D.I.Y. Your Own Portable Outdoor Kitchen
So it's twenty degrees here in New York, but we're still dreaming of warmer days to come. And we are digging these free PDF plans to build your own portable outdoor kitchen from Studiomama—we can see...
View ArticleCrazy Plant Trend of the Day: Bottle Cap Plants
My co-worker, Helen Rosner, online editor of Saveur.com, forwarded this link over and I have to say, these are ridiculously cute, if a little crazy. These kits, from Japan, come with a bit of soil and...
View ArticleEaster Eggs Stenciled With Herbs
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Using herbs and plants as stencils, you can dye Easter eggs with beautiful botanical patterns. Here's our step-by-step guide.
View ArticleThe Easter Tree
Where I grew up, the Easter tree was almost as important as the Christmas tree. Well, almost. But I still can’t survive an Easter without one. My mom has carefully saved our homemade blown and dyed...
View ArticleHow To Make An Easter Tree
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A How to make your own Easter tree, with hanging eggs from spring branches. Plus: Our tip for how to invisibly attach the hanging thread to each egg.
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Peat Pot Easter Baskets
These natural little Easter baskets are quick and easy to make, and you might find you already have all the needed materials on hand. The base is a basic peat pot, the handle is bark-covered wire, and...
View ArticleNotes from a Flower Farm: Floral Crowns
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery B Our flower columnist, Mint and Marigold, shows us how to make flower crowns out of lily-of-the-valley and lillies. Perfect for Easter or a spring wedding!
View ArticleFlowers by the Yard
One of the Internet’s many unexpected outgrowths is a textile-manufacturing enterprise called Spoonflower. The company started in 2008 with two tech-savvy guys and their wives, one of whom wanted to...
View ArticleDIY Tree Lamp
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Anna Laurent gives step-by-step instructions for how to turn found wood into a magnificent floor lamp: easy, inexpensive, and super stylish.
View ArticleHarvesting Color
When Rebecca Burgess was majoring in art history at the University of California, Davis, she had a disturbing epiphany: The synthetically produced materials she used in studio art classes were often...
View ArticleA Year of Dressing Locally
Members of Fibershed plant indigo plants, commonly used to dye fabric and yarn. read more
View ArticleCrazy Plant Trend of the Day: Window Box Car Bumper
Over at The Improvised Life, writer Matt Sumell sent in a photo of his car from his youth (from the photo, it looks like maybe the late 1970s or 1980s), when he turned the bumper of his car into a...
View ArticleNotes From a Flower Farm: Summer Shells
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Notes from a Flower Farm goes on vacation and gets inspired by the seashore's shells for her latest flower arrangements. Our step-by-step guide to creating arrangements...
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How to Press and Preserve Seaweed
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Artist Karen Robertson, known for her nature-inspired designs, shows how to transform seaweed into artwork that will remind you of the ocean's beauty for years to come.
View ArticleNotes from a Flower Farm: DIY Valentine's Day Posies and Arrangements
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View ArticleDIY Moss Terrarium
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A The ladies of Brooklyn's Twig Terrariums give a detailed how-to instructions for making your own terrarium.
View ArticleEaster Crafts and Decoration
We've put together a lot of Easter content on the site. If you haven't had a chance to read all of it, here's a compilation:-Decorating with herbs and daffodils for your Easter table.-How to make...
View ArticleFaux Fleur
There are those who sniff at the idea of fake flora, and there are those who don’t. But even folks in the former camp will find that New York City-based event designer and floral stylist Livia Cetti...
View ArticleDIY Sun Printing on Fabric
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Sun printing on fabric lets you use the plants in your garden to create beautiful patterns, and the resulting fabric can be made into clothing or a framed work of art.
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