Dying fabric with tea is great because for the most part you don’t need a mordant! Tea is rich in tannins which acts as mordant, giving the dye great staying power. Tea is still a natural dye so it will fade slightly over time, especially if you use stain removers or detergents with bleach. For […]
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Avocado Dying Crib Sheet
Last week I was given two large jars of avocado dye by my pall at @Backyardbedding and I showed you our ‘Ombre Avocado Dyed Macramé Cord’ project. Today I’m going to show you how you can make your own avocado dye so you can start turning your own house millennial pink. **So far I’ve only done 3 […]
DIY Barn Board
If you are following along, we are showing you little projects we did to collect enough interesting pieces together for our front hallway gallery wall. We first showed you our Quick and Easy Dried Flowers and now we are going to show you how to make a new piece of pine wood look like barn board to […]
DIY Montessori Pull Up Bar for Babies
When Baby C pulled herself up for the first time, it was an exciting milestone. A new beginning. From then on, there was no stopping our little bean. She went from crawling to cruising so fast! But we quickly realized she didn’t have much to work with. The only furniture around to cruise was our […]
Baby Skunk costume
Very few things we solidified before baby C was born. We decided on her name – although changed it a few times. We decided on peach as the color of her nursery, but that slowly developed into kind of pink. Abby still can’t quite admit she has a pink nursery, so we still say peach! […]