Tips and ideas for how to make a cool set of magazine holders to store your craft supplies or magazines! This DIY may be my favorite storage and organization project ever, since it was cheap and easy to do. Magazine Collage Mania Okay, you may be a crafter like me and when you decide to …
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I know that equal parts of red and yellow make orange, but what KIND of orange are you trying to make? Bronze or rust, apricot or salmon. So really, how you make orange? While I am working on my junk journal pages I frequently want to make a color for a background that I might …
I know that the primary colors blue and yellow make green, but what KIND of green are you trying to make? Sage or forest green, lime green or turquoise. So really, let’s find out how to make green! Additional Resources: How To Make Purple and How To Make Orange While I am working on my …
Dana White is Nony The Slob… and I love her so much! Her reality based organizing tips and ideas have helped make my craft room cleaning so much more effective and given me more space to work! If you are here you are probably creative and cool like me! I would SO much more rather …
Tips and ideas for Alzhemiers or Dementia caregivers to do with their loved ones (that are NOT children’s toys!) How to keep your loved one amused without treating them like a child. Keeping Your Dementia Loved One Amused Okay, let’s call a spade a spade, sometimes we want our loved one to do something without …
There are a million mixed media journal page examples on Pinterest, but sometimes I just want to flip through a book for inspiration when I am doing a daily journal page! This 1000 Artist Journal Pages book is an amazing resource when you are thinking about doing a new project. Using Art Books For Inspiration …
Color theory is so fun! I know that red and blue make purple, but what KIND of purple are you trying to make? Lavender or deep purple, more of a mauve or plum? So really, what colors make purple? Additional Resources: What Colors Make Green? and What Colors Make Orange? Just the other day I …
Tips and ideas for keeping a fun and creative travel notebook or diary. A travelers notebook is such a fun way to document your trips and remember all the neat things you did on your trip. Have you ever gone on a vacation and once home, forgot the small details of the trip? Or looked at …
I LOVE Thanksgiving! It is a time of year when gratitude and thankfulness are front and center of most peoples’ minds and being a huge thankful sap like me is okay for a few days at least! But if you’re anything like me, that empty journal page can be daunting, so here are some prompts …
Getting your loved one to lay down to sleep is sometimes a challenge! Here are some tips and ideas that can help family members with getting them to stop roaming around all night so they (and you) can get some sleep! Includes medications, natural solutions and practical advice. Why Don’t Dementia Or Alzheimers Sleep? Before …
If you have ever wondered how to make one of those cool pieces of art using magazine clippings, this is the post for you! Tips, ideas and inspiration for using cutout images to make neat combined artwork. Mixed media collage tutorial. Magazine Collage How To Video What Is Magazine Collage? When I started doing this …
As a solid member of the sandwich generation, I have two of my three kids living at home AND have my mother in law here too! And according to most projections, many of you will be in the same situation at some time, at least the “caring for your parents” part. Our Story Before I …
As a dementia & Alzheimers caregiver, you may be wondering why your loved one does the same thing over an over again. This can be something like asking the same questions over and over, or cycling through repetitive behaviors. Tips and ideas for how to help with repetitive behaviors. We Call It Cycling If you …
I was at the Back To School sales this week with my son and I saw pocket folders for 20 cents. I started thinking that for that cheap, I could figure out some way to use them to organize my magazines and ephemera for junk journals and altered books. 2 Pocket Folders, Letter Sized, Rainbow …
As an Alzheimer or dementia caregiver, there really is nothing more heartbreaking to hear than your loved one wants to “go home”. Whether they are living at your house or in a nursing home, that plea just rips at all the feelings. Tips and ideas for dealing with wanting to go home! Where Is Home? …
I have dabbled with dying paper and a few cloth pieces, but I wanted to find out ways to get different colors for my junk journals and altered books. Check out my research using pink tea, brown tea, coffee and even avocados to make vintage style craft supplies! The Tea and Coffee Dye Experiment I …
If you are looking for an easy way to do little die cuts for your scrapbooking or junk journals, I can’t recommend anything more than the Sidekick. As an adult craft junkie, this tool fits perfectly into my small craft room and works great! The Sizzix Sidekick History Isn’t it funny when you find out …
Here is my review of those cute little instant printers that are good for taking to crops or on vacation to print out pictures on the fly right from your phone. All my best tips and ideas for picking the HP Sprocket printer for travelers notebooks or journals! Other Printers I Considered I researched a …