Written Erin on January 22, 2009 in Craft Miracles | No comments yet
I’m speechless…. Found this ditty on Flickr from http://www.crochetbynumbers.comYou might also enjoy:Looooong term projectLady Gaga's Monster Ball in Portland: i went!!!! Inspiration Sunday is Ellen
Written Erin on January 22, 2009 in Craft Miracles | 5 Comments
Walked into my local art store today and a silk painting kit caught my eye. Never seen it before. Apparently you can paint on silk. This means that YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN SILK SCARVES!!!! I am obsessed with vintage silk scarves so this revelation was a HUGE one for me. Like, WOW. Of course, at $30 plus the cost of the silk I didn’t buy the set…yet. I took it to the internet...
Written Erin on January 20, 2009 in Sewing | 3 Comments
I finally took pictures of all the yummy head scarves I made for Holiday Market that didn’t sell. I made 150+ and it was an unusually slow market so I’m still rollin’ in head scarves. God bless self-directed self-photography though, seriously. How else could I take this many semi-decent pictures of myself? I love these new-fangled digital cameras. Check it out…no two...
Written Erin on January 19, 2009 in Spotlight On: Crafters i Love | No comments yet
All of the artists I feature in my “Spotlight On:” series are personal crafts inspirations to me. Seems to me that no crafter can really work in isolation because we’re all drawing off that single creative principal. The first artist I want to feature in my “Spotlight On:” series is Taryn and Jeff’s business, Mystic Orb Talismans. For the last two years...
Written Erin on January 17, 2009 in Thrift Scores | 11 Comments
My favorite thing about visiting Santa Rosa is the thrifting. There’s tons of thrift shops here – even the old-school “bins” type where you get to dig around in massive piles of unsorted, unwashed clothes. Ahh…heaven. So meditative. This week, I scored two amazing vintage macrame magazines. Macrame is one of those dying art forms that our moms barely remember...
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