Creating Your Own Punching Trough for Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide
A punching trough is a tool that helps you line up your book signatures for bookbinding. I've heard people refer to it as a punching cradle, a pricking cradle, and a bookbinding cradle. But no...
Layering and collage are fun techniques that you can use to make mixed media journals or photo albums. A lot of mixed media artists do collages for wall art or other larger artwork, but you can...
I got a dollhouse last year, joining the rest of all the crafting adults who love to "play" with miniatures. Making miniatures and decorating dollhouses is a fun and relaxing craft because it...
If you're looking for a relaxing (and practical) craft to learn, cake decorating might be a good choice. I was a professional cake decorator for twenty years, and I can tell you that there's...
When you're deciding on colors for a new project, it can help to look to nature to get inspiration. The colors in natural settings are a lot more complicated than they look at first glance, so it's...
While I've been looking into the topic of relaxing crafts for adults, I've run across a few different types of glasswork, including fused glass and lampwork. I asked Lisa, owner of Fuse Muse Fused...
