Sew a Reversible Microwave Safe Bowl Cozy

A collection of cookie mix in a jar recipe ideas for your handmade Christmas gift giving. Plus bonus brownie and hot cocoa mix jar recipes! In my home pantry, you will find Mason jars filled with what I call “cookie dough starters”, pancake mix and even small batch cupcake mixes. Besides making it super handy …

Find out just how easy it is to make epoxy resin coasters. Working with epoxy resin just may be easier than you think! There are so many beautiful crafts, jewelry, furniture, and even artwork that you can make with epoxy resin. However, truth be told, resin can be a little scary. After all, it’s taking …

Your source for the best Black Friday Deals for Crafters and Sewists for 2021. With great deals on Cricut supplies and sewing machines! There are so many craft deals and steals happening on Black Friday/Cyber Monday! Sometimes it’s hard to know who has the best craft deals. And whether you’re looking for crafts for gift …

This Shrimp Scampi with Linguine recipe is full of creamy, garlic, lemon and shrimp goodness. Although it sounds complicated, Shrimp Scampi with Linguine is a fast and easy recipe. We eat a lot of shrimp – probably once a week. In fact, there aren’t too many ways we don’t like shrimp. Actually, I can’t think …

Create your own personalized Christmas Ornament with acrylic blanks, adhesive vinyl and your Cricut cutting machine. Every year, my husband and I make handmade Christmas ornaments. Actually, since my kids were toddlers, we’ve been making handmade ornaments. In fact, I can remember making Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments with my mom when I was a little …

Learn how to sew Christmas trees with this free Fabric Christmas Tree Sewing Pattern. The pattern includes Christmas Tree patterns in 3 sizes. Use up scraps of fabric, dowel rods, wood slices and some embellishments. In fact, you can make your fabric Christmas tree as small or as large as you want! I love to …

Learn how to sew a large Christmas stocking with lining and cuff; the perfect size stocking for Santa to fill! Who doesn’t love Christmas stockings filled to the brim with toys, treats and goodies from St. Nick?! Christmas stockings have always been one of my children’s favorite things about Christmas. Their stockings were always filled …

Would you like to learn how to sew? Come learn all about Hooked on Sewing – the website that puts the fun back in learning to sew. One of the most popular blog posts on The Birch Cottage blog is a sewing tutorial and pattern I shared on how to sew a reversible microwave safe …

Use inexpensive items from your local Dollar Tree to create this festive DIY Dollar Tree Christmas Decoration. I shared a couple of weeks ago how I happened to stop in my local Dollar Tree and discovered ALL the Christmas goodies. Well, I picked up a few items specifically because I thought they’d make an adorable …

Learn how to sew a coffee cup sleeve. A coffee cup sleeve is a custom cup cozy without snaps, velcro or buttons. So, I shared with you how to make your very own custom coffee cup sleeve pattern and now I want to share with you how to sew the coffee cup sleeve. It really …

Learn how to make a coffee cup sleeve pattern so you can make a custom coffee cup sleeve for any size coffee cup. Last year for Christmas I bought several of the reusable Starbucks cold cups and hot cups. I then made sleeves in varying sizes to fit each of the cups. I then filled …

Download this set of printable microwave safe tortilla warmer use and care tags and include with your handmade tortilla warmer. I am busy making handmade gifts for our seven children and their families. One of the handmade items I’ll be gifting this year are these microwave tortilla warmer bags. They are the perfect way to …

Run, don’t walk, to your local Dollar Tree for Christmas finds like gift boxes, ornaments, wreath forms and more and all for $1.00 each! I happened to go to my local Dollar Tree earlier last week looking for some mixing cups for epoxy. As soon as I walked in the door, I saw Christmas decorations! …