just a quick post since I’m wrangling an under-the-weather little baby, but if you’re in Portland and up for saying hi and making yourself a set of button hairclips, I’d love to see you at my Powell’s event tomorrow… I’m nervous and excited about it at the same time! In non-button news, I’m so glad…
I’ve been making lots of button hairclips as samples to show at my Powell’s event Friday night, and thought I’d wear these green ones out and about today in honor of St Patrick’s Day… In other colorful news, a mini-tutorial I wrote for CRAFT’s Mending Month is up! It shows a very simple way to…
I have a new craft book out this month, Button It Up, and I’m planning some crafty events to celebrate! It has 80 projects to make with vintage (and new) buttons — plenty of jewelry, plus housewares, gifts, accessories, and embellishments — along with a techniques and materials section, a resources guide, and a short…
I made some button hairpins in the style of the Shiny Set (page 136) for samples to show at my Powell’s event this Friday night… here they are in progress with the glue drying. Hopefully I’ll have an action shot of them accessorizing something pretty soon! There are a few more pictures from our little…
I wanted to share this covered button project I did for this week’s CraftStylish post — I used a favorite Denyse Schmidt print from the Katie Jump Rope collection, which always reminds me of making my quilt. Anyway, it was a fun one to do and I hope you like it! Speaking of CraftStylish, I…
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!
Hey! I hope you can stand one more round of cross-posting over here and yes, a little more button talk. I’ve been trying to do most of it over at the Button It Up site, but since my first book event is next week(!) I wanted to officially invite you all to come make crafty…
I’m getting excited about my two upcoming button book events here in Portland — the supplies I’ve ordered are arriving and I’ve been making my sample magnets and hairpins to show… so I thought I’d try picnik-ing* a a little invite! And as I’ve been getting everything ready, I was thinking that it would be…
Wow, I just saw Cathy‘s episode of the Martha Stewart Show and it was just wonderful! Cathy was fantastic — she and Martha made ribbon straw flowers (you can see a written how-to here and find Cathy’s vintage loom kits here) and chatted, we got to see Martha draw and watercolor a new Lilly Pulitzer…
I’ve been putting together my little button bags for the Bolt book event this morning! It’s been fun sorting through trays of buttons and picking a mix of all different colors and sizes to put together. Each person who buys a book at the shop will get to choose a tiny goody bag of buttons…
Yay, I get to brag on my friends today! First, I wanted to mention that Cathy Callahan (aka Cathy of California) is going to be on the Martha Stewart Show tomorrow!! This picture is from Renegade Brooklyn (summer 2006) when we visited Erika Kern‘s booth and admired her absolutely incredible embroidered Martha portrait. (I’m happy…