EKO's Crafty Life

30 Day Organizing Challenge  Day 2 Organizing the Linen Closet Results I am taking part in   MrsJanuary.com An Organized Home in 30 Days Challenge   and blogging about it here. Todays Challenge was to clean out the linen closet, I started this challenge a) happy because I have been wanting to do this for quite some time and b) thinking it would be a quick task,  boy was I wrong about the second part it took me the better part of the afternoon (and it is still not fully done!) Here is my starting point, one very messy linen closet. I have just been shoving things into this closet for quite a while now, this organization task was well over due. The First thing I did was take my winter duvet off my bed and swap it for my summer weight bed cover (should have done this long before the AC was turned on). Light weight bedding on for summer weather better late than never! Next I took out every thing one shelf at a time and dumped it on my bed to sort and fo

30 Day Organizing Challenge  Day 1 Organize Your Purse, Diaper Bag or Wallet Results As part of getting back into blogging I am taking part in MrsJanuary.com An Organized Home in 30 Days Challenge and blogging about it here. Well it was late last night but I finally went to my front hall and found this mess of purses and bags that I use on a regular bases. I took all these bags and looked inside, none of these bags had every thing I would need if I needed to run out of the house right now, they were also so messy it would have been difficult to find what i needed easily. A small clutch, a bag I took shopping, a bag with stuff for my kids and a bag with my wallet and some crochet...none are useful on their own at the moment So to Start I dumped every thing out on the Coffee Table. Next I put things I did  not need in my every day bag away. I put a spare bathing suit and towel in one bag to leave in the back of my front hall closet for last min

As part of my getting back into blogging I found this post that I had written a while back and never posted for some reason that I can not remember at the moment but it is full of little craft ideas that are great for house warming gifts. so I shall share it now  House warming Gift for a red and white kitchen. My cousin recently moved into a new house and after some investigation I discovered that their kitchen was read and white, since it was near valentines day at the time I decided it was the perfect time to do a little kitchen care pack for them and their little girl. This Gift includes a crochet dish cloth (hardly visible in top left corner) a crochet top dish towel (left) a S'mores in a Jar, a child's apron (right), all on a great serving tray and all tied up  with a bow and a chocolate lolly pop in the bow Here is the Apron I made for their daughter, it is made from a valentines day tea towel and some decorative ribbon used as trim for the top. 1.  

Hello Again Everyone It has been a long time since I have taken the time to share my Craftyness with you.  This is not because I have not been crafty but more because I have gotten busy and probably a little lazy also my place is kinda messy and often I feel some tidying needs to be done before I can take pictures to show and then well .... It just kinda falls by the way side. I have decided I am going to try to ease back into doing more crafting and more blogging, and the way I have decided to do this is by taking part in an organizing challenge on one of my favorite Thrifty blogs,  Mrs January.com . and I will try my best to share my results with you here on my blog. I have decided to share this here as one of the biggest obstacle I have when wanting to be crafty is not having an organized and tidy home, to be crafty in, so my hope is that by the end of June I will have a more pleasant place to be crafty and continue to share my craftiness with you. So who is with me? check o

Make Your Own Cotton Make-Up Removal Pads A Tutorial I have been a a de stashing kick lately and one of the things I have a lot of bits of is cotton yarn.  I recently renovated my Master bathroom and as a result I have been trying to de clutter and one thing I figured I could get ride of is the cotton pads and balls from under the sink (by using them) and replace them with a single set of reusable cotton pads that will a small jar on my counter and in doing so also save me some money by  keeping me form buying more single use cotton pads in the future.  As I was making my little circles I took some photos to share the process with you. Step 1 Create a magic circle and cast on 6 Step 2 Close the Magic Circle Step 3 Chain one, 2 Single Crochet in each Single crochet and slip stich to close Step 4 Chain 2, 2 Double Crochet in each single crochet and slip stitch.     Step 5 With Darning needle sew in the loose ends Step 6 Clip remaining ends Repeat as needed.

This past week was a week for re-purposing  some fabric to add some touches to her room. earlier in the week she asked me for a garbage can.. and while I had a few plain white ones kicking around that was just not going to do for her room so following the instructions to make the  Crayon Holder  I made last week, I covered an old garbage can that was not being used with a receiving blanket that was also no longer being used.  then to help her keep the bag in her garbage and add a little decoration I made a band  That I had seen earlier in the week, the flower is the same one I make for the flower hats  earlier this year. DD's Trash can for her used Tissues! she quickly filled it by pretending to blow her nose! lol! Then another project I had been meaning to do was make something out of my daughters out grown favourite shirt, I had a little fabric left over from the reviving blanket so I used that to back a pillow made from her favourite t-shirt so now she can sleep with i