Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Today, Shabbat was actually the 17th of Tammuz, a fast day on the Jewish calendar, but since minor fasts never occur on Shabbat, the fast and mourning are pushed off until Sunday. The 17th of Tammuz is the day that marks the beginning of “The Three Weeks” a period of mourning leading up to Tisha B’Av. Take a look at all the crafts in the archives to remember Jerusalem, which is what this period is all about.

As you can see from lack of crafting posts on the blog I have been totally and completely occupied with other aspects of life, but happy to say mostly creative ones, and ones that involve totally cleaning out and refurbishing an entire floor of our home…….which as you can imagine is a project that iinvolves more time than one actually has. Not to mention that w are doing the project on a very accelerated schedule and all purchases involve traveling for at least an hour by car, phew. No complaints, and some day I hope the results will be picture worthy, so stay tuned for that. In the meant time, hope you are having a creative summer, and enjoy the amazing features from last week’s party:

A totally amazing pineapple wall art made from crepe paper flowers (that look like silk ones from afar!) from pillar box blue.

A fabulous knit selfie from ginx crafts.

LOVE this finger knitting or spool knitting name with cactus, fabulous, from howling at the moon.

A fun crocheted ice cream cone scarf from sew crafty crochet.

And a crocheted cactus from anne marie haak blog, and a fantastic crocheted stitch from frau tschi tschi.

A super sweet zig zag crocheted baby blanket from sew crafty crochet, which was part of a de-stash challenge, and a lovely lacy crocheted vest from anna simple crochet.

A great recycled bottle vase centerpiece, laboratory style, from create and babble

Rain on a tin roof has a bunch of really great examples of how to upcycle inherited furniture.

Two DIY paint finishes for upcycling furniture: a beach weathered paint finish from rain on a tin roof, and a boho finish from duct tape and denim.

How to decorate your table for fourth of July, complete with trophies and American flags, from celebrating everyday life.
How to recover barstools from dazzle while frazzled, and how to lay a brick patio from scrap shoppe blog.
Fun baseball themed treat bags from dazzle while frazzled, and a fun bird stencil on an upcycled wooden chest makes a great toy chest, from rain on a tin roof.
A great looking deck and ideas for how to decorate your deck this summer, from clean and scentsible.