We found our china hutch on our first visit to Hawthorne Vintage, and ever since then I’ve been a huge fan of the shop — there are dozens of vendors selling there, and each space has amazing furniture, collectibles and trinkets to look through. But my favorite is Galen Murphy’s incredible Vera Neumann collection. I…
I’m late in posting today, but wanted to let anyone within striking distance of Portland know about all the cool stuff going on this weekend! On Saturday, there are two craft sales happening: Rock Paper Scissors (which is part of the Division-Clinton street fair!) at Motokitty, 1117 SE Division, and Crafty Mamas at Milagros, 5433…
My Around the World in 80 Girls travel guide to Los Angeles is on page 48 of the latest issue of BUST (with Rosario Dawson on the cover) — I’m so pleased! I got to shout out to so many of my favorite places: ReForm School, Pull My Daisy, Felt Club, Griffith Park, Michael Levine,…
The all-day opening party at the Museum of Contemporary Craft on Sunday was amazing — and exhausting, hence the day off I gave myself yesterday. We taught crafts for nine hours (!) and people flooded in all day long to make things with us! I had really hoped to do more walking around to check…
I just wrote this up for the Adorn blog with more details if you’re interested… but if you’re around on Sunday, please come by the Museum of Contemporary Craft for their grand reopening celebration. The crafts, music, and workshops are all free and open to the public! I’ll be there with PDX Super Crafty teaching…
This month is two years since I started my getcrafty column, and though I just took a few months off from posting so I could move and deal with a big stack of work projects, I’m so glad to be contributing to the site! Here’s my new column, cross-posted… or read it over there! A…
Superbuzzy just did a major update, and sure enough, the sought-after elephant canvas is back… in five different color combinations. Yay! I snapped up four of them in 1/2 yard and 1 yard lengths, since I missed them last time. I’m so excited to have a second chance at crafting with elephants! I wish I…
Kayte was in town this weekend, which was so much fun! One of our first stops after her train got in was Cupcake Jones, a new mini-bakery in the Pearl. By mini, I mean not only that more than five customers couldn’t possibly cram in there, but that they have tiny versions of all their…
I wish I were back in Los Angeles this weekend… there are so many great things going on. But I have plenty to do up here, and Kayte is visiting tomorrow, so Portland is not such a bad place to be! On Friday, Billie and Tootie of ReForm School are hosting one of their amazing…
I am a new but devoted Sewing Center West customer, and bought my Pfaff ClassicStyle Quilt sewing machine there last month — it’s been a dream to use, which has been especially nice since I am in the middle of a big quilt project. I went back over to the store today for my free…
Our wireless is apparently back after a week of on-and-off (mostly off) glitchiness, thank goodness… it’s a hundred degrees out and I just don’t think I could head over to a coffee shop to check my email like I have for the last few days. My inborn Southern ability to tolerate this kind of blazing…
I seem to have accidentally taken a little posting vacation this week — but between the holiday, general busy-ness, and an agonizingly slow wireless connection it was kind of nice to skip a couple of days! So here is my four-day Color Week catch-up, in order, along with a few bits and pieces of stuff…