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Crocheted Earrings

Crochet some fashion earrings, from fun-loving cherry pickers or pumpkin earrings
to elegant high fashion earrings or crocheted wire stars.

Wine or Beer Candles?

What’s your pleasure - wine or beer candles? Both of these candle making crafts look real enough to merit a second look, and they might solve some of your homemade gift-giving dilemmas.

DIY Dryer Balls

If you can wind up a ball of yarn, then you can make your own dryer balls and, hopefully, ditch the laundry softener and dryer sheets.

Recycled CDs and DVDs

A round-up of great CD recycling ideas, from functional reuses to artistically funky makeovers.

How to Make a Shoe Chair

Instructions from 1877 showing how to recycle a cane chair or wooden barrel into a Victorian-style shoe chair.

Kid’s Diary

How to make a colorful kid’s diary from craft foam and printable pages, or cover a purchased diary with denim cut from your worn out jeans.

Sun Tea with Herbs

How to make your own sun tea, flavored with favorite herbs such as mint or lemon balm.

Lavender Water and Lavender Crafts

How to make lavender water, lavender hand sanitizer, lavender wands or bottles, a lavender fan and simple lavender crafts.

Have a Gift for Wrapping?

Is gift-wrapping more than just a hobby for you? Can you wrap even the most awkwardly shaped gift with brilliance and ease? If you know that you could never be “outwrapped,” then it is time to put your gift-wrapping skills to the ultimate test.

A Wedding and a Funeral

My apologies to newsletter subscribers and regular readers of AFC, because I’ve been absent a lot in recent weeks. Life gets complicated sometimes - and just when preparations for my daughter’s wedding in August were gearing up, my stepfather got sick. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer over a year ago, but declared [...]