I made a few versions of a button link necklace for CraftStylish this week… row of reds (using a few vintage buttons I especially liked), black and white handmade (using the shrink art buttons I made in last week’s tutorial) and the blue circles and blossoms version from Button It Up. This is a personal…
I absolutely love wearing necklaces, though they’ve been forced off my heavy rotation lately (since Pearl loves it when I wear necklaces, too, but for a totally different and very predatory reason). But I got to wear one on Friday when Michaela took me, Diane, Jennifer and Lee out to dinner to celebrate Button It…
Yay! CRAFT has posted my Loop-d-Loop Button Curtains as their free weekly pattern podcast today! You can see a very sweet write-up and download the complete instructions (with a bonus detail shot of the pattern)here if you’re interested… I love these little curtains — they’re quick to make and I had all the materials in…
Yay! CRAFT has posted my Loop-d-Loop Button Curtains as their weekly pattern podcast today! You can see a very sweet write-up and download the pattern and instructions here if you’re interested… I love this one — it is quick, easy and uses pretty much all things you have around the house. I made mine with…
I’m super excited that the Museum of Contemporary Craft has just announced the details for the Handmade Nation film screenings in Portland next month! It will show Friday, April 3 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, April 4 at 12 noon at the museum. Tickets are on sale now and pretty limited, so be sure and…
Today is the official release date for Button It Up — yay! Pearl celebrated with me by trying to eat the book! It is hers, after all… So I just wanted to update about a few button-y things. Now that it’s today and official and all, I’ve added a bunch of new stuff to the…
I’m so happy that today is the official release date for Button It Up! March 3rd seemed so far away for so long, and I can hardly believe it’s finally here. Hooray! This book is really for Pearl, since I wrote the book and designed everything the winter I was pregnant, went to the photo…
I’m so happy that CraftStylish is celebrating Button It Up with an entire month of button-themed craft projects! Such a cool surprise. I did the very first how-to, a fun little set of shrink art buttons, and there will be dozens more all through March. Keep an eye on CraftStylish for some wonderful craft book…
I am so excited that CraftStylish is celebrating Button It Up with an entire month of button-themed crafty projects! Michaela came up with the idea — it was such a cool surprise and I can’t wait to see what everyone is making… I did the first project in the series this time, since March 1…
I just announced the winners of my giveaway over at West Coast Crafty — Lyndsay and Hope won copies of Button It Up, and miss james and essymar won button stashes! Thank you so much to everyone who commented — your button stories and ideas and tips were really wonderful to read! So many of…
I picked the random numbers yesterday but haven’t had time to post until now… so here are the four winners! Congratulations! First, Lyndsay (51) and Hope (73) both won signed copies of Button It Up… Lyndsay said: “Congratulations on your new book! I can’t wait to see it when it comes out. And of course…
Oh, this is a busy week! I just wanted to share this photo of all the felt food from our swap this month… so awesome. I made 20 sets of the little tiny fortune cookies at the top and got back all this cool stuff for me, I mean Pearl. Thanks, everyone! (I put notes…