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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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 This is the Beaverton Farmer’s Market – or at least, the very corner of it (it’s huge). K. and I usually go to the smaller Hillsboro Market, but it takes a lot longer for the fresh produce to start arriving there. Thanks to Sally’s post earlier this week, I learned that veggies could be … Read On! There’s More!  Man, it’s been a week! Let’s have a little Friday Nonserious Crafting Time. I dug this book out of my stash in honor of all the plastic bottles K. and I have been hoarding this week for our deck irrigation. This is a Hazel Pearson book, copyright 1965. I love this book for its sheer … Read On! There’s More!  I’m light on the posts this week – sorry. I’m in one of those work-vortex situations. But yesterday, on the train to a teaching gig, I did get to read Lotta Prints – and it’s fantastic. I’ve always had this idea that printing on fabric would be too hard to attempt. But with this book, … Read On! There’s More!  Cathy is fast becoming my guru. Replenishing her supply of swistraw recently, she came into a motherlode of vintage plastic canvas shapes. And she let me have first dibs. Can you imagine my squeal of geekly delight when I pulled these flower forms out of the envelope? (Bridget – maybe these were how your bag … Read On! There’s More!  Mom just sent me these pics, and I know this is no time to think about Christmas, but I just had to share! This is a gingerbread village we built together when I was in college – it was, in fact, our last gingerbread project. Massive undertaking – I think this whole thing is about … Read On! There’s More!  This monstrosity is my deck. It’s the only thing about our current apartment I don’t like so well. It’s uncovered, so there’s always debris raining down from the sky. And there’s no water source out there, so we have to haul water from the kitchen. Not to mention, I can’t seem to find the … Read On! There’s More!  Are you ready for Mother’s Day this weekend? We’ve already celebrated here – in combo with my Mom’s birthday, which was Tuesday. I was looking for a good celebratory dessert option – which is a challenge for this celebration given that it included sugar-eaters and non-sugar-eaters. But I found this great, highly-flexible recipe, and thought … Read On! There’s More!  My friend Bridget gave me these great black-and-white instruction sheets from the 70′s recently. They show how to make things with “Fake Fur.” Oh, there is so much to love about them. Starting with their proud use of the term “Fake Fur.” That wreath is made by taking a lot of 3″ circles of that … Read On! There’s More!  Last week, I read Hanna’s post about hand-sewing being her new go-to craft for soothing, repetitive time. She made some fantastic paper-pieced patchwork balls (follow that link and see her photo.) All this got me thinking about a craft book I had as a kid. It involved toys made with paper-piecing. But I couldn’t recall … Read On! There’s More!  A funny tale of my overloaded brain . . . . Ryan has decided to take her successful Etsy business in new directions, so she had a sale on her wonderful pendants. So I ordered two right away. (Aren’t they gorgeous?) In the package with them, I found this intriguing stack of little boxes. I opened the … Read On! There’s More! |
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