One of the things that I am going to focus on this year is sewing through my stash both my fabric stash and my pattern stash. Over the last year I have amassed a huge collection of pdf patterns yet I find myself making the same patterns over and over again. That isn’t necessarily a …
Get Organized – Cleaning
Every new year I make the decision to get more organized in all areas of my life from cooking and cleaning to household management and decluttering. Nearly every year something happens around the middle of January that throws me off and I lose focus. Then December rolls around and I find myself re-energized to make …
Handmade Holidays – Sensory Activities
I absolutely love the idea of Handmade Holidays. It gives me a chance to be creative but also to give a gift to those people special to me that I spent time and energy working on just for them. Gifts from the store are just not the same for me, so why not do what …
Pumpkin Coconut Pie
Am I on the only person who gets downright giddy when it comes to Thanksgiving? It is hands down by far my favourite holiday all year. It is all the things I love about Christmas like spending time with the ones you love and eating lots of great food without all the stress of gifts. …
Gallery Wall Love
Decorating a large space can be overwhelming and finding the right balance of furniture and accents on the wall I find to be the trickiest part. Those things plus a lack of knowing what my ‘style’ is caused us to live in our house for over a year before anything major was put onto the …
Boy’s Sewing Week
Kids Clothes Week was a really great experience for me, it gave me a chance to stretch my skills, while also making clothes for my kids and trying patterns I have been putting off for months. I thought I would take the idea of kids clothes week and challenge myself to do a Boy’s Sewing …
Hospital Gown to Comfortable Shirt
Sometimes you when you are combing the racks of your local thrift store you pick an item simply for the fabric. You don’t even pay attention to what the item actually is but the fabric catches your attention and you know you will find a way to make that item into something wearable. Enter what …
Countdown to Gift Guide – Paper Goods
I am back for another instalment of our Countdown to the Gift Guide. Yesterday I wrote about my new love of creating children’s clothes and how I never though I would have gone in that direction when starting the business. Go check out yesterday’s post for a full rundown on the children’s clothes in my …
Countdown to Gift Guide – Kids Clothes
Oh Sweet Joy’s Handmade Holiday Gift Guide started today with some really amazing paper goods, you should definitely go check them out there are very talented people there today. If you want a sneak peek of the amazing things being featured this week go check out Kim’s pinterest board. As for The Nest Creations, we …
Men’s Dress Shirt to Fitted Tunic
Digging through my pile of thrift store finds I came across this x-large men’s dress shirt I had purchased and planned to refashion to a tunic for myself that I could wear with leggings and my favourite black boots. It is exactly what I wanted, really big and long enough for a tunic. First step …