Easy peasy ‘gilded’ candle holders craft from Vanessa at Gerbera Designs. Some glass candle holders from the discount store, metallic duct tape, exacto knife or rotary cutter and you are in business.

There’s a really great crocheted flower tutorial over at applehead. For those of you working on your homemade holiday gifts, make these for pins, hair pins, scarf embellishment, present toppers and more. Easy peesy!

Want to make your own lace earrings? It’s pretty simple and I’ve even found a tutorial over at Minding Prismera for you to make it even easier. It’s really just a few easy peasy steps, so there should be nothing stopping you. Oh except that the biggest of all craft killers…procrastination.

I went looking for some cool ideas for making fabric flowers as embellishments for this bag I am making. So far, all I’ve done is bought the pattern and the fabric, but at least those are steps in the right direction to getting the project completed. I came across this great tutorial on Wise Craft for fabric flowers and it seems really simple and I the the fluttery effect of the flowers.

Make your own custom Moleskine cover using this great tutorial from Keyka Lou. I gave my husband a Moleskine for Xmas and now for his birthday I can give him a gift made with love.

Make your own customized paper bookmarks.  Figure out for yourself how to make them from the great images or email for the tutorial pdf.  I’m thinking about making some as promos for my biz.

If you are like me and are just starting out with embroidery, you must visit the Primrose Design Blog. On Mondays, Janet of Primrose Design posts new entries in her Stitch School series. She includes a tutorial with great images and tips and tricks only a pro would know. And she is a pro, check out her online boutique on which she sells her handmade accessories, home décor and kids stuff that are made from and inspired by vintage fabrics.

I’m not quite ready for the French Knot, which is the stitch depicted in the images, but when I am I will definitely be using Janet’s great tutorial! She has about 20-25 different tutorials of embroidery basics and of various stitches including the straight stitch, running stitch, feather stitch, and the lazy daisy stitch.

Want to make this cute little Zippered Pouch with a handy clear plastic outside pocket? I sure do, and for us sewing challenged of the world, Lisa of U-handbag has a great tutorial on her site.