The lovely Sarah Johner is offering up a very special giveaway this week: one lucky blog reader will win a handmade button tree like the one she contributed to Button It Up! This is such a magnificent project, I can tell you from admiring it firsthand that it is just incredible in person and covered…
Just a Monday round-up of things I like… First, I am so excited that Sarah, who contributed her magnificent button tree to Button It Up, is offering up an amazing giveaway: she has made another button tree and will be giving it away to one lucky blog reader! Hurry over to her Let’s Celebrate post…
I don’t know about you, but I am constantly battling to keep my zillions of tiny jewelry-making and beading bits and pieces from taking over my whole craft room. I never had a good system until the crazy snowstorm we got in December kept me homebound for a week, and I finally had a chance…
For about the millionth time, I wish I could be in a few places at once… and this weekend, I would love to be in California! We are planning a trip down there in May and I can hardly wait to visit these super crafty places and learn a thing or two. Tonight is the…
hello! I hope you’ve already seen lots about this very worthy cause to support, but I wanted to post about Baby Ike and his family here too… Rachel wrote today: By now, many of you have heard about Baby Ike here in Austin who is currently in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Dell Children’s…
I got a few more pieces of Orla Kiely’s housewares stuff yesterday and I just love it. As a bonus, it inspired me to clean the dining room — it’s deteriorated into a piles-of-mail and stroller-debris world for the last while, and that stuff is not nearly as fun to look at as pears are….
I thought I’d start off posting some fun button things I’ve spotted this week… I just adore this lovely embellished notebook cover project by my friend (and Button It Up contributor) Diane Gilleland! It’s such a cool idea, I especially love the circle pattern she did. The complete tutorial is posted over here and you…
I’m getting super excited about some new sewing projects, just in time for some really lovely craft books coming out… so I wanted to give a heads up that I’ll be doing a little review and giveaway at CraftStylish next month for two of my brand-new favorites, Jenny Ryan’s Sew Darn Cute and Kathy Cano-Murillo’s…
It’s been a busy weekend, what with crossing county lines and all, so I’ll be quick today and show you a shrink art project I did over at CraftStylish. I don’t know if you also became addicted to shrink art as a kid, but I still love making little things with it. Julian and I…
Happy birthday, Oregon! We’re off to Salem to celebrate with everyone, but speaking of birthdays, Andrew surprised me with the beautiful Sesquicentennial Pendleton blanket last month for mine. One of my treasures, for sure. Hope you have a wonderful Sesquicentennial, and a lovely Valentine’s Day wherever you may be!
Kristen emailed me this week about the opening she’s hosting tonight at Schmancy, I will never forget you. It looks lovely! I wish I could make it up to Seattle for the show, but I’ll definitely be there sometime soon. It’s been far too long, I had such a great time at her Plush You!…
I realized this morning when I was writing the date that today is exactly 12 years since I first set foot in Portland! Pretty cool. I came out for a three-week visit, loved it from minute 1 (in gray, chilly, blustery February — that’s when you know it’s meant to be), and moved here six…