This months Etsy Fort Worth upcycle challenge is clothespins. Part of the fun of these challenges, for me, is just trying to use what I have already on hand. I only had 5 clothepins in the house so that meant that I was a little limited in what I could make. I also think clothespins are really useful and I didn't want to make something where I had to take them apart or make them not work … [Read more...]

I've been eyeing some of these tutorials for yarn wrapped ear buds for awhile. I like being able to drop a pair in my purse to use when I'm walking around campus, but they always end up tangled. The tutorials I've seen for these yarn wrapped ear buds all say they help with the tangling problem, so the project has been sitting in my to-do pile. With school starting in just a couple of weeks it was … [Read more...]

This month's Etsy Fort Worth upcycle challenge was to make something with popsicle sticks. Now, I have to admit right at the start that I went out and bought a package of popsicle sticks for this project. It's not that we haven't eaten popsicles, I just always forgot to save them! Thankfully this project only uses a few of them so I have plenty left in my package to make more … [Read more...]

The twins have a pretty diverse collection of ties in their closet. Regular ties, clip on ties, zip ties, you get the picture. Recently one of their clip on ties broke. The tie itself was fine, but the plastic piece that it was tied on to broke. The tie part of a clip on tie is shorter than a regular tie. It was even to short to tie like a regular tie and use on the toddler. But I thought there … [Read more...]