Easy & Cute DIY Bookmark

...made with leftover cardstock, stickers and embroidery floss...

While these days I mostly read on my Kindle, my kids (especially my daughter) read a lot of physical books every summer and always like to have "special" bookmarks for them.

DIY Crochet Flower Keychains (pattern and tutorial)

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm sharing here a great spring project, just perfect to create small gifts or party favors, and also great to use up yarn leftovers: 

DIY Floral Felt Reusable Gift Bag

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm sharing here a quick and easy way to make a cute reusable gift bag: 

DIY Heart Ornament for Valentine's Day

Hello, and welcome! Here is a fun idea with multiple possibilities - you can use it to decorate your home for Valentine's day, you can make it as a gift or party favor, or you can even use it as a gift tag:  

Boxy zipper pouch - tutorial

Hello, and welcome! Remember the boxy school bag I made for my daughter at the end of summer last year (find it here)? Well, at the same time I also created a matching boxy zipper pouch, that my daughter uses as a pencil pouch. 

So today I'm finally posting here the tutorial for the boxy zipper pouch:

DIY pom-pom decorated paper clips

I've been busy making lots of Christmas gifts, but I wanted to pop in here quickly to share an amazing stocking stuffer idea:

 

DIY Reusable Tulle Gift Bags

These little tulle bags are perfect to wrap up small gifts, chocolate boxes and overall any kind of stocking stuffers. They are also very quick and easy to make.

 

Upcycled: pretty gift tags from cosmetic packaging boxes

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm popping here quickly to show you some pretty amazing gift tags I made using a perfume package box. This kind of boxes are usually colorful and full of embellishments and therefore perfect for these little projects.

Flat Keychain Zipper Pouch Tutorial

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm sharing here a quick and fun tutorial to make flat zipper pouches with a key ring. These not only are very useful to keep in your purse to organize keys, makeup and other trinkets, but also make great handmade gifts for the upcoming holidays season.

 

How to quickly line a crochet zipper pouch

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm sharing here how I quickly lined a pouch my daughter crocheted to be used as a pencil case.

Easy Lined Drawstring Bags - tutorial

Hello, and welcome! I've been having a busy couple of weeks, which left me almost no time for blogging, so I'm very happy to finally be able to share this tutorial!

Pretty multicolored granny squares

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm not sharing here one of me crochet projects. Instead, I'm having a proud mama moment and showing off these pretty granny squares made by my daughter:

Make a Mini Solid Granny Square - the video tutorial

I've been making a lot of these mini granny squares lately for a project I expect to be able to share here soon, so I thought - why not turn all this work into a quick video tutorial?

DIY keychain envelope pouch {tutorial}

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm sharing here the tutorial for a very easy sewing project: a small envelope pouch which can be attached to a keychain.

Small crochet basket - free pattern and video tutorial

Hello, and welcome! In a (not so) recent quest to use up my (overly large) yarn stash, I'm been making several crochet small baskets. Some of them I'm using to store other small on-going craft projects, others I'm saving to use as gift baskets later on.

In any case, after making a few I decided to write down the pattern and create a video tutorial too.

DIY scrappy envelope pouch

Hello, and welcome! Remember the DIY Reversible Quilted Placemats Tutorial I posted here last week? Well, after completing my placemats I was left with a series of small scraps, some of them just thin strips of fabric leftover from when I adjusted the placemat pieces to the size I needed.

I could have just tossed away those fabric scraps, but where's the fun in that?

Waffle stitch crochet headband - free pattern

Hello, and welcome! If you've been visiting a while you already know I love quick and easy crochet projects - and this headband perfectly fits both categories. 

Scroll down for the pattern and tutorial.

DIY reversible quilted placemats {tutorial}

Hello, and welcome! Today I'm sharing here a quick tutorial on how to make a quilted reversible placemat. 

I actually made these over the summer to be used on the patio table we keep on our balcony when the weather is pleasant enough to eat outdoors. But since they are very easy to sew and make great gifts, I finally managed to find a bit of time to post this tutorial, just in time for the holidays season.

DIY: granny square to jewelry organizer pouch

Hello, and welcome! Remember the solid granny square tutorial I posted here a couple of weeks ago? Well, in order to film and write the tutorial I actually had to crochet a solid granny square (obviously!), and then never bothered to frog it. It lived in my desk for sometime, until I finally figured out what to do with it.

How to crochet a solid granny square - pattern & video tutorial

Hello, and welcome! Remember the crochet backed tile coasters I posted about a couple of weeks ago? At the time I promised I would also share the pattern for the crochet squares I made, and so here it is - not only the written pattern, but also the video tutorial, which is perfect for crochet beginners.

These solid squares are very easy to make, the pattern can be easily adjusted to any size, and can be used to make bags, blankets and a series of other larger projects.