My parents recently moved cross-continent to a house with more square footage but less storage space than their old home. This provoked a dismaying (to me) and zealous desire to unload us kids’ old stuff, making us take possession of it once more, despite us living in apartments with an even greater lack of storage. […]
beading on a DIY loom
http://tallystreasury.com/2014/09/beading-on-a-diy-loom/
a quick & removeable way to hang ornaments & pretty much anything else
Hey internet! I’m here to show you this one weird trick for making your Christmas tree look totally perfect! My gosh I loathe those ads. Ok so it’s not actually that weird, and it’s not really a trick, just, well, a thing you can do, and it is absolutely in no way guaranteed to endow […]
http://tallystreasury.com/2013/12/a-quick-removeable-way-to-hang-ornaments-pretty-much-anything-else/
embossed paper “beach ball” ornaments
Well this is a bit embarrassing. Last time I put a proper tutorial up on this blog, it was Halloween season. And now it’s the Christmas season, with a big huge lapse of DIY silence in between. I’m afraid that with my day job, commission work and additional Desert Bus for Hope responsibilities this year, […]
http://tallystreasury.com/2013/12/paper-beach-ball-style-ornaments/
banana birds – blanket stitching & inside-out seams
Sunday afternoons should look like this: a glass of red wine, a relaxing craft project and dinner in the slow cooker, steaming up the windows and making the neighbours drool at the smell winding through the building. Sadly, the view from the couch where I sit with my glass of wine and crafting looks awfully […]
http://tallystreasury.com/2012/01/banana-birds-blanket-stitching-inside-out-seams/
needle felted birds – and an Iconocraft Christmas!
After all I said last week about holding off on Christmas decorations, it my seem a bit ironic that my friends and I held a Christmas craft fair last night. But with Desert Bus starting next week, and the venue being pretty much booked solid through the rest of this year, we had to make […]
http://tallystreasury.com/2011/11/needle-felted-birds-and-an-iconocraft-christmas/
paper ornaments – it’s Magic!
My friends and I have been playing a lot of Magic over the last few months. For those who don’t know, it’s a highly addictive fantasy-world card game that encourages you to buy way too many bits of beautifully decorated, heavyweight paper. Ie: cards. Not only have we all been buying a lot of cards, […]
http://tallystreasury.com/2010/12/paper-ornaments-its-magic/