Creating Love & Healing ~

Create some love with this kit & on-line class, just in time for Valentine's Day ~
Love Birds Wreath Kit

This past weekend I taught this class at Absolutely Everything ~ so very fun!

As promised, the kit is available in the shop
If you pre-ordered they were shipped today ~ the rest are all boxed up pretty and ready to go...

Just about everything is included to create this beautiful heart wreath with love doves

and another fun & frilly heart project (it's a surprise) you're going to love

and this sweet carnation

Every step of the way is detailed in an on-line picture tutorial

Hope you'll join in the fun ~ and please share pictures!

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All over the globe people are giving and creating love to help the people of Haiti

Craft Hope was created by two big hearted moms who wanted to make a difference in the world by sharing handmade crafts with those less fortunate. I love their tag line ~spreading seeds of hope one stitch at a time. And, as if their plates were not already full, and their arms overflowing, they opened their hearts wider and created



As of this weekend they had already raised over $20,000 ~ that's a lot of hand stitched love!

Another sweet and amazing soul is Rebecca who created Haiti by Hand. Originally she created this on-line shop as a place for Haitian artisans to sell their wares to help women and children of that region, however, because of the recent devastating events she has asked artists from all over the world to join her in selling their wares to help the people of Haiti. I'm sure she cannot type fast enough to keep up with all the generous donations coming in.

Both of these efforts are donating 100% of sales to Haiti

Holding the people of Haiti in my heart ~ especially the sweet children

xo Heidi

"Love Birds"

To help keep the winter blues away...another class! This one will surely turn your world rosey pink, even if the world outside your window is bleak, cold & gray!

Love Birds Wreath
January 23rd
1:00 ~ 4:00
at Absolutely Everything
Topsfield, MA

If you'd like to sign up for this class, contact Absolutely Everything (978) 887-5047
All the details for upcoming classes and events can be found over in the studio

Hope you'll join us for an afternoon of creating!

I Love Coffee ~

I don't drink it, but I sure do brew up a lot of it!


Dyed coffee filter wreaths were the centerpieces on each table at my recent event, and were the raffle prizes. They were a big hit! So much so that several of the women ran home to dye coffee filters, and will be back here Friday night to make wreaths ~ and I finally got my dining room cleaned. Well, I guess we call that a blank slate, right!? The glue guns will be fired up and the glitter flying!

I've added the simple dying instructions at the end of this post. Be warned though if you make one, it's the kind of thing that makes guys question our sanity ~ not mine, he's used to this kind of thing. Please share, I'd love to see your creations!

Creating in the ballroom


The tradition of hanging cones on the chandelier continues...


Janet ~ you made my blog!
She's going to be so thrilled


For such a fabulous event, it's disappointing to not have equally wonderful pics! If you'd like to peek at more ~ you can see them here. Several of us were having camera issues, and the lighting . . . oh, this has been a sad theme around here lately (as you can see from the very blurry pics in recent posts.)

We got the Little One, my budding photographer, a new camera for Christmas that I hope she'll share (or I'll sneak when she's at school,) a Nikon 40D, lucky girl! Maybe Santa will bring me one too...

Have fun ~

To dye filters: Dip a whole chunk/section of basket style (not cone) coffee filters in 4 cups of brewed coffee, let excess coffee drain off for a minute, separate slightly and place in dryer on med/low heat for ONLY 10 min, check, separate & fluff and put on for ONLY another 10 min - easy! Don't worry if they are wrinkled - it doesn't matter. And please, we all know what heat can do to paper, so be careful! These dry very quickly when separated. You can air dry them, but the coloring will be streaky, not uniform ~ experiment!

Colored fliters: If you want a lighter shade, add more water - if you want it slightly colored, add tea (I used pomegranate tea to make a slight pink tone,) or add a drop of food coloring to coffee - blue in weak coffee makes a nice vintage robins egg color!

One chunk/section of filters is more than enough to do a 12" wreath - you know how they're packaged in several "chunky" sections in the package?