From the monthly archives:

May 2008

TGI Market Day

May 31, 2008

I do love the weekly ritual of market season. It was a quick trip today, because I’m teaching a library class this afternoon. But there were so many pretties, including these near-to-bursting peony buds.

Carrots and sweet Walla Walla onions were all over the place this week. I got some carrots to roast, which is something [...]

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CRAFT Party on Sunday: The Lineup Looks Great!

May 28, 2008

Things are really coming together for this Sunday’s CRAFT 07 Release Party at Twisted! Locals, we’d love to see you between 12 and 3, to partake of all these fun things:

- A free project table: make your own Cute as a Button Bracelet! This project is from Bead Simple, and excerpted in the new issue [...]

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Deck Makeover Part 2: Planties

May 26, 2008

Progress on our deck makeover has been slow, mostly because it rains every single freakin’ day right now in Portland. But we have made some small upgrades. That’s our lettuce box, almost ready to start harvesting. Don’t you love those two mushroom stakes? They’re a gift from my mom.

Some bits of color in their infancy. [...]

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A Fascinating Fail

May 25, 2008

My 10 year-old nephew is coming to visit in a couple weeks, so I’ve been looking for good kid-projects to do with him. Something tells me he won’t want to learn to spool-knit.

Anyway, Rosie’s book got me thinking about making a salt crystal garden, but then I wanted to go that one better. Why [...]

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Market Day

May 24, 2008

This is the Hillsboro Farmer’s Market, where K. and I tried to score local produce again today. Still no luck there – oh, except for these:

. . . Which are just about my favorite thing in the world today. I hate cooked peas, but I could eat them raw, pods and all, all the livelong [...]

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Insert beady-eyed pun here…

May 23, 2008

I’m such a fan of hybrid crafts – combining one kind of making with another to get something new. So I was excited to see this bead quilling on the cover of the June Bead & Button.

Are you familiar with quilling? It’s an old craft where you twirl thin strips of paper around a needle [...]

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Waxing Enthusiastic (ACK, what a bad headline!)

May 22, 2008

Here’s another favorite from my vintage stash. Whatever you may think of the decorative value of these candles, you gotta respect the sheer technical skill of author Beverly Ferguson. (This one’s Copyright 1966 by Craft Course Publishers, Inc. ACK! It’s as old as me!)

So, check this out: first, you melt a thin sheet of wax [...]

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Portland’s CRAFT 07 Release Party – Coming Soon!

May 20, 2008

That’s right, locals! P-Town is hosting another fabulous release party for CRAFT’s latest issue. We’ll be gathering at Twisted on Sunday, June 1st, from 12-3. If you missed the last one, well, you missed a good time. We’d love to see you at this one.
We’ll have an awesome hands-on craft table, where you can make [...]

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How to Make a Cool Button Pendant

May 19, 2008

Here’s what we made at Church of Craft yesterday: Button Pendants. They use good old plastic canvas as their base, which means they can easily be converted to pins.

Speaking of which, Susan has two great button projects in Bead Simple that using those plastic canvas rounds. (That’s Page 147 and 213, for you book [...]

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