Every button bracelet tutorial online shows you the pretty finished product and conveniently skips the part where it falls apart on day three. You know the one — the elastic stretches out, the knot slips, and suddenly you’ve got a handful of loose buttons rolling under the couch. This happens because most tutorials use the…
Every August I get the itch to start pumpkin-ifying my house before it’s even remotely appropriate weather-wise, and honestly, felt pumpkins are the socially acceptable way to do it. They don’t wilt, they don’t attract fruit flies, and unlike that decorative gourd situation from three years ago, they won’t eventually collapse into a puddle of…
You got home from the beach three weeks ago, unpacked your suitcase, and forgot about the ziplock bag of shells sitting in a drawer or a car cupholder. Now your house smells faintly like a tide pool that’s given up on life. This happens to almost everyone who’s ever pocketed a handful of shells on…
Every September I get the itch to swap out whatever’s been sitting on my mantel since June for something that actually feels like the season is changing. Pumpkins are fine, but they’re everywhere by October and they take up real estate. Felt acorns solve that problem. They’re small, they’re fast, and they don’t require a…
Every year around mid-August I get the itch to start hoarding fall stuff before anyone else is even thinking about pumpkins. If you’ve got a button jar that’s been sitting untouched since your last project, this is its moment. A button leaf garland is one of those crafts that looks like it took way more…
Most seashell wind chimes have one job and they fail at it. They’re supposed to make a soft, clinking, beachy little sound, and instead they produce this shrill, nervous rattle that sounds like someone dropped a box of glass ornaments down a staircase. That’s not the shells’ fault, exactly. It’s a spacing and thickness problem,…
Every button jar reaches a tipping point. Yours has probably passed it. Mine sits on a shelf mocking me, a mason jar of orphaned buttons from shirts that died a decade ago, plus the truly mysterious ones with no discernible origin. A button-covered frame is the project that finally justifies keeping all of them, and…
