This is a really easy project that jazzes up any piece of clothing that needs buttons or if you need your coats cinched in. No sewing machine required.

Make a Smilebox postcard

Video Intro (including how to pick a good vintage piece):

How to Make Cover Buttons and a Cinched Back, a Step by Step Tutorial:

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Ronnie the Robot and Wild Warren having a picnic

I just made these guys and I don’t know if it’s their silly faces or big lovey hearts but they keep making me smile!  They are currently staying on our couch as guests but will soon be shipped off to friends as presents.  I’m also making more and have put them up for adoption via my ETSY shop.  Buy one for your little loved one for Christmas!

betty draper meets alfred hitchcock

For Halloween this year I was Betty Draper from Madmen.  Here’s a Hitchcock-esque photo shot (with a fake cigarette!) taken in our kitchen.  When posted on facebook, I received queries as to where we got our curtains so I thought I’d post how I made them here.  They were inspired by Design Sponge’s project but I appropriated it to make it easier (see simple tutorial below).

HOW TO MAKE THE CURTAINS: