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DIY Snowman Photo Ornaments

Cassie May — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:10:20 +0000

These cute reversible snowman photo ornaments are a quick and easy craft and make a great Christmas present for relatives! Today we’re making DIY snowman photo ornaments and I think they are my favorite handmade Christmas ornaments that I’ve come up with (so far)! We have a tradition of making some kind of photo ornamentContinue Reading

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Easy Tips & Techniques For The Best Acrylic Craft Paint Finishes

Cassie May — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:36:00 +0000

Get the best smooth, perfect acrylic craft paint finishes with these easy tip & techniques! I started painting furniture when I was in middle school. Not to give away my age, but I mostly learned from a few books from my local library. And Martha Stewart. These days most people paint furniture with latex paintContinue Reading

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Free Printable Craft Room Labels

Cassie May — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:58:10 +0000

Finally get your craft room organized with this cute set of free printable craft room labels! If you’re anything like me, my craft supplies tend to get a little…messy. I try to organize my craft room, and then the minute I can’t find something, it all goes out the window. Turns out, something that reallyContinue Reading

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Free Printable Popsicle Valentines

Cassie May — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:17:12 +0000

These adorable free printable popsicle Valentines make the perfect quick and easy DIY Valentine’s Day cards for classrooms or kids! Some years it’s hard to come up with a cute DIY Valentine’s Day card idea. My kids and I like to make our own. We enjoy it. If you do not, there is NO pressure,Continue Reading

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Free Printable Watercolor Valentines

Cassie May — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:53:28 +0000

These adorable free printable watercolor Valentine’s Day cards wrap around a fun watercolor set and make a great classroom Valentine’s Day gift! I saw heart shaped watercolor sets this year and thought they would be SO fun to use for Valentine’s Day cards for my elementary kiddo. The price per set was actually about theContinue Reading

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DIY Fire Hydrant and Poodle Costume

Cassie May — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:44:45 +0000

You can make this DIY fire hydrant, the perfect accent to any dog costume or dog themed party, out of materials you already have at home! How did I end up making a DIY fire hydrant, you ask? This year my youngest decided she wanted to be a poodle for Halloween. Who I am toContinue Reading

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Make It Yours: Customize and Personalize Any Craft Project

Cassie May — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Make any project your own with these genius tips to customize and personalize any craft project! In a Pinterest world, there are so many amazing craft project ideas and tutorials to choose from. As someone who comes up with these kinds of ideas for a living, I can say with certainty that there really isContinue Reading

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Craft for the Earth: How To Make Any Craft Project More Eco-Friendly

Cassie May — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:15:00 +0000

It’s important to think about the impact of crafting on the environment, but there are some easy ways to make any craft project more eco-friendly! As with all things, when you stop to look at the impact of arts and crafts on the environment, it’s complicated. You might think, for example, that of course, woolContinue Reading

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The Best Fun, Free, (and Safe) Online Art Lessons for Kids

Cassie May — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:14:00 +0000

Updated June, 2024 Learn how to create art with these wonderful, safe online art lessons for kids. These art websites for kids are fun, engaging and appropriate for your children! When I was a kid, way back in the dark ages, there were no online art lessons for kids. You could take art classes forContinue Reading

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Expired Craft Paint? How To Tell If Craft Paint Has Reached its Shelf Life!

Cassie May — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Sometimes it’s hard to know how long to keep craft supplies and when they need to be replaced, so let’s discuss how to tell if you have expired craft paint that’s reached its shelf life! Expired craft paint? How do you know if it’s past its shelf life? Recently I needed some acrylic craft paintContinue Reading

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The Best Craft Apps for DIY & Crafting Lovers!

Cassie May — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:15:00 +0000

Find out what craft apps you need to download NOW to get get access to the best crafty inspiration, organization & crafting fun! Updated May, 2024 Hey there friends! Today we’re talking about the best craft apps for crafty people! I mean, there are some really obvious ones that you probably already have if you’reContinue Reading

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10 Tips for Organizing Your Craft Supplies On a Budget

Cassie May — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:47:37 +0000

Crafting may be your passion but it doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby, here are some great tips for organizing your craft supplies on a budget! If you’re here, you probably already a crafting enthusiast. And you probably already have a decent amount of craft supplies. Hereafter those supplies shall be known as yourContinue Reading

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Compare the Top 5 Best Types of Paintbrushes for Craft Projects

Cassie May — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Let’s compare the best types of paintbrushes for craft projects so you can be sure your next project is successful! I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I’m working on a new craft project, the sheer number of types of tools and supplies can be overwhelming. I know for sure that I have stoodContinue Reading

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What Awesome Kids’ Craft Supplies Should You Borrow from Your Kids ASAP?

Cassie May — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Most people think that kids’ craft supplies are only for kids, but there are some awesome kids’ craft supplies that you should borrow from your kids for your own craft projects! Part of what I like to do here at Little Red Window is help you think about crafting with a more flexible out-of-the-box mindset.Continue Reading

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How To Host a Craft Party!

