Finding Christmas gifts for coworkers is a little trickier than shopping for friends or family. You want something thoughtful, fun, and useful, but you also want to avoid giving the same generic present everyone else brings to the office. Personally, I think the best coworker gifts have a little personality. They might be a clever…
There is something about a chunky cable-knit sweater and a pair of knee-high boots that makes a winter outfit feel effortlessly put together. The combination is warm, comfortable, and timeless, especially when you stick to soft neutrals like cream, oatmeal, black, and chocolate brown. One of my favorite ways to wear this look is with…
There is something about a delicate lace pattern that makes even the simplest handmade piece look special. I love how an ordinary piece of air-dry clay can become a decorative bowl with the kind of fine detail you would expect to find on something from a little vintage home decor shop. That is what makes…
For a long time, my craft supplies lived in four places at once: a bag in the closet, a drawer I couldn’t fully open, a stack of boxes under the bed, and a growing pile on the corner of my desk. Every time I wanted to start a project, I spent the first twenty minutes…
The first time I tried pressing a real leaf into clay, I was making a small dish, and I remember being surprised by how much detail the clay picked up. Every vein, every tiny ridge, all of it, from a leaf I’d grabbed off the sidewalk on my way home. That detail is exactly why…
I love, love, LOVE a tiny handmade house, and an air dry clay mushroom house is one of those projects that looks far more complicated than it actually is. With its rounded mushroom cap, little arched door, and tiny windows, it has that whimsical fairy-cottage look that makes you want to create an entire miniature…
Every September the same thing happens. I scroll through fall decor, add a few things to my cart, and then remember that I already own a garage bin full of seasonal stuff, a cabinet of candles, and a pile of books I’ve been meaning to do something with. The fall coffee table I actually love…
I have a drawer full of photos that were printed with every intention of being displayed and then never were. Frames felt like too much commitment, and sticking them to the wall felt like too little. What finally got them out of the drawer was something much simpler: a small, heavy clay block with a…
The first time I made an air dry clay jewelry tree, I was mostly trying to solve a very ordinary problem: I was tired of finding my earrings and necklaces in little piles around my bedroom. My rings had a dish. My earrings had a small box. But necklaces were another story entirely. They ended…
Hair tools are some of the most awkward things to store in a whole bathroom. They’re bulky, they have cords that tangle with everything else in a drawer, and most of them need to cool down somewhere safe before they can be put away at all. For years mine lived in a loose pile under…