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Crafting in Wonderland: This one was a Christmas hit
Waiting for Wonderland | December 25th 2009 by Andrea G.
Allan got the hang of bottle cutting just in time for Christmas! We gave out some Corona and Guinness glasses as gifts. Allan even made one out of a wine bottle for my mom. We're hoping to perfect this and get into etching and painting so we can p read more
Crafting a Handmade Pittsburgh
confessions of a craft-a-holic | December 24th 2009 by subu
check out this great article on the point park news service on the handmade movement in pittsburgh. you can find gems like this by yours truly: The push towards handmade goods “seems to mirror the push in the food industry to buy local and support read more
Crafty Kids
Crafty Chics Blog | December 24th 2009 by Shawn Mosch
It is the day before Christmas, my shopping and baking is done, it is snowing outside . . . sounds like a PERFECT day for crafting to me! I will be working on a couple of new projects that I hope to show off soon, but until then I am going to show o read more
Blogging for Bliss: Crafting Your Own Online Journal: A Guide for…
Book and movie reviews | December 23rd 2009 by Andri
Today’s crafting community is online, connected, and blissfully blogging about their work and ideas. Blogging is hot in this highly creative world—and here is the only how-to book aimed directly at them. Everyone from knitters and beaders to s read more
I smell Christmas!
Veritas Art Project | December 23rd 2009 by Amanda
Wow, Christmas is already upon us. I havent even had time to do any crafting between garage sales and medical exams! Anyway, here are some great ideas for some Christmas Crafting in case you have time between cooking and presents!http://www.handmaden read more
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Elemental | December 22nd 2009 by Amy Ambroult
I'm not the only one in our household who has been busy making. The girls have spent the last week making the perfect gifts for each other, and I have just been informed that my stocking is full and ready for Christmas morning. I can't wait to see wh read more
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, and ...
Dzyning Things | December 22nd 2009
it did! Wow, we had a huge snowstorm this past weekend. Although I didn't need to shovel the snow because we have people who come by and clean out our driveways and walkways, I did. I loved it. The boys went sledding and made snowballs. When I went t read more
going hoopless
Cupcakes for Clara | December 22nd 2009 by Laura Fairbrother
or My First Quilt and how I broke all the rules making it. Folks, I have finished my first quilt!I know, I know that I started a quilt for Matilda, but I couldn't resist giving myself the huge challenge of making one for Tom too. A double b read more
13 Hours a Day?
Lenox Knits | December 22nd 2009 by Lenox Knits
It's totally feeling like Christmas all of a sudden. It got bitterly cold this week and there is that nice stillness on campus right before the holiday break. (Just as I typed that line someone started drilling right outside my window. Irony in ac read more
When the Voices in Your Head Don't Calm You Down...Blog
Heathen Family Revival | December 22nd 2009 by Kelly Beckman-Crabtree
Thanks for the pep talk about my Christmas cards. Before I got my own blog, I would have stewed about this little incident for days and days. Talking to one's self does not provide the positive feedback necessary for a speedy emotional recovery, no m read more
Soft Records
Lovely Lissie's Reflections and Ruminations | December 22nd 2009 by Melissa
Once again the good folks at Craftzine have lead me to a wonderful Etsy shop. The owners, Esther and Shelley, have a wonderful collection of items. My favorites are these record pillows. Aren’t they adorable?! read more
First Aid Powerleveling guide
World of Warcraft Strategies | December 22nd 2009 by Anne
First Aid is a secondary skill in World of Warcraft that can help reduce your downtime by providing instance healing bandages from cloth. If you are vendoring cloth, you can increase its value by making it into bandages first and you can usually sel read more
confetti eggs for the new year by mayamade
frauheuberg | December 21st 2009
by mayamadealso hier unser versprochenes letztes DIYprojekt im jahre 2009...konfettiEier für silvester...eine tolle idee für kinder zum selbermachen...einfach und schnell...man muss nur eier ausblasen und oben ein kleines loch bohren...das ganze da read more
Christmas Crafting
I'm not judging - I'm Just Saying | December 21st 2009 by sara wincek
So Christmas is almost here and for those of you that don't know the meaning of procrastination and are probably already done with everything - the wrapping, the shopping, the baking, the yada yada - you might be thinking it's time to pull out your c read more
Packing Packing
MEOWFATS | December 21st 2009 by Jenii
Been slowly packing over the past few days. Most everything is packed up, gotta get all the essentials versus not-so-but-kinda essentials sorted and packed now. とまと put in his notice yesterday so we have some 1.5 weeks until we perma-quit this read more
More Xmas Progress!!!