Cassie May — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:13:36 +0000

Get all the best tips and tricks to host a fun, relaxed, and productive craft party with friends! With info on everything from which project to pick to how long it should be! It will probably come as absolutely no surprise to any of you that when my friends planned my bachelorette party, they decidedContinue Reading

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8 Really Bad Crafting Habits We All Have (And How to Break Them)

Cassie May — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:16:40 +0000

These crafting bad habits we all have might be causing total Pinterest fails, it’s time to break them! Just like in regular life, we all have bad habits. Everyone. We all know it’s true and we all have a hard time breaking them, right? Well, crafting and DIY is no different, we all have badContinue Reading

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5 Genius Tips to Make Craft Project Cleanup Less Painful

Cassie May — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:30:00 +0000

Corral those messes and use these 5 genius tips to make craft project cleanup less painful! I wonder if there is a more universal truth than the feeling that the worst part of crafting and DIY is the cleanup. Does anyone enjoy that part? I know I don’t and I bet you don’t either. NotContinue Reading

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DIY Cookie Cutter Ornament

Cassie May — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:19:11 +0000

Make some adorable photo keepsakes with this DIY cookie cutter ornament tutorial! Not quite sure how it happened, but I found this cute DIY cookie cutter ornament tutorial just sitting in my photo folder, languishing. How could I forget this one! I love a project like this that just takes a few supplies like aContinue Reading

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Personalized DIY Christmas Ornament Ideas

Cassie May — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:15:00 +0000

If you need fun and easy personalized DIY Christmas ornament ideas, check out this big list, you’ll be making your own DIY ornaments in no time! Every year, we make personalized DIY Christmas Ornaments for relatives. I think many of our loved ones have reached the age where they don’t need more stuff but aContinue Reading

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Peppermint Candy Felt Photo Ornament

Cassie May — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:15:00 +0000

Make your own adorable peppermint candy felt photo ornament with just a few supplies at home, perfect for Christmas! Every year I make some kind or ornament, usually a DIY photo ornament, to give as a gift to grandparents and other loved ones. Last year I made resin photo ornaments that were really fun toContinue Reading

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Avoid These 2 Types of Craft Supplies At the Dollar Store!

Cassie May — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:15:00 +0000

There are a lot of great deals on art and craft items, but you should definitely avoid these 2 types of craft supplies at the dollar store! Ok, look, I loooove the dollar store. I know some of you have Dollar General, we have Dollar Tree, whatever you’ve got, they’re great for a lot ofContinue Reading

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Strawberry Fields Costume

Cassie May — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:51:17 +0000

This adorable Strawberry Fields Halloween Costume, is absolutely the cutest strawberry patch and you DIY it all! This year, when Baby V was thinking about what she wanted to be for Halloween, we thought up a lot of fun ideas, but eventually decided that she wanted to be a strawberry in a strawberry patch. IContinue Reading

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What Are Some Creative Ways I Can Craft with Old T-shirts?

Cassie May — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:00:49 +0000

We all have a stack of old T-shirts, what are some creative ways you can craft with old T-shirts? Here are TONS of crafty ideas for upcycling! Whether they’re old and sentimental, memorialize some kind of achievement like a marathon, don’t fit anymore, or have holes or stains, we all have a stack of oldContinue Reading

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The 5 Different Types of Pens & Markers You NEED in Your Craft Room

Cassie May — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:00:28 +0000

Here are our top 5 different types of pens and markers you need in your craft room to make all of your craft project dreams come true! When you think pens, do you immediately think of ball point pens? That’s what comes to mind, right? In fact, I rarely think about pens as a craftingContinue Reading

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Use Leftover Vinyl Scraps for These Creative Craft Project Ideas

Cassie May — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:09:57 +0000

Adhesive vinyl and heat transfer vinyl are expensive but you can use leftover vinyl scraps for these creative craft project ideas! I know, I know, saving scraps can be a slippery slope, I know I have to hold myself back from hanging on to every crafty scrap I end up with. But particularly with craftContinue Reading

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The Best Basic Embroidery Tools and Materials You NEED To Get Started

Cassie May — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:15:00 +0000

If you want to learn how to do embroidery, here are the essential basic embroidery tools and materials that you need to get started! A weird thing happens when you turn your hobby into your job…you no longer really have a hobby. A a result I recently started trying embroidery and I became hooked. IContinue Reading

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The 6 Different Types of Erasers You NEED in Your Craft Room

Cassie May — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:12:40 +0000

There are 6 different types of erasers you need in your craft room to quickly and easily fix all of your mistakes! If you think that all erasers are created equal, you are totally and completely wrong. I’m not kidding. And if you’ve spent your life only using pink erasers or the end of aContinue Reading

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Helpful Ergonomic Crafting Tools for Sore Hands and Arthritis

Cassie May — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:15:00 +0000

If you have sore hands or arthritis and have the ok from your doctor to keep crafting, here are some helpful ergonomic crafting tools! I have recently been dealing with a sore hand. I think it’s probably from knitting and typing (the two things I do all day long). But while I work out whatContinue Reading

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The 10 Different Types of Tape You NEED in Your Craft Room

Cassie May — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:15:00 +0000

These are the 10 different types you need in your craft room to make your craft projects awesome! Tape is a highly underrated craft supply. I think most people just think about Scotch tape which, honestly, is best reserved for wrapping gifts, it’s not really a look you usually want for a craft project. ButContinue Reading

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5 Simple but Clever Strategies for Craft Room Organization

Cassie May — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:15:00 +0000

These 5 simple but clever strategies for craft room organization will help you keep your crafting area clean and orderly! Organizing books and tv shows have never been more popular, in this age of constant consumerism, many of us just have too much stuff. But what no one talks about is how those of usContinue Reading

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