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Hello there! I'm Sister Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?
 
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 Whew! This week’s tutorial just went up on DIY Alert, and by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin, I might add. It’s for Salt Dough Cookie Ornaments, a great project to entertain home-on-holiday-break kids and visiting relatives. This project also harkens back to CraftyPod #54: Make Your Own Clay. Hope you enjoy! Read On! There’s More!  A huge, busy day. K. and I booked a Flexcar to do a bunch of pre-holiday errands — one of which was a trip to The Bins. (For the uninitiated, The Bins are actually the Goodwill Outlet store, where merchandise that doesn’t sell in the regular Goodwill stores, or isn’t in good enough shape for … Read On! There’s More!  Since gingerbread houses are so prominent this year, I thought I’d show you some of the g-bread building going on in Second Life. It’s pretty freakin’ amazing. They can be found in all shapes and sizes. Here’s a little one with a train that goes round and round . . . . . . . And … Read On! There’s More!  Zine trades are so much fun! Here’s a new discovery, Simple Sal: A Busy Gal’s Guide to Simple Livin’ in a Crazy Age. (Amen to that!) Shelley Jo, the creatrix of this zine, contacted me recently to swap, and I’ve been having a blast reading these. This is a super-fun zine about simpler living, and … Read On! There’s More!  Huh. The last words of the post I made this morning have been haunting me all day. “Remove one thing from your holiday to-do list.” You know, I’m going to follow my own freakin’ advice for once. And the thing I’m removing is this week’s podcast. It was going to be a really fun show about the … Read On! There’s More!  Mom and I haven’t found the time to bake Christmas cookies together in a long time. But over the past few years, we’ve both been on a quest to develop some good sugarless or low-sugar cookie recipes. (K. is hypoglycemic, and I’m borderline hypoglycemic, so sugar isn’t around our house much.) Yesterday, we got together … Read On! There’s More!  A little score from a recent visit to eBay. This book — really, a booklet — has some awesome 70′s-era ornament goodness. (ISBN 0-696-01255-3, in case you’re looking for one.) These are jar lids, painted with tiny mirrors glued to the centers. Cool, eh? And these (be still my heart) are more mirrors. Their frames are … Read On! There’s More!  I’ve been fighting with (and getting my butt kicked by) a little cold or something the past few days, so I’m just now catching up on things. Here are a couple tibits for blog-land. . . . This week’s tutorial on DIY Alert is a fun way to re-use old wrapping paper and make it … Read On! There’s More!  I’ve still got Christmas ornaments on the brain . . . especially as they’re the subject of the next podcast. And then I got really inspired by Susan’s Holiday Ornament Roundup over at the Adorn blog. Plus, I put up my tree last weekend (Man, she’s getting packed), and have been enjoying the returning … Read On! There’s More!  It’s always with great excitement that K. and I bring the box of “Christmas Media” out of storage each year. It’s full of holiday music, books, and movies, all of which I probably love as much as I do because I only get to enjoy them once a year. I thought it might be fun … Read On! There’s More! |
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