DIY Buffalo Check and snowflake wood Christmas ornaments with scrap wood!

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DIY Buffalo Check and snowflake wood Christmas ornaments with scrap wood!

Learn how to make the cutest, affordable wood Christmas ornaments from scrap wood in two styles! Includes Buffalo Checked presents and wood slice snowflakes. Includes a helpful video teaching you how to stencil a Buffalo Check pattern to any surface. Once again, I was desiring a whole new look for this year’s Christmas tree. But […]

Reclaimed wood Christmas and winter trees

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Reclaimed wood Christmas and winter trees . I thought Christmas was on Saturday. Glancing at the calendar today, it’s Wednesday! How did I get that wrong?! Maybe it’s a good thing after all, because I was just in the workshop cutting these cute little stenciled scrap wood Christmas and winter trees, totally oblivious to the […]

Rustic wood Christmas candles with a snowflake shelf

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I really love the look of candles. I love how they flicker and make everything soooo cozy. However, I rarely burn them these days. I guess the resistance stems back from when my son was young. A flickering flame was just a dangerous thing back then. And now with jumping cats, I’m still leery. Probably […]

Stained and stenciled cardboard banner and dollar store revamps

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Bu Right before my Toronto conference trip, I was rummaging through my craft stash and found a packaged cardboard pennant kit I had picked up from a craft store months ago.    And what great timing! I had also just visited a dollar store and made a great haul with some mini wooden crates, trays […]

Toolbox shelf for a Christmas hot cocoa bar

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Every Christmas, I love to dream up a new hot cocoa bar idea. Blame it on our currently blustery weather! It. Is. COLD. And we west coaster Canadians aren’t use to it. So this year, a cheater idea came to mind. How about a toolbox shelf? I love not having to build everything from scratch […]