I’ve got about a half-hour before I run over to the museum for the crafty panel thing and just wanted to say hi! We’re crossing our fingers and waiting patiently until some polls start closing and some results start rolling in… Pearl is wearing her beautiful hand-screened shirt from Rachel that we saved just for…
With Pearl’s Halloween costume finished (thank you for the sweet comments!) I finally had a minute to think about making my day of the dead altar. We’ve lived in three different places in the last three years, so I don’t exactly have a traditional place for it — but now that we have a fireplace…
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 wanted to preview some crafty stuff I’m excited about this week, and I’d love to see you at one of these events if you can make it. Please spread the word! Next Tuesday (yes, election day!) Cathy Pitters, Justin Hocking, Diane Gilleland and I will be part of a round table discussion at Contemporary…
I have been struggling to get my mind off Halloween (I’m still not finished with Pearl’s costume, naturally) and the election (shirts and onesie sent out, donation made, and fingers crossed!) so I can put some thought into making my Day of the Dead altar this weekend. Easier said than done with the sticky factor…
Thanks so much for the awesome and enthusiastic comments on my screenprinting for change post last week! I was so happy to read them and glad that some folks are liking the craftivism posts (you never can tell with these things). The five package-winners are Jacinda, Elizabeth H., nyjlm, jessica, and amy zimmer, and I…
The screenprinting for change party was awesome! We had a capacity crowd of Obamans, printed up dozens and dozens of shirts, goccoed a round of cards for everyone, and raised a couple hundred dollars for the Obama campaign. Sarah and Josh even shipped 24 pounds of specially designed and printed Ohio shirts off as a…
We went today with Pearl and got apples, artichokes, zucchini, spinach, walla wallas, chanterelles, chard, peppers, brussels sprouts, snap peas, broccoli, green onions, and bagels. I’m so excited to make dinner tonight!
If you are in Portland and interested in getting into a little gocco and screenprinting this weekend, here is the party/fundraiser/all-around good time for you! Sarah of the Obama Craft Project is hosting a screenathon on Saturday to make your own custom Obama shirts and bags (or whatever you like that lies flat) and I’m…
okay, moving some craft videos over to another hard drive cleared things up nicely and now my new pictures are all set. I’m going to write up a gocco/screenprinting post tomorrow with a fabric-banners how-to but in the meantime I wanted to post about our beautiful new crocheted hats for fall: Here we are at…
Okay, I have been struggling with my usually effortless camera –> computer picture transfer the last few days and so I don’t have any of the new photos I wanted to post! ugh. I’m not usually very on top of the timing of these things, but I heard someone mention that mercury was in retrograde…
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….