Last week I shared how I redesign papers that don't really speak to me. You know, those sheets that it if I wasn't so "frugal" (read, cheap, spendthrifty, etc.) I would just toss out. This week I want to share what I do with papers I can't live without. Let me be clear. These …
Let's face it, we all have too much patterned paper in our lives (don't we?). Sometimes you buy a pack and every piece is fantastic except one. Or, you bought it so long ago that now you can't imagine what drew you to it. I figured out a way to update my paper just using …
That's right, Michael's the craft emporium super store has arrived and I went to check it out today. I was moderately impressed with the variety of items, but the layout was a little funky (planners in more than one area, all storage on sale, but not all in the same place, unfinished floors?) But the weirdness did …
I love doing custom orders because folks have such great ideas! Today's win is a great mash up of two of my classic items; wooden notebook and address book. A member of my book group has always said if I ever made a wooden covered address book she would certainly buy it. I had been …
Life was relatively calm today. Yoga, errands, bird seed out for the no-tail red squirrel; I mean birds. The dog and I even played outside for a little while. This made room for my mind to be open for some crafting, and a few notebooks appeared. Well, a few notebook covers have appeared. Here's my …
Check out this stencil by Dina Wakely. I did this amazing new thing where I cleaned my desk and did an basic visual inventory (opened all the random boxes of crap) and voila! There she was! I plan on using a few of these images on book covers and maybe do a canvas or two …
The Christmas rush is over. We are trying to squeeze out every minute of fun we can out of our holiday before we go back to work. We are thinking about cleaning the house and making New Year's resolutions. Who knows if we'll get any or all of that done, but here's the one thing …
Years ago, I ripped articles and how-tos out of Martha Stewart Magazine like my life depended on it. Why I thought that I would need to know things like: how to make soap in the shape of a shell or how to hand-dip pine cones in glitter (oh crap, maybe I do want to know how to do …
Maybe it's a reaction to all the color on the Gelli Prints. Maybe it's my brain crying out for some calm. Maybe it's that the Orange Harvest Festival is only ten days away. Well, whatever it is, I'm kind of digging this Basic Declaration Set (Look, my brain is so calm, I even came up …
I am happy to report I will be participating in three craft fairs this fall. The Orange, NH Harvest Festival, October 16 The Cardigan Mountain Art Association Artisan Fair in Enfield, NH, November 5 & 6 The Christmas Craft Fair at Mascoma High School, Canaan, NH, November 26. Whew, there is a lot of preparation …
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