As the days start getting warmer, I begin getting the itch to add some pops of color into my home to help cheer up the space. Tropical plants are super cute and in right now, and while somehow I manage to…

My friend is having a baby, so I swung by my local big box baby store. My family currently is just my hubby and me—so it was a new experience. Almost instantly, I was lost in the aisles.  The dizzying…

By: Nik Vandeventer For the past few years instead of choosing a New Year’s resolution I have chosen a word of the year. A word of the year is supposed to be an intention word, something that you want to…

My mom is pretty awesome, my first DIY hero. So many kid memories of sitting on the floor with some crazy construction paper creation—that required yards and yards of tape—while she whirred away on her sewing machine. She also taught me…

DIY Tasseled Instax photo Wall Hanger By: Nik Vandeventer   I don’t know about you but I take A LOT of photos, not only as a photographer but just as a human in this world who constantly has a camera…

Every spring I head to Ventura, California for our annual Craftcation: Business + Maker’s Conference. Ventura is one of my favorite California beach towns because the temperature is pretty much in the mid 70s year round, it has a great downtown…

When I was in grad school in San Francisco, my friend Paige and I had regular painting nights in her studio apartment in the Tenderloin. Paige’s apartment was so tiny that in order to have space to do anything, we…

Hi everyone! Joan from Break + Remake here! You’ll love this tutorial for a doily dream catcher and bonus, you’ll put it together in a snap. It was easier than I thought it would be to put it together. If you…

Editor’s Note: We’re excited to welcome Nik Vanderveter from WastingThyme for some guest posts. Nik is one of the craft managers for our business and makers conference Craftcation + she’s also a super talented maker and photographer.  P.S. – If you’re inspired by this…