I’m always happy to see a new Star Wars craft. My Paper Crane made the cutest little dead tauntaun with insertable Luke doll for the Stitch Wars (which deserved it’s own post due to the cuteness of the flyer) show … Read More ...
Maker Faire and Bazaar Bizarre Countdown!
It’s that time of year again! Time for Maker Faire and Bazaar Bizarre!
Over the course of this week I will be doing a series of posts related to these events.
What is Maker Faire?
A two-day, family-friendly event … Read More ...
Stitch Wars – Coming this Summer!
Bear and Bird Boutique and Gallery in South Florida is having a Stitch Wars show this summer.
A group art exhibition featuring amazing handmade goods inspired by the most fabulous space opera ever made!
Opens July 18, 2009
Bear and … Read More ...
New! Spoonflower Design Services
Spoonflower is now offering design services, including design preparation and custom designs and free consultations with Laura.
” Do you have questions for our design professionals about your service needs?
If you have a project in mind and want … Read More ...
Snail Renaissance – Tiny Art Directors are the Best
Tiny art directors are the best! The artist gets the concept from his daughter, executes it and then gets a critique, sometimes to the tune of, “I’m sorry to say that you’re worser than me. You gotta learn to draw … Read More ...
Modish Biz Tips – a Crafty Business Blog
Modish has a new crafty business blog that looks like it has some great articles on it.
Check out this two parter pst on selling your crafts on consignment or wholesale.… Read More ...
Sprout Chicago How To – Eco Envelopes
OOO! I need to go make one of these cool eco envelopes out of an empty cereal box right now! Actually I might change it up a bit to make packaging for my booth at Maker Faire.
I can’t wait … Read More ...
Charles & Ray Eames Fabric
I am so drooling over this Charles and Ray Eames upholstery weight fabric. Someday I’ll need a chair reupholstered and this will be it, I tell you!
I want to make Amy Butler’s Weekender bag in the Small Dot cream … Read More ...
Sharpie Art – Paintings and Drawings and T-Shirts!
If you have 4 minutes or so check out this sharpie art video. It’s Harold and the Purple Crayon meets er.. someone with a sharpie. While I was watching it I was annoyed that they were so focused in … Read More ...
Free Amy Butler Paper Craft Patterns
I go check Amy Butler’s free pattern (and I just bought her cute school girl skirt pattern the other day ) page every now and then and I just noticed her free paper craft patterns there as well!
Her lotus … Read More ...
A Goddess Dress for All Seasons
Fifty Two Acts is a blog described by it’s author thusly:
… Read More ...The project, 52 Acts, is the creative component of my Doctor of Creative Arts program. The program is designed to answer the question: ‘how can cyberfeminism practice and Web
More Fabric on Demand
Fabric on Demand is a new web site that is doing fabric printing. You can design your fabric, upload your image and then choose from 5 different fabric choices:
» 100% Cotton
» Poly / Cotton Broadcloth (35% cotton/65% … Read More ...
Tempting, Very Tempting
Danny Gregory has a new-ish journaling book out called An Illustrated Life. I’m always so tempted by this kind of book. I love illustrations and moleskine notebooks and water colors as journal entries.
The trick to this sort of … Read More ...
Calling all knitty geeks – your iPhone app is here.
I randomly decided to do a Google search for ‘iPhone craft app’ (or iPod touch in my case) here is what I found:
Stitchminder FREE
… Read More ...The program provides four customizable counters that can be used to track rows completed, pattern
Bake it Pretty!
I love pretty or funny baking cups. I’m hoarding my power puff girls and my Harry Potter ones, I’m not sure when the specialest special occasion will happen that will allow my heart to use them up.
Although my husband … Read More ...