Okio B Designs

It's hard to believe another year has come and gone.  I'm welcoming 2013 with open arms as 2012 definitely had its ups and downs for me.  We survived Sandy and 12 days with no power - definitely a downer.  My 5 year old started kindergarten - both an upper and downer.  I could go on and on. My outlook for 2013 is much brighter and I've made just a few new year's resolutions that I...

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Drawing inspiration from Pinterest and Sissie from Sissie's Shabby Cottage, I made my first ever rag-tie banner last night.  I used a bunch of leftover fabric pieces that were taking up space in my craft room.  You know what they say about lemons and lemonade! I love the shabby look.  Makes me long for spring though.  Sigh! I just kind of looped and pulled each piece of fabric onto some twine.  I think there are about 50...

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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  I play Santa in our house which means I purchase and wrap all of the presents - even those for myself (isn't my husband lucky?!).  I only picked up a few things before the holidays for myself because I knew the after-Christmas sales would be better.  Yesterday, I took a trip to the mall to hit some sales and picked up these yummy candles from Anthropologie. I love the ceramic jars...

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Wishing all of my bloggy buddies a very Merry Christmas!  Hope Santa brings you lots of cratfy goodies! Jeanine Image courtesy of The Graphics Fairy. ...

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I cannot believe Christmas eve is tomorrow night!  I've been busy cleaning and cooking for company, but I did steal a little craft time to make these Alice in Wonderland coasters. Remember, I told you I had like a gazillion of these sea salt tiles in our garage?  I hate letting them go to waste so I broke out my stamps and added these great Alice images.  Once they were dry, I gave each coasters a coat...

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I still have a bunch of peat pots left over from the summer.  Since I'm still avoiding the chaos of the stores and malls (and still working with what I already have in the house), I decided to make a couple of new embellished ones. I gave each a coat of white acrylic paint.  I tried my hand at doing a mixed media one with the little girl.  The image is from The Graphics Fairy...

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