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Clothespin Creation: How to Build a Clothespin

September 26, 2014 By Hilary Jones 1 Comment

Clothespin Creation: How to Build a Clothespin

People are quite curious about how we make clothespins. When we share with people what we make most people look at the pins with a confused look and ask “You made this?”

Side by Side
Side by Side

Here are the basic steps to building our clothespins. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Business Adventures, Crafts and Creative Activites, Screwy Carpenter Projects, The Screwy Carpenter Tagged With: classic clothespins, clothespin, DIY, Handcrafted Clothespins, torsion-spring, Wooden Clothespins

DIY Light Table: Transferring Designs

August 24, 2014 By Hilary Jones 2 Comments

DIY Light Table: Transferring Designs

As many of you know I began to embroider this last winter. My goal was to create pieces that I could frame. I enjoyed my beginning pillow cases but I am not really into fancy towels or pillow cases.

I really  wanted my focus to be artwork that I could hang on the wall. I didn’t want my embroidery to be limited to preprinted patterns. So, that meant I needed an easy method to transfer a pattern from a piece of paper onto a piece of fabric.  [Read more…]

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DIY Swingset

May 25, 2014 By Hilary Jones Leave a Comment

DIY Swingset

The kids (especially my oldest) LOVE  LOVE swings. In all our previous homes they have had swings to play on but when we came here they didn’t. So, that quickly was put on the to do list of future projects. This last couple days the swings went up…. [Read more…]

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Dryer Lint Fire Starters

December 14, 2013 By Hilary Jones 2 Comments

Dryer Lint Fire Starters

I am happy to announce we are up and running again…(well mostly). We at least have a working home computer and I can begin blogging again on a limited basis! Yes, I know I could have been Super Blogger and gone to the library to write with my three kids in tow, but really?… I decided on being just a good Mom. Super Blogger will just have to be put on pause… So, time to have some fun and share a project… [Read more…]

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