Welcome to the Craft Room—a cozy corner of our simple living blog where creativity meets purpose. Here, you’ll find a curated collection of sewing, paper crafts, and woodworking projects designed to inspire your hands and enrich your home.
Whether you’re stitching up reusable household items, crafting heartfelt gifts with paper, or building small wooden treasures, these projects blend timeless techniques with modern simplicity. Perfect for beginners and seasoned crafters alike, every tutorial emphasizes sustainable materials, practical outcomes, and the joy of creating something uniquely yours.
Let’s make crafting a part of your simple living journey—one project at a time. Ready to get started? Dive in and discover how crafting can add beauty, functionality, and fulfillment to your daily life!
Since we homeschool we have the freedom to arrange our schoolwork in a way that works best for us. We’ve done it all… schooled year round with a predetermined schedule; schooled year round because that’s just how life worked out that year; started school after labor day, took holiday from Thanksgiving until New Years and …
We have some dear friends whose oldest son is getting married in a few weeks. Carl and I love weddings and try really hard to make the gift that we give something that is truly useful – something that goes beyond picking a gift off of a registry. Because sometimes newlyweds really don’t know what they …
On Friday afternoon Phoebe and I ditched all real work and made some baby shower gifts for a friend who is expecting her first baby. We grabbed some onesies and cloth diapers at the store and went to work. I’ve always used cloth diapers as burp rags, but apparently this has eluded Phoebe since she …
For the vast majority of our marriage, Carl and I have used a “cash” only system for budgeting our money. It works well, if we don’t have the cash for something we just don’t get it or we save until we do have the cash for it. What I haven’t done so well in the …
We, as in Phoebe and I, decided that the girls needed matching Christmas dresses this year. Because of their age difference, we had a hard time finding matching patterns. So we used several different patterns and altered them… it’s good that I have a thing for NOT following instructions. The rest of the photo shoot: …
When I started sewing, I really knew nothing. I knew I needed needles and thread, pins, scissors, a sewing machine and fabric, of course. But I didn’t really know what kind of scissors or pins to buy. I made a few buying errors along the way that served as teaching tools. I hope with the following …