This Sunday my friends and I traveled to the new Daiso Japan store in Daly City (as mentioned recently on the Craft: blog). It is the Japanese equivalent of a dollar store (100 yen) where almost all items are $1.50. I got a ton of stuff, especially cute stationery with …
You will be seeing a lot more of this around here from now on…
I was luck enough to have my Ipod Tape Case chosen as a prize winner for the whiplash competition. My prizes were donated by tall poppy craft and are mostly purse making supplies, and are all fantastic. Purse handles, magnetic snaps, ribbons and tags, and a quilt pattern The cassette …
I posted this in the things i like category so I can feel free to randomly blather on about cool things I’ve found. Bear with me, you might find something that you like. Pincushions I was lucky enough to have Monique send me a package for this month’s pincushion challenge …
No one makes mixed tapes anymore. Everyone that I know has moved on to CD’s and iMixes. Most of my musical existence is entirely contained on my ipod. In fact, when I wanted to find an audio cassette I had to trek myself out to my 13 year old car …
The theme for this month’s whiplash competition is Accessories and this tutorial is my entry. I have been wanting to retire my hobo-style fingerless gloves, and find something more fashionable to keep my hands warm at work. I decided to turn a $2.50 thrift-store angora sweater into a pair of …
For the past week, I have been checking my mailbox every day for the first issue of Craft magazine. It’s still not here. In the meantime, I have been reading their blog and entering some of their contests*… And suddenly I am even more excited! One of my proudest moments …
This month the Pincushion challenge is to used recycled materials in the creation of a pincushion. This challenge actually laste two months, and I forgot about it a few times, and then would remember and spend a while thinking about what to make. In the end, I just went into …
I had a lot of yarn sitting around that I have been meaning to upload to my etsy shop, and today is the day. I sure hope it sells, because it is taking up a ton of room…. In addition to a bunch of sock yarn, I made a set …
The origins of this jacket remain a mystery to me. I am thinking garage sale of a friend, Ross impulse purchase, random hand-me-down… but i can’t really pin it down. I hate the color, and the fit is a little too loose for a cute little blazer. The only thing …