I had the opportunity to provide a couple of holiday craft projects on ABC Family’s website. The first one, the Blue & White Coffee Filter Christmas Tree, is live now. The second one should be up soon, which is the adorable snowflake apron you see pictured here. I’ll update this post with the link to […]

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Back in the fall of 2003 I was approached by Kaboose.com and asked to create kid’s craft projects for their website. On average, I created 10 craft tutorials per month for the first year. It later increased to 15 crafts per month and then a couple years in, Disney bought the Canadian company. I continued […]

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I’m excited to announce that I have signed with Reader’s Digest Children’s Publications in the development of two kid’s crafts and activity books, with possibly more to come! I’ll be working hard over the next couple of months to get the projects together and hope to be able to divulge more details soon. Special thanks […]

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If you subscribe to Family Fun or Parents Magazine, keep your eye out for the August issues. Family Fun will be featuring my Craft Stick Farm Animals. They will have one of their staff make the craft using my instructions, so I’m excited to see their version! Also, I recently made some Egg Carton Farm […]

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I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a position as an editor for Movable Media. Movable Media is a content marketing agency working with clients like MasterCard, Proctor & Gamble, University of California and more. Movable Media works closely with not only talented and experienced writers, but with writers that already have a […]

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A few weeks ago I was approached by Movable Media, and through this new relationship, began writing articles for Proctor & Gamble. P&G runs the popular website Home Made Simple as well as P&G Everyday. I’ve been writing furiously, finishing assignments as quickly as their giving them to me, and I’m really loving it. Most […]

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I recently completed an assignment for Parents.com, the website for Parents Magazine. They asked me to make a collection of toddler friendly Christmas ornaments for them. You can see the completed pieces here — 6 Toddler-Friendly Christmas Ornaments to Make. Thank you Parents, always a pleasure working with Meredith Corporation. 🙂

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I’ve said before that I have several friends in the blogosphere, some that I’ve met in person, some that I haven’t. Cheryl of Tidy Mom is someone I’ve been working with online for quite a while but haven’t had the opportunity to meet in person yet. When Cheryl sent me this photograph of her beautiful […]

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I’ve said before that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many of my blogging friends in person. This year I traveled quite a bit, but in June my friend Heather of Dollar Store Crafts came to CHA in Chicago, my neck of the woods. It was great to finally meet Heather and Amy as well! Heather […]

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If you frequent craft and DIY blogs, then chances are good that you’ve heard of the Mod Podge Queen, Amy Anderson of Mod Podge Rocks! So needless to say when Amy sent me a picture of her adorable pug, Nellie, I was a little intimidated. Amy is my good friend, don’t get me wrong, but […]

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