Lifelong crafter Jodi Levine is a child at heart. Based in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons, her everyday life is a childhood dream, which includes tasks like making an Elizabethan princess costume out of coffee filters, making a parking garage for kids entirely of toilet paper, paper towel tubes, and cardboard boxes; and even crafting her own wedding flowers made from crepe paper.
Naturally, her love for crafting began early on. “When I look back at my childhood I realize that my path in the craft and lifestyle world was pretty much set from the start,” she told Mom Filter. “I loved making things and was always hoarding cardboard and other materials for crafts, planning parties and decorating for holidays. I pored over every women’s or lifestyle magazine that my mom bought and made a series of tiny, strange fashion and food magazines.”
Her passion blossomed into a career when she landed a job in the Craft Department at Martha Stewart Living, working there for over 19 years. “I always loved creating crafts for kids and pushed for doing the kids magazine at Martha Stewart way before I had kids,” she recalls. “I do, however, think that the ideas that I came up with after becoming a parent, whether for kid’s crafts, birthday parties or recipes, were much much simpler!”
Take a look at some of her original crafting ideas in the gallery below and follow her on Instagram for more.
