I don’t usually participate in memes that make the rounds on facebook and blogs, but a couple people have tagged me for this album cover meme and I couldn’t resist the chance to practice some random creativity. Here’s the deal: Create your own RANDOM Band and Album cover! 1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random” [...]
Another backdated entry… tsk tsk, I know. But the weekend kinda got away from me! It just wouldn’t be early November without the wonderful CircleCraft Christmas Market. I’ve made it out to the market every year I’ve lived in Vancouver – and twice even before I lived here, when I happened to be visiting town [...]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s sewing post comes yet another crafty entry. I’ve been collecting random craft tutorial links in my del.icio.us but when I came across Handmade Holidays today I decided it deserved its own post. The folks over at Sew, Mama, Sew are posting handmade gift ideas all month, with a different [...]
For the past couple months I’ve been spending my Monday nights in the home economics room of a local high school. I had no interest in sewing when I was in my teens. In fact, I was likely to run from anything stereotypically “girly.” But in my 20′s I began to wish I’d learned some [...]
Halloween has always been a favourite holiday of mine, but this year I decided to really go all out with my costume. Make Magazine published some great Halloween costume tutorials last year, and I was inspired by Nicole Magne’s awesome Headless Marie Antoinette tutorial. So I created a headless bust from paper mache and cobbled [...]
Well, it will be in a week or so anyhow, when I am relaxing at my parent’s house and worrying less about school and Christmas wrapping and baking and cooking! I’ve had two purchases in my etsy store in the past 24 hours! Those cufflinks are selling like hotcakes. It’s inspired me to post some [...]