Arts and Crafts

Are you a shoe or fashion fanatic? Are you creative and enjoy custom-made clothes? If so, Colorado Shoe School is a great weekend activity! Established in 2018 and just a 15-minute drive from Fort Collins, Colorado Shoe School helps you “make your own shoes, with your own hands, from your own imagination.”

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Local makers onsite selling their soaps, fiber arts, ceramics, dolls, candles, miniature art scenes and other locally created treasures. Plus, free cookies.

I bought two different sizes of water beads, which promised to be tons of fun and grow to one thousand times their size after several hours soaking in water.

Get an amazing cup of coffee and shop soaps, ceramics, letterpress goods and more from 15 local makers! Also, FREE COOKIES!

There is an awesome concept where a whole bunch of art carts pop up every once in awhile in the same area. One is happening this weekend.

The 2015 Festival of Wreaths is a great chance for you to get creative making a wreath, with all proceeds benefiting Weld County School District 6.

These ideas take things dad already likes and makes them a lot more special and fun, just in time for Father's Day.

With the weather heating up and the school year coming to an end, I've started seeing more and more sidewalk chalk artwork in my neighborhood. I actually love it. Sometimes, you can watch an entire story unfold within those colorful marks on the concrete. But the days are only going to get hotter, so how can the kids keep cool while their sidewalk artwork unfolds?

Look at this super easy recipe!

Robyn and I have two good friends who got married (to each other) last Summer; and for months leading up to the wedding, they were collecting wine bottles. They would buy wine from the store, or order some at at restaurant, and always make sure nobody threw away the empty bottles. We soon found out they were going to use them to make their own centerpieces for their wedding reception. They turned out great (see above)! So I got to thinking...