From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Transforming Holiday Tins

December 30, 2008

. . . While you’re waiting to see if you won the drawing, I’ll point out that I have a new tutorial up on CraftStylish.

This one was inspired by the fact that I always seem to accumulate a few more holiday tins each year. So this year, I raided my wrapping paper stash and [...]

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Welcome back, everyone! Hope you had a splendid Christmas. I thought we’d brighten this back-to-work day (for many of you) with a giveaway.
The nice people at STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books have donated a copy of Zakka Sewing, which is an adorable book. You can check out a nice gallery of projects over here.
So, post a [...]

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…And to all a Good Night!

December 24, 2008

Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It can’t be said enough: I’m so grateful to you for reading this blog, and leaving comments, and being such an awesome community of like-minded souls. I’m so looking forward to more communal creating in 2009!

I’m going to take a few days off from [...]

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A Pretty Holiday Piece

December 23, 2008

Having first checked to make sure I’m not issuing any spoilers, I wanted to share a cool thing we received for Solstice. K’s sister Jennifer made it.

This glass vase has a hole drilled in back, so that Jen could feed in a string of mini-lights. Then she settled potpourri around the lights. When you plug [...]

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A Perhaps-Too-White Christmas

December 23, 2008

Mixed feelings these days. . .

On the one hand, the 14 inches of snow currently blanketing Portland is lovely. If you like, you can see some winter splendor from our neighborhood over here.

On the other hand, I’ve been mostly housebound for just over a week, and this is starting to have bad effects on [...]

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Vintage-y Holiday Goodness, part 6 (and final)

December 22, 2008

As promised, some more vintage BHG to finish out this series. Thank you so much for all the comment-love on these posts!

This BHG is one of my all-time favorites. Copyright in the groovy year of 1974.

So. Many. Amazing. Trees. in this one – like this crazy thing, built from fabric-covered coat hangers. Yes, Virginia, that [...]

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Appropriate for the first day of Winter…

December 21, 2008

Happy Solstice, everyone! Portland continues to be buried under an ever-thickening blanket of snow. Although today, apparently, we’ll break the monotony with an ice storm.

Anyway, last night, as we were turning out lights at bedtime, K. and I noticed how pretty this scene looked, and busted out the tripod to capture it.

Our deck is piled [...]

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Vintage-y Holiday Goodness, part 5

December 20, 2008

K. surprised me with this BHG book, which he found on Paperback Swap. (I’ve said it before: this man is a keeper.)

You know, if I had unlimited time and money, I’d research and write a book titled: What Happened to Craft in the 80’s? It’s so interesting, how the glorious crafty experimentation of the 60’s [...]

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