L.L. Lily was approached by JC Penney to produce ...
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DIY ideas for blank walls
Blank walls are always a challenge, unless you've got an interior designer, artist friends, or buckets of money. I've collected some...
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DIY postcard wall art
I made something new for the living room: a big collage of postcards mounted on foam board. This boxed set of 100 vintage Penguin book cover...
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