AKA: how to use household items to make some super cute kitchen towels on a rainy summer day to give your kids something to be crafty about! 🙂 | oh yay studio - Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
This delightful DIY turns ordinary rocks into charming miniature versions of you and your loved ones—each with their own personality, outfits, and flair. I mean, can it get any better?!?!?! I painted these rocks to add to our front garden because I just love our little family and wanted to celebrate that with a some...| oh yay studio – Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
There’s something magical about watching a movie under the stars—the cool night breeze, cozy blankets, and the joy of sharing a favorite film with family and friends. And we are FOR SURE a typical Friday Night movie family! 🙂 With a little creativity and some simple supplies, you can build your very own DIY outdoor movie screen right in your backyard. | oh yay studio - Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
(aka: my new favorite tote/purse/bag EVER)!| oh yay studio - Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
OK perhaps this wasn’t my favvveee childhood craft (because there were SO MANY, duh)! But this was awfully close! I loved making these woven potholders – they are simple and wonderful and I think there was even one Christmas that I made one for every member of my family (HA)! 🙂 | oh yay studio - Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
I think theres about 90 names for this craft – plastic lace lanyard, boondoggles, the summer camp lanyard, jellyfish weaving and a zillion others! What do you call them? Because if you’re anything like me, you made a zillion of these very summer right along with my endless friendship bracelets 🙂So I for sure had...| oh yay studio – Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
This scrappy improv-style sewing is the PERFECT stress free sewing project that will end with a brand new, colorful potholder (and easy project that is even a great start for beginning sewists or even kiddos)! 🙂 All of my tips and tricks are in this blog post and I think you will fall in love with this improv-sewing for it’s easy measuring, non-precise cutting and forgiving stitching lines 🙂 | oh yay studio - Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
My daughter is a HUGE fan of her play kitchen (honestly, I think that the age of make-believe play is endless if we keep encouraging it). SOOOOO I decided that she needed a felt turkey for her “Thanksgiving meal” (DUH!) I looked online for a few patterns, and couldn’t find what I wanted (something with...| oh yay studio – Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more perfect Thanksgiving garland – HA! PIE! I mean, who doesn’t LOVE pie! And truthfully, this pattern is customizable to your fave pie colors or flavors to make this just perfect for your family or friends-giving gathering – and it’s an easy and quick sew (that could...| oh yay studio – Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
I am not much of a “tablescape” person (ie, I never plan ahead enough to gather all of the adorable and aesthetically cute things for our meaningful meals around the table. HA!) BUUUUUT this fall, knowing that we always host Thanksgiving, I wanted to make myself just a little something to help our table look...| oh yay studio – Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating
I LOOOOVE teaching kids are – I believe that every kid (and every human for that matter) is creative and I LOVE LOVE LOVE encouraging them in their creativity and helping them find some fun and joy in what they are making. I also have other things that I aim for in the art room so this year, I decided that I wanted to make these “traits” or goals or “classroom aims” (I know there’s a better “teacher” word for this but you get the idea)! 🙂 SOOOOOOO, using some shipping tube...| oh yay studio - Color + Painting + Making + Everyday celebrating