Guerilla Handbags...and Crafts | December 20th 2009 by novia
With 5 days to go I’m in panic mode! WHERE THE HECK DID THE TIME GO?!? But here is what I have done thus far. Nowhere near the half of the list but darn it I’ll be a knitting machine until my family comes over for Xmas! So first up is Gizzy’ read more
My heart, old hunger motor... (17 December 2009)
A Secret History | December 19th 2009 by Emily
• My Victorian Clock is in a festive new @Etsy treasury, 'A Christmas Carol' - http://ow.ly/N8g0 (Please to be clicking and commenting.)• RT @tyrsalvia: It occurred to me last night: this is my life. This is adulthood. This is what I was preparin read more
Memories at Christmas
Crafty Chics Blog | December 19th 2009 by Shawn Mosch
1999 was an emotional year in our house . . . in April my husband and were married, that fall we found out we were pregnant, at Thanksgiving we found out that my mother-in-law had cancer and then she died on Christmas Eve . . . all in the same year.W read more
The Creature Invasion
Eleanorblog | December 19th 2009 by Alison
An update of all the creatures that have been created lately, some comissions, some for Christmas. The Nativity set was comissioned, and contains the full set of characters and animals with stable – only the characters are all bears! We compl read more
The HGTV Gift Exchange And My Easy Chair
Look what I found! | December 19th 2009 by Astrid Sikkema
I love the HGTV Knitting and Crocheting board’s holiday gift swap. The only rule to this exchange is that we create something with love for our swap buddies. Items are sent out directly to them so there are no extra costs involved and it’s up to read more
How to Create a Winter Splatter Painting
Christian Stay at Home Moms | December 18th 2009 by Heather
Painting is a great way for kids to express themselves. And just like many of the other activities they enjoy it can be quite messy! Splatter painting is especially messy, but it creates a very interesting effect. Splatter painting works very well fo read more
Made with Love
A Journey to a Simple Happy Life | December 18th 2009 by Imene Said-Kouidri
My crafting/knitting has been in a funk lately. Nothing I can explain really, just a series of miss happenings: mistakes, kids playing with yarn or inability to start something. Just a weird phase…I hope! So yesterday I put my knitting aside and read more
Ho, Ho, Ho layout
Crafty Chics Blog | December 18th 2009 by Shawn Mosch
I was working on a scrapbook for another family, and I highlighted their Holiday photos with Santa with the "Ho, Ho, Ho" image from the Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge.I did the background in green with the ho, ho, ho in a red and white candy cane s read more
The countdown!
Lenox Knits | December 18th 2009 by Lenox Knits
I know that I rambled on a lot in that last post but I was really trying to organize my thoughts about whether I should or want to get more involved in the local crafting community. I would really like to hear from you about any street teams or orga read more
Great article on Etsy!
Bonzai Beads | December 18th 2009 by Bonnie
I came across this wonderful article about etsy... check it out!http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/fashion/17etsy.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&no_interstitial I really like the last paragraph:Still, the challenge is to find balance. “What’s the read more
I'm getting in the Holiday Spirit
That Crafty Bitch | December 18th 2009 by Pink Pitcher
Well that Holiday is sneaking up. We're making cookies, we're puzzling over what to get the teenagers on our list, we're drinking eggnog in the traditional manner (with rum that is). So I decided to waste some time on Etsy and make a blog post, whet read more
Recycled Christmas Cards to Gift Tags
FatBottomBlog: Living green in a colorful world | December 18th 2009 by Christi Spangler
I save everything. Every little bow, ribbon or scrap of rafia that comes my way via gifts and packaging. I have a bag in the laundry area where these things get accumulated throughout the year. It's great because when it is time for read more
crafty little pudding
Cupcakes for Clara | December 18th 2009 by Laura Fairbrother
* please note - this post is not another one about Matilda, rather the thing that is surrounding Matilda - so please ignore the cute child, she's just a prop!Now then, with so many Christmas party invitations, gatherings, and general festi read more
Vintage Christmas Tree Window Decorations Tutorial
Serendipity Handmade | December 17th 2009 by Serendipity Handmade
I spent yesterday evening making a version of these lovely vintage window decorations out of Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Ideas 1967. It dawned on me as I was making them that I must have subconsciously chosen "trees" as a decorating the read more
Christmas Wrapping
Newly Domesticated | December 17th 2009 by Amber
Am I the only one who obsesses about gift wrap? I'm an aesthete in all senses and ever since I started doing Christmases as an adult, I've picked a color scheme for my wrapping paper and gone with it. My mom kinda objected to the idea of gifts not wr read more
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