If you are anything like me, dear reader, you have some fabric scraps in your stash.  Actually, you have a lot of fabric scraps.  Of cours...

Summer is drawing to an (unofficial) close next week on Labor Day.... So let's enjoy a few more lazy days of summer in this fabulous f...

One of my new favorite places to go for fun and unique craft supplies that you can't get anywhere else is Daiso Japan : Daiso is a...

Ok, I'm still trying to figure these "ensembles" out: are these cocktail outfits for your everyday woman or glittery chicken ...

A friend gave me a small stack of retro and vintage cookbooks this summer because she knows that I collect them.  I set them on my cookbook ...

 

As I'm in a crocheting mood this ad "spoke" to me today.   It's from McCall's Needlework & Crafts , Spring 1978 ....

So I just finished this crocheted exfoliator/scrubbie today as a prototype project.  It's part a Red Heart set of free patterns called ...

Wow -- three years! Serendipity Handmade is three today! I can hardly believe that I am still blogging after three years (it seems ...

What a great idea -- to sew a bikini using decorative ribbon trim -- courtesy of this ad for Conso trims from 1972. There's been a few...