by amiemccracken | Apr 23, 2010 | design, Jane Austen
Back in high school my two best friends and I had a painting business. We called it The Writing on the Wall and we even had business cards. We only worked for friends and family, but it was a lot of fun. We designed and painted rooms and typically we wrote a bible...
by amiemccracken | Apr 9, 2010 | design
I found an older table through a yard sale website. It was solid oak, and actually quite beautiful. But the spot it was meant for is decorated in white, black, and red. So I painted it. I really wish I had like five of these so I could do different things to it. I...
by amiemccracken | Apr 7, 2010 | design
One of the shocks of getting an apartment in Germany was the fact that they come bare. I mean really bare. No light fixtures, no closets, no storage of any kind. It was funny to compare to some friends of ours back in the states who had just gotten an apartment there...
by amiemccracken | Jan 17, 2010 | design
For our thoroughly modern and simplistic European apartment, I’m making floating shelves for everything. Including books and DVDs. So I thought I would build some tutorials in case you wanted to see how I did it. The DVDs aren’t perfect, but they work.1....
by amiemccracken | Jul 12, 2009 | etsy, i AM alive
Recycled Bottle Cap Photo Magnets Tutorial Part 2.You can see the first part of this tutorial here.Step 5.Glue the magnets onto the back. This is the final step, but I had to wait to put it up here because I was waiting for the epoxy to dry. The epoxy takes about 24...