Easter Round Up, From Recipes to Crafts and Table Settings

by Flora Caputo | Mar 24, 2015 | Crafting, Recipes, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic

Easter is around the corner, and my mother has entrusted me over the past few years to host it. In an Italian family, when the matriarch allows a daughter to host a religious holiday it’s like a coming -of-age. So I take hosting Easter very seriously. And...

Crafts: Make a Book/Library Themed Christmas Tree with DIY Upcycled Book Ornaments

by Flora Caputo | Dec 11, 2014 | Crafting, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic

So I have a problem. I love the holidays. And that’s not such a big problem unless you just keep wanting to decorate and craft things so that each room in your home will eventually be decorated with holiday cheer. But where to store all this stuff in an...

Brewing Spring Traditions #2: An Italian Easter Dinner, Revamped to Shabby Chic Splendor

by Flora Caputo | Apr 26, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic

Of all our traditions we have in our family as the weather warms, Easter and Mother’s Day are the most formal of them. As far as Easter goes, we Italians center our holidays around food (usually a meal that is roughly 5 hours long and takes a week of prep!)...

ENTERTAINING: Prep Day 3: Outdoor Nest Wreaths, Fabric Flag Garland and Tissue Pom Poms

by Flora Caputo | Apr 19, 2014 | Crafting, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic

Easter wreath, how to hereSo yesterday was a day of shopping with my daughter (she wanted to pick another Easter dress), shopping for groceries, and crafting our decor for our shabby chic Easter party.First thing I wanted to get done, was dressing up our urns flanking...

ENTERTAINING: Prep Day 1: Shabby Chic Easter, plus a Shabby Chic Eyelash Yarn Spring Wreath How-To

by Flora Caputo | Apr 16, 2014 | Recipes, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic

Today is the first installment of a week long series of posts around my shabby chic Easter celebration for Sunday. You may remember that I did a shabby chic bridal shower a few years ago and I always love doing shabby chic styled parties! I think in a past life, I was...

CRAFTS: DIY Holiday Yarn Topiaries

by Flora Caputo | Nov 28, 2013 | Crafting, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic

DIY Holiday Yarn Topiaries Supplies:  two floral bases, pedestals or small pots  two Styrofoam cones, about 10 to 12 inches high (in the floral section of a craft shop) hot glue gun or Aleen’s Felt or Fabric glue  A skein of yard, green, red or white  scissors ...