Happy Halloween! My pumpkin is ready to welcome trick-or-treaters. This year I painted it gold before carving it up. Now it looks snazzy in the daylight too. You know the smell a pumpkin makes when it has a candle burning inside? I love that smell.
A while back I started reminiscing about this awesome rubber dinosaur I had as a kid. I’m not sure why it was so memorable, but I could recall every bump of its reptilian skin and the strange rubber smell it emitted. Sure enough I found one on ebay. I got it into my head that [...]
My “Grammy” is turning 80 next month! She’s in town for Thanksgiving, so I’m hosting a surprise birthday dinner for her tonight. I’m gifting Grammy with a basket full of Wit & Whistle stationery since she loves to write letters. A much as I love bunting banners I’d never actually made one before, so I [...]
This year I skipped pumpkin carving. Let’s face it, it’s messy, time consuming, and pumpkin goo makes my hands itchy. Instead I got some skinny masking tape, pressed a strip into each groove around my pumpkin, spray painted it, and removed the tape. The tape ripped off some of the paint with it, but I [...]
In October I fell in love with John and Sherry’s puffy paint pumpkins, but it seemed a shame to waste such a great idea on perishable pumpkins. So, when my maidenhair fern needed a planter to call home I went to work on an old glass vase. You’ll need: a glass vase a dry erase marker [...]
I bought these lamps for our bedroom when we first got married. Since then I decided that they were a bit too traditional for my taste, but it was nothing spray paint and new lampshades couldn’t fix! How sweet is the white ceramic tree from Urban Outfitters?