Last Sunday’s Church of Craft meeting was the last one ever at Rimsky’s! It was a little sad to say goodbye to the house, but I am excited for the Central Library meetings, too. We all made garland flags as a thank-you to the coffeehouse for having us over to craft every month for the…
I had such a great visit to the Bay Area last week — it was so much fun. Besides Meredith‘s wedding, which was beautiful, I had a chance to meet up with Christina, Nancy, Natalie and Tricia to criss-cross the city on a beautiful summer afternoon looking for crafty treasures. Natalie pulled up my blog…
I’ve been hoping to write some fun crafty posts with lots of pictures, but I’ve been struck down with migraines this week so short and sweet will have to do til Monday… hope you don’t mind! Update: I think my migraines got the better of me — the PDX Etsy sale is online, not here…
Well, I’m back from a lovely, crafty, busy weekend in San Francisco! I want to post all about it tomorrow along with some pictures, but in the meantime, here are a few nice things I’ve run across online lately: Craftlog has just created a very, very Good Thing: a searchable archive of all the Martha…
I’m in San Francisco this week for a wedding and excited to have a chance to do some crafty things — I’m sewing a special bridal project this morning, and this afternoon I’ll be getting a tour of Sampler World HQ from Marie, along with Christina, Tricia, Natalie, and Nancy! If you’re around on Saturday,…
Andrew and I took some things to be framed this week, and hung them last night, and I’m just so happy to have them up on the walls. After a few months of settling in, it is really starting to feel like our home, especially now that I can look around and see this beautiful…
I am sad to report that Mabel’s is closing down the knitting shop side of things this month, but on the bright side the owners will be keeping the cafe up and running as Tandem Coffeehouse, with lots more treats on the menu. From their website: We hope you will continue to hang out with…
One of my crafty heroes, Jean Railla, has recently started a lovely cooking/community/sheer love of food blog called Meal by Meal in which she documents her series of dinner parties, one by one. I adore food and cooking, and I am always pleased when she has a new entry up. I love her enthusiasm and…
Today is our second wedding anniversary! Of course I had to cut my workday a bit short to pick up a few things… since we had champagne and cupcakes at our wedding, it just wouldn’t be an anniversary without them. So instead of crafty recommendations, I’ll mention my favorite places for wedding-anniversary-worthy treats: definitely Saint…
Well, today (August 6) is the day that the new Adorn is actually on newsstands (yay!) — though I enthusiastically blogged about it on Friday, so my apologies if anyone went running to the store and didn’t see it out. To make up for any confusion, here’s a JoAnn Fabrics sale code I just got…
I just got my copy of the fall Adorn, and it looks so great — I love it. Plus, since it just jumped up to a bigger page size, there are more projects and features than ever! Kayte Terry made these plastic-canvas candleholders that grace the cover: I have several pieces in the issue —…
While Cathy of California was visiting this week, of course we had to make time to stop by Queen Bee Creations world headquarters here in town. Queen Bee recently opened their studio doors for visitors to stop by and shop from 9-5 every day (instead of making a special appointment) and they have tons of…