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Summertime Entertaining Craft: DIY Natural Place Card Holders

Summertime Entertaining Craft: DIY Natural Place Card Holders

by guest blogger Mark Kintzel, designer Summertime is all about being outdoors and outdoor entertaining! When setting your outdoor table, create an amazing and unique tablescape by following these few simple steps. DIY Natural Place Card Holders You’ll need: Rocks (you can use small rocks found in your backyard, by a river, or pick up […]

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How to Make a Garden Hose Doormat

How to Make a Garden Hose Doormat

by guest blogger Mark Kintzel, designer As we all prepare for a great season of gardening, I’m sure you’re coming across some gardening tools that have worked all their gardening magic and seen their day in the dirt. For me, the time had come for an old garden hose. For weeks, I’d been trying to […]

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How to Make a Spring Garden Wreath

How to Make a Spring Garden Wreath

by guest blogger Mark Kintzel, designer Spring is here and what better way to celebrate than to make this unique and elegant garden wreath. To begin, simply gather nature’s gifts of the season and start creating! With the exception of the plants, I found all my project ingredients at an A.C. Moore craft store. You’ll need: A […]

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Mindfulness Craft Project: Photo Appreciation Week

Mindfulness Craft Project: Photo Appreciation Week

My mother was an art teacher, so I grew up doing crafts. And the tradition continues in my home. At any one point, if you were to walk into my house when we were unprepared for your visit, there would be tiny scraps of paper all over the floor, glue and tape stuck to furniture, […]

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Crafting Spring in January

Crafting Spring in January

by guest blogger Mark Kintzel, designer About this time every year, I long for those fresh-cut garden flowers—the tulips, peonies, and roses come to mind. Those are just a few of my favorites. But here in the Northeast, my personal favorites are still sleeping beauties waiting for that first breath of warm spring air. Although […]

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3 Clever New Ways to Use Mason Jars This Year

3 Clever New Ways to Use Mason Jars This Year

by the Rodale’s content team Mason jars. You can preserve in them. You can store food and dry goods in them. You can create easy meals in them. You can pretty much organize your life with them. But there’s so much more to mason jars than simply canning, eating, and storing food—including these 3 nifty […]

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Holiday Leaf Ornaments… With a Twist of Bling

Holiday Leaf Ornaments… With a Twist of Bling

by guest blogger Mark Kintzel, designer Here in the Northeast this past fall, the foliage on the trees was brilliant, and I really wanted to preserve that autumnal beauty and carry it into the holiday season. Finding the perfect craft project for my fall inspiration and giving it a Christmas twist was easy: I decided […]

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Autumn Craft: Wild-Foraged Wreath

Autumn Craft: Wild-Foraged Wreath

by guest blogger Mark Kintzel, designer I love creating wreaths for the holidays—especially foraged wreaths. Inspired by nature on a recent afternoon walk, I gathered oak leaves, hydrangea, ferns, Queen Anne’s lace, grapevine, wheat, and white pine for a rustic autumn wreath. I found that foraging for local plant materials was very relaxing, as was putting […]

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