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Do you love Crafts and other things DIY?
Good. Then you’ve come to the right place. Kim & Ink started this website because crafting is part of our DNA.
The first DIYing I did was papering my room in blue and white when I was in high school. A few years later I purchased a beautiful voile print and matching solid polyester, then designed and sewed a bed skirt and curtains and quilted the bedspread and pillow shams. It was beautiful, although I have no idea if it was the latest style. We only had the department store’s catalog for our style guide in those days!
But this isn’t a blog post. So, read the posts in this category to discover the evolution of Kim & Ink and the Crafts and DIYs we can’t help but share.
There are times when a special book comes along. A book like “1000 Gifts.” The book that inspires you to take another look at your life. And then you find the strength to begin a personal challenge. One that may be long overdue. A 1000 gifts personal challenge to be more thankful. To fight for…
Red Velvet Layered Cheesecake: our absolute favorite Holiday Dessert. We promise if you make this once you will want it every Christmas, and maybe in-between! A Christmas (and a Cheesecake) to Remember Did I tell you about the Christmas my sister and her family spent here in our valley, renting a large house together for…
Minimalist Christmas Village Tutorial.Today we’re continuing our tiny town DIY.Three more buildings to add to the Schoolhouseand Grandma Murphy’s Cottage. We started this project last week, in this post: How To Make Our White Scandinavian Christmas Village Let’s finish our 5 building village today. Just in time for Christmas… only 2 days away! Minimalist Christmas…
Christmas Star Piñata DIY: Individual Holiday Party Favors. Cut, fold and paste 3-dimensional stars filled with treats into una pequeña piñata! In this post we showed you how to make the 3-dimensional stars for Christmas nursery décor. While creating those stars we realized there was a lot of hollow space between the…
Today we’re sharing how to makeour White Scandinavian Christmas Village.Use your cutting machine, our patterns and some white-as-snow cardstockfor a minimalist Holiday look. Don’t you love driving around a tiny village in the winter, looking at the houses and stores with windows glowing and warm light spilling out onto glittering white snow? There’s no need…
Make these Minimalist Christmas Gift Tags and/or Place Cards to continue the 2020 hygge, simpler Holiday theme we all grew to love. Let’s talk about Christmas table décor. This year we’re all about minimalism, which the Scandinavians do with flare. So we’re researching simple, hygge concepts for our Christmas table setting when…
Here’s a quick and easy Scandinavian Christmas Star Nursery Wall-Hanging DIY, because baby needs some Holiday décor, too. Today we’ve got a quick and easy Christmas nursery craft. Because baby’s room needs some Holiday Joy along with all the rest of the house. (I’m not insinuating you need to spend time in that room…
‘Ink Re-Cap 158.Random Sketches and Scribblesabout mutton sleeves and a playhouse with a wrap-around porch. It seems mutton sleeves are a thing again. My City DIL came over yesterday and we had a marathon “Sew for Christmas” day. When the job is 6 dresses for 3 g’littles, your work is cut out for you. Erm,…
Starch for Your Spiritual Wings: Be the angel flying faultlessly in God’s formation, every fiber infused with the strength of the Spirit. This week, as we went about our kimenink business, my mind was going as fast as my fingers. You know how it is. You’re doing repetitive work, like tying 75 tassels for…
Make this Macramé Christmas Angel for your Holiday décor! Start easy with the feather keychain, which you can gift someone in a greeting card. So I’ve been wanting to revive my macramé skills since all these cute knotting ideas have been hitting Pinterest the last couple of years. I finally ordered some cotton cord…
Our Elegant Christmas Planners for 2023.Do all your Holiday organizing in one handy binder with our printable charts. Plus get the free Watercolor Holiday Menu Planning Printable now. ⇓ It’s time to get my Christmas menus planned, so I can make sure I have all the ingredients on hand that I’ll need. Plus factor in…
You’ll want to make all your fleece Baby Blankets with this amazing and easy bow-edge. Yarn, needle and scissors make a magically sweet border. We’ve talked about sewing with the Church ladies, like in this post, and last time I brought home a project to finish for our Christmas Baby Bundles. Every year…