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Knuckle Salad

Projects and Recipes for Creative Nerds

Kristina Ackerman 09/12/201406/03/2023 4 Comments baby, easy, gifts, sewing

Señor Bunzalez, the DIY Pacifier Bunny

Tired of holding/replacing a pacifier for your little friend? Sew him up a bunny-shaped handle, with just two easy stitches.

Craft Tutorials Crafts Entertaining Kids

Kristina Ackerman 05/13/201404/24/2015 3 Comments baby

Keeping it Simple: “Sweet Tea for Two” Shower Favors

A quick tutorial on a quick little party favor, perfect for almost any occasion

Craft Tutorials Crafts For the Home

Kristina Ackerman 01/22/201401/22/2014 1 Comment booze

Mercury Glass Barware DIY

Faux mercury glass apothecary jars from thrifted glasses and candleholders.

DIY vintage stacking stool reupholstery project, before and after.

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Kristina Ackerman 10/02/201310/02/2013 2 Comments furniture, vintage

Stool Legit

How I reupholstered a set of vintage stacking stools and lived to brag about it

Craft Tutorials Crafts Entertaining For the Home

Kristina Ackerman 08/12/201301/29/2020 3 Comments booze, home

Bottle Tops: Our quick bar makeover, with printable liquor bottle labels

Thanks to some swanky liquor bottle labels (which you can download and print), our bar is the belle of the ball

Craft Tutorials Crafts For the Home

Kristina Ackerman 06/12/201305/27/2015 13 Comments budget, decorating

Illumination Challenge

Can you guess what this DIY chandelier shade is made of?

Craft Tutorials Crafts Fashion

Kristina Ackerman 01/12/201306/12/2013 11 Comments budget, easy, jewelry

Falcons points! A shrink plastic text necklace tutorial

Make a word necklace in under half an hour. Here’s what I did to make these POINTS necklaces to wear to a football game!

Pretty cookies on pretty Christmas pedestals you can make for pennies.

Christmastime Craft Tutorials Crafts Entertaining For the Home

Kristina Ackerman 12/22/201201/29/2020 0 Comments budget, cheap, easy

Semi-Disposable Potluck pedestals

It takes like ten minutes to throw together these little pedestal dishes. Anyone can do it, and they cost next to nothing. Find out how!

Christmastime Craft Tutorials Crafts For the Home Kids Seasonal

Kristina Ackerman 12/14/201204/24/2015 13 Comments gifts, the great outdoors

Christmas is for the birds, but not in a bah-humbug way

Sprinkle the gift of birdseed ornaments around your neighborhood, making the trees and birds both merry. Oh, and here’s a window into my neurotic creative process.

Christmastime Craft Roundups Craft Tutorials Crafts Seasonal To the Nines

Kristina Ackerman 12/07/201209/18/2013 0 Comments christmas, decorating, holiday, holidays

To the Nines: Christmastime 2012

With just a few weeks to go before we achieve critical holiday mass, I’ve rounded up my nine current

Christmastime Craft Tutorials Crafts Crafts that Look Like Food Fall Inspiration Seasonal

Kristina Ackerman 11/29/201211/30/2012 8 Comments

Instant Artichokes

These artichokes are easy to make out of fabric scraps pinned to a ball. Also, congratulations to the winner of the Gangbusters treasury contest!

Craft Tutorials Crafts Fall Inspiration For the Home Seasonal

Kristina Ackerman 11/01/201210/07/2014 0 Comments decorating, fall, Halloween, holidays, home

Farewell Halloween, Hello Harvest: The Quickchange Holiday Vignette

Presto chango! See how we transformed our Halloween display into an homage to the harvest season without buying anything new.

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