Craft Room Tour

Today I'd like to give you a glimpse into my craft room - aka my happy scrappy place! And it's not so much a "room" as it is basically "the entire house" ;) Click to enlarge so you can see exactly what's what: Almost everything I use to craft is stored in a white IKEA Kallax unit in colorful IKEA boxes, bins, baskets, and drawers. These shelves below are also from IKEA. This little section...

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You Are My Home Mini Album by Steffi Ried

The queen of mini albums (Stefanie Ried!) is back today to share a cute little book with a masculine theme - this week I want to share how my collections, even with lots of pinks and florals, can be used to create pages and projects about the guys in our lives by using certain papers and embellishments - with the occasional flower and pink thrown in there ;)! I have a lot of mini books about my...

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Big Picture Classes - Paige's Pages 11

Paige's Pages 11 just went live at Big Picture Classes! This is probably my favorite set of pages to date, I hope you enjoy them too! Big Picture Classes (or BPC) is an online learning platform for all things crafty, offering classes that cover all the fun and important topics about crafting, creating, and documenting memories that you'll need to excel, and then some! Get access...

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German Clock Museum

If the Black Forest region of Germany is famous for something, it has to be it's cuckoo clocks! We wanted to learn more about the history of clock-making in the region so we drove to the town of Furtwangen to visit the German Clock Museum. The morning view from the airbnb. Promising such a lovely day!! Anybody have the time??? Starting with Stonehenge (which is thought to be a celestial calendar)...

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Freiburg, Germany

After a fun time in Staufen, our next adventure was to the capital of the Black Forest: Freiburg. Pretty shot on the drive between the two towns.  Aren't these doors trippy? Freiburg is home to 210,000 people, 30,000 of whom are students at the local university. My people. Embedded in the cobbles in front of many shops you'll find mosaics made from river stones. These usually represent...

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