Welcome to the grand reveal of all the items in the FOUR limited edition Handmade Halloween boxes made especially for Gnome Decor’s Fourth Birthday Celebration Week! Each Handmade Halloween Box contains eight one of a kind Halloween-themed items I’ve made, and are perfect for treating yourself or giving as gifts. As you’ll see below, the designs are different in every box, making each one truly unique! There is a lot of spooky sweetness in these boxes! Each Handmade Halloween box contains: Halloween Gnomies Greeting Card Purrfectly Wicked Greeting Card Lots of Little Witches…
Hello Gnomies! It’s been awhile since my last post, but I’m back on the blog! Today marks FOUR YEARS since Gnome Decor launched! We’ll be celebrating Gnome Decor’s birthday week from September 30 – October 6. Stay tuned for new blog posts this week, culminating in the release of FOUR limited edition Handmade Halloween boxes you won’t want to miss! Here in central Indiana, it still feels like summer, so for my first post I wanted to share one of the things I was up to this summer! One of…
Spring is in full swing and Easter is already upon us! Every year I look forward to carrying on the tradition I’ve shared with my mom since I was little to dye and decorate Easter eggs. Yesterday we colored and decorated four dozen eggs, and both agreed our favorite eggs are the gnomes! We used the handmade DIY Easter Egg Gnome Kit from Broken Sparrow Studio to make eight adorable gnomes. Making these Easter egg gnomes has been our favorite creative activity we’ve done together during the pandemic. I’m already thinking about buying another…
Welcome to the reveal of all the items in the limited edition gnome boxes made especially for Gnome Decor’s Third Birthday Celebration Week! Each Gnome Box contains seven handmade one of a kind gnome-themed items, perfect for treating yourself or giving as gifts. As you’ll see below, the designs are different in every box, making them truly one of a kind! Five of the items are Gnome Decor exclusives and two are custom items designed by my friend Grace Turney at Little Gnome Art! There is a lot of handmade love put into these boxes…
Decorating Easter eggs turned out to be the perfect stay-at-home Easter activity for me this year. I went a little crazy, decorating 52 eggs total! Needless to say, my parents and I will be eating hard-boiled eggs for awhile! My mom also used several of them in her seven layer salad recipe, a favorite Easter dish of mine. This year I used a Paas Deluxe egg decorating kit ordered online from Target that contained nine different colors of dye, and an American Crafts Easter Rabbit egg decorating kit shipped from Paper Source that reminded me so much…
My mom loves to spoil family and friends with home cooked meals and baked goods. She is the best cook and baker I know, and I don’t just say that because she’s my mom! With February 14 just 14 days away, I thought I’d share her quick and easy recipe for heart-shaped brownies topped with strawberry icing and drizzled with Ghirardelli chocolate. These brownies are so yummy, and the juice from the strawberries gives the icing a nice flavor and pink color without the use of food coloring. You can’t go…
October 5 UPDATE! We have a winner! Katie Camden won the set of three handmade seasonal cards! Thank you to everyone who entered! Our second birthday celebration wouldn’t be complete without a giveaway! Win this set of three handmade greeting cards featuring a card you can use each month for the rest of this year. There is a Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas card included in the set. Cards come with envelopes and are blank inside for your greeting. You can enter up to three times for a chance to win. Choose one, two …
Happy Spring! Today I’m sharing my Easter eggs I made this year in a late night egg dyeing and decorating session the evening before Easter with my Mom. Because Easter weekend was busy with Fairyville and family Easter activities, I kept my eggs pretty simple this year and didn’t go overboard with techniques. I added stickers to a lot of the eggs, my favorite way to decorate dyed eggs quickly. I tried a few new metallic effects, and also used a super cute Easter Animals egg decorating kit by Paper Source to make some fast and…
March roared in like a lion, with snow and cold temperatures, but I’m hopeful that spring will be here soon! I consider St. Patrick’s Day the first Spring holiday on the calendar. All of the green reminds me that the landscape will be greening up soon and one of my favorite annual spring events, the Indianapolis Flower and Patio show, falls around St. Patrick’s Day. Today I’m sharing a quick and simple Irish fairy garden I made to display in my living room. I can’t take credit for this idea…
Lately I’ve been working on several custom orders, which I love to do because they stretch my creativity and give me an opportunity to work on projects I might not otherwise make. I love a challenge! The first of this latest round of custom order requests was a couple months ago. Ashley contacted me about designing personalized cards to give to her friends she was going to ask to be bridesmaids in her upcoming wedding. I wasn’t sure where to start with design options, so I did what I always do in that situation…
Brr… it’s cold out! Here in central Indiana, we’re feeling the effects of the polar vortex that’s affecting a lot of the U.S. and Canada right now. Our high temperature is supposed be below zero tomorrow and I don’t even want to think about the wind chill. January has definitely been a wintry month after a mild December. My friend Rebecca first told me about frozen bubbles in January 2014, another unforgettable record cold and snowy month. She linked me to an article (the link is now broken) about a…
I saw special markers used to color snow on Facebook recently. I had no idea such a thing existed so I looked them up on Amazon out of curiosity. I really had no desire to color snow but it got me thinking there might be other cool toys or gadgets out there that would be fun to play with in the snow. While searching, I stumbled across some snow molds that caught my attention, especially a gnome mold which was included in a set of five characters. They reminded me of the brick maker molds I used to build snow…
Happy New Year! I hope your 2019 is off to a great start! My vacation days from work are almost over, and I’m not looking forward to getting back to the grind. It’s been nice celebrating the holidays with family, staying up all night, spending more time at home with Flurry, blogging, and decorating gingerbread! When I was shopping for a gingerbread house kit for Christmas this year, I bought two, because I thought the Wilton Ready-to-Decorate Dazzling Gingerbread House Decorating Kit would make a perfect New Year’s gingerbread house! The shimmer…
Merry Christmas! I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday filled with all of your favorite things, including your favorite sweet treats. This Christmas season flew by faster than any other for me. I didn’t get a lot of things done before December 25 that I wanted to, and I’m determined to plan better for next year. But I did make gingerbread cookies and a gingerbread house, one of my favorite traditions. I love the way gingerbread tastes, and I especially love the decorating opportunities it offers. I love to pore over elaborate gingerbread cookie…
Today’s fall craft tutorial is brought to you courtesy of my crafty Mom. She showed me the two pretty pumpkins pictured above she had made and I was wowed by how she had turned a simple foam pumpkin from the dollar store into a beautiful fall decoration, using mostly supplies she already had on hand. I told her she’d have to show me how to make one, so we set up a mother-daughter craft day last weekend to make her third pumpkin and my first. These are really fun to make (as long as you…