Bathrooms have to be the hardest room in the house to keep organized. There’s almost never enough storage, half of what you own is small and easy to lose, and everything from skincare to cleaning supplies somehow ends up crammed under one tiny sink. I’ve reorganized my own bathroom more times than I’d like to…
outer surface of a piece dries and shrinks faster than the interior, and that mismatch in shrinkage rate creates tension right at the boundary between the dry outer layer and the still-damp core. Enough tension, and the piece cracks to relieve it. Once you understand that’s the actual mechanism, most of the advice about speeding…
The first year I decorated my porch for Halloween, I bought a big inflatable, plugged it in, and called it done. It looked fine, I guess, but it also looked like everyone else’s porch on the block, and when it deflated into a sad nylon puddle three days later, I realized I’d spent real money…
I went through a phase last spring where I couldn’t keep a single real flower alive in my house, not for lack of trying, just bad luck and a lot of travel. So I started sculpting them out of clay instead, and it turned into one of the most satisfying crafting phases I’ve had in…
Every October I end up with the same little pile of terracotta pots on my table, the ones I picked up from the craft store for a dollar or two each, and every year I tell myself I’ll do something more ambitious with them than I actually have time for. This year I finally kept…
I fell hard for one of those glowing ghost wreaths in a home decor catalog a couple of years ago, right up until I saw the price tag. It was well over a hundred dollars for what was, when I really looked at it, a foam wreath form, some fairy lights, and a few yards…
There’s something about air dry clay that lends itself naturally to witchy, moody decor, the raw, earthy texture, the way it takes paint and mica powder so beautifully, the fact that it doesn’t need a kiln to feel handmade and a little ceremonial. I started making pieces like this for my own altar space, mostly…
A strawberry vase is a rounded, coil-built air dry clay vessel sculpted and painted to look like an oversized strawberry, complete with pressed seed indentations and a leafy green calyx around the opening, built to actually hold fresh flowers and water like a real vase. It’s one of the more ambitious projects on this site,…
There’s something about a little handmade keychain that makes even your everyday house keys feel a bit more personal. I’ve made plenty of small clay projects over the years, but keychains are the ones I keep coming back to, they’re small enough to finish in an afternoon, and there’s no shortage of ways to customize…
I’ve had a jar of seashells sitting on my dresser for years, ones I picked up on various beach trips and never knew what to actually do with. They felt too special to throw away and too small to display on their own, so they just sat there collecting dust until I finally tried setting…