Cool and hipster handmade movement
These cardboard animals by Parisian architect Claude Jeantet are amazing! She also makes other cute house accessories from cardboard. The penguin side table and owl book-ends are my favorites.
You can check out the whole collection over at Lisa Fontanarosa’s … Read More ...
Thing A Day starts Feb. 1st! There is still time to sign up!
What is Thing A Day?
… Read More ...Thing-a-day is a collective creative blog that lives for one month every February. Participants commit to create new things every day and
Are you in the Dallas area? this Valentine’s Day trunk show featuring local artists sounds like a great place to get your SO a fun present adn to hang out with local artists drinking wine. fun!
… Read More ...Dallas, Texas; Saturday, February
I love this post by Rhinestones an Telephones looking back on her year of conscious thrifty choices, she decided to spend 2010 choosing quality over quantity and doing rather than only observing.
Go read this post to be inspired!… Read More ...
Do you buy items in local stores that are from local crafters? I like to. My local pet store had some cute hand sewn catnip mice. They are very cute, can be made from pretty tiny scraps and cats love … Read More ...
Whether you are taking pictures of your crafts to sell or just to display on your blog having beautiful interesting photos of your crafts can be a big help to draw people in.
Elizabeth Carls has a nice blog post … Read More ...
I love these maps of cities that use only words to define streets and landmarks. When I was a kid I loved to write poems that were in the shape of the things they were about. I wrote many and … Read More ...
I so totally want to build this toddler sized working backhoe (PDF here). How long so you think that would take? me? It would take about 40 years and my kid would already be a grandfather. But I … Read More ...
Colette Patterns just announced a new feature called Snippets, a weekly sewing tip delivered to your inbox.
I do get too many emails every day but all the reasons they list are so true. 🙂
… Read More ...You get to learn without
Another fun Kickstarter project that has made it’s goal. The Fixers Collective is in NY and it looks like they have workshop space and hours where you can bring in things for them to fix. What a great idea! Even … Read More ...
The Project Linus Mission
… Read More ...Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each volunteer and local chapter all work together to help us achieve our mission which is to provide love,
I love this dollhouse that Sutton Grace has made for her daughter. She documents the process well in several posts (here’s the first in the series) and then also posts more detailed plans here. This doll house … Read More ...
Okay, this is not exactly a craft… but so useful and amusing for some reason and it could easily need a knitted cozy or something to make it more cheerful. Anyway, I often have the can’t hear my iPhone problem.… Read More ...
Gold spray paint and leaves. Go pick up some pretty leaves, lay them out on some news paper and give them a light coating of gold (or silver) spray paint and then use them to decorate your tree!
Pretty and … Read More ...
