This weekend (the Handmade Nation premiere and panel, Crafty Wonderland‘s big 3rd birthday, lovely crafty friends in town, the Final Four games and Carolina’s victory, the Blazers clinching the playoffs) was amazing but I am in a whirlwind of tying up loose ends and finishing work and planting things, and my writing just for fun…
The button hairclip video is already up from this morning’s episode of AM Northwest — just click “crafting with buttons” on their front page and you can check it out if you’d like. Wow, that was fast! They showed off a few of my book projects and then I made three hairclips — a solo…
It’s so beautifully sunny today! Everything looks so colorful and new… And it’s supposed to be rainy all weekend, perfect for sorting buttons and watching lots and lots of basketball games. See you on Monday!
My tutorial to make a felt fortune cookie and matching ring (the little secret spin-off I hinted about last week) just went up at CraftStylish! If you have a minute to check it out, I’d love to hear what you think. Here’s a look at my set, I do like that little ring… Speaking of…
Sarah took me to the Blazers game last night (a surprising victory over the Pistons — woo hoo!) and surprised me with this excellent hand-screened Channing Frye shirt. So cool! I’m hoping it isn’t really cursed… In a nutshell for the crafty multitudes who are not Blazers fans, Channing kind of translates everything I love…
Hooray, my gocco inks and supplies came (from the highly recommended, super nice Northwood Studios) and Sarah, Caitlin and I are going to re-print my election postcards this afternoon! I’m excited to print another round. I’m heading out to get another paper color shortly… as much as I love red sparkle it’s time for a…
I was still working on Pearl’s scarf on Halloween afternoon (by far the most time-consuming part of my crafting, I am the slowest knitter on earth), but I finally finished it, a half-hour after we were supposed to meet up with Andrew downtown for a little-kid costume party (oops). We made it fashionably late and…
I can hardly believe that we’re well into October! Halloween feels like it’s right around the corner. I’m making a costume for Pearl (well, I should say that I have thought of a costume, and gotten the things to make it, but I haven’t actually done anything yet…) and getting pretty excited about it all….
We woke up to a nice little coat of fresh snow on the ground, so it’s been a bit more tough than usual to buckle down and get all my chores, I mean freelance work, done today. And I’m really looking forward to Andrew’s lecture tonight, but I have a decent-sized to-do list to conquer…
I recently got a note from Ellen, who is working on a very cool project: I’m a high school student in San Francisco organizing a scarf drive in the city. You know, folks knit scarves, donate them, we get them to folks in need. (In this case, they’re being donated to the Bay Area Rescue…