Fall is a pleasant time of year with it’s beautiful colors and the nostalgic crunch of dry leaves underfoot. It’s also the time when wind begins to blow and the temperatures start dipping–and that’s when I start thinking about how to keep the precious heat that I pay for inside the house where it belongs!… Keep Reading
DIY Multi Holiday Table Runner
For some reason the fall is a time when I want to pull out my sewing machine and make something! So when Walmart gave me a Thanksgiving Craft Challenge and asked me to do a fall/Thanksgiving craft of my choice, I decided I just HAD to do a sewing project. But why do a project… Keep Reading
DIY: Porch Snowflakes!
It’s winter craft time here at Frugal Upstate and Walmart challenged me to come up with a new take on paper snowflakes. It was perfect–for several years I’ve been wanting to decorate my porch with some sort of “snowflake” theme in January–something to combat the post Christmas decorating “blahs”. That’s exactlg why I had used… Keep Reading
DIY Decorator Snowballs for Winter
I’ve been having a ton of fun decorating my “branch” display in the front entry. Last week I made some cool snowflakes to decorate it with a winter theme. So I got it into my head that I needed to put snowballs into the hopper of the scale. But how to make them? It had… Keep Reading
Decorating with Snowflakes
I just hate how empty and forlorn the house looks when I take my Christmas decorations down. After all that color and glitter it’s a really big let down. This year I decided I had to do at least a little something to tide me over from Christmas until it was time to do some… Keep Reading
