Using domestic arts to live a simple, frugal life

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Homemade Draft Guard

January 11, 2010

Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.We all know the benefits of keeping the cold air out of your home during the heating season. It’s pretty much common sense that if you have cool drafts coming in then your furnace/wood stove/heat source is going to [...]

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Making Throw Pillows

January 4, 2010

You may remember a while back I wrote about my un-decorated house. I lamented that there wasn’t much style or really any purposeful decorating in my home. I’ve done little things here and there but now that Christmas has passed I really have a chance to get things under control. I’m excited to share a [...]

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Homemade Dora Backpack

December 9, 2009

A couple weeks ago I shared the Map I made as part of a Christmas gift for Chloe. I had originally planned to give you step-by-step instructions for the Backpack but I ended up assembling it in more of a trial-and-error sort of way so it didn’t work out. I still want to share the final [...]

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Simplifying Christmas Projects

December 2, 2009

Last week in my Christmas stockings post I mentioned that I chose that particular pattern to simplify. I had a great idea for quilted stockings but it just wasn’t going to happen this year. I could have just admitted defeat at that point and abandoned the project but I didn’t. The original idea was good [...]

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Christmas Stockings

November 24, 2009

I was planning on sewing Christmas stockings this year. I had this great idea to make some really nice quilted ones. However, as I watched my Christmas project list grow before my eyes, I began to think that time-consuming project just might need to be simplified a little.