This week I took some time to look back my 2025 craft projects. I made 16 items this year (not counting flower arrangements or watercolor journals or oil pastel flowers — those feel more like habit creative exercises vs. completed projects). I recorded a video walk-through of the items in the order they were created if you’d like to see them in motion.

For the newsletter, I decided to rank my makes from least to most favorite. I will say, everything on this list I do love (projects I don’t love get started all the time but rarely get finished). But there is no question that some of the projects below were more exciting than others.

Enough chatter — let’s rank.