Tadaa Studio

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle"][/caption] With the long winters in Ann Arbor and the inevitable snow days, I’ve had plenty of time to do some kid crafts. This felt board has been a big hit with my son who loves to have me tell him over and over the well-loved The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and the story of The Three Little Pigs. 1.  We covered an old bulletin board with some batting to make it even and then stapled green felt for the ground and blue felt for the sky to...

I am always perusing the Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel catalog for design ideas.  I look at the pillows and think, I could make that for way less than the usual $75+ price tag. So after noticing the tone-on-tone and textured pillows were drawing me in, I tackled this ruffled pillow design and I am loving it! I made it up a couple in a variety of colors to spice up my family room, then decided it would make an excellent kit for all my crafty friends out there. With this modern craft kit, all the materials are pre-cut...

The artists of TwoTwelve (where I teach classes), have created some lovely and unique fairy doors which have been scattered throughout downtown Saline for a fairy door hunt. Download your playing card here and go out for the hunt.

It’s that time of year again when Valentine’s Day crafts abound. This year I decided to experiment with stitchable cards because they look so cute and there are many pink and red fabrics that work for this holiday. I started with blank, white notecards. Then, with a pinking shear, I cut out my design from the fabric I had chosen and taped it in the center to my card. Use a cookie cutter, a design already on the fabric or a stencil as your guide, if you do not want to free-hand the design. Next, I placed the card on...

So, I love the idea of chalkcloth, but the idea of writing with chalk just gives me the willies.  The mess of the chalk dust has stopped me from having fun with this fabric.  But this weekend, I found a solution, Chalk Ink markers.  The name is a bit misleading since they are not chalk, but they can be used on chalkboards and chalkcloth and just need to be washed off with a wet cloth. Once I discovered the markers, I was immediately onto a project, I've been wanting to do--creating a message center for the family so we can...