Amateur Craft Hour

I got this hair-brained idea that I wanted an old, weathered hand painted sign for our nerd cave in our basement.  I found lots of gre...

I love to make Christmas gifts.  I usually don't have the time to make anything elaborate, though, so when I saw this tutorial for tot...

 It was a super hero kind of Halloween this year.  When Skeeto said he wanted to be Spiderman, I decided to punt and buy him a costume.  B...

The Third Annual Hansen Halloween Craft Extravaganza was a success!  We had a great time together making Halloween books.  I had tried s...

First I took a leftover shelf from IKEA and painted the entire thing white.  I then put a second coat of white on the second and 4th sla...

I decided to make Valentines for the Young Women this year.  I wanted something easy, cute and NOT food!   These button earrings did th...