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Hello there! I'm 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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 Yee-Haw! I gotta declare the first Plastic Canvas Blog Hop a smashing success. Every participant came up with something super cool, and I think that collectively, we showed off a lot of things this humble medium can do. (See pictures and links at the bottom of this post.) …And here I am, closing things out … Read On! There’s More!  This tote bag represents an alignment of planets. It started with a pile of old quilt blocks I grabbed at a thrift store four years ago, only to get them home and discover that they weren’t in good enough shape to sew back into a quilt. After a long time sitting in my stash, … Read On! There’s More!  I had such a great time coming up with this project for Spoonflower. I’ve been obsessing lately about kaleidoscopes, and how they create complex images by capturing one wedge-shaped segment and repeating it. I got to thinking, how about recreating that idea in fabrics? Each pillow requires two fat quarters, and Spoonflower has a bazillion … Read On! There’s More!  Some of us, in our new year’s planning, like to set an intention word for the coming year – something to keep us centered and on track. If this is you, maybe you’d like to immortalize your chosen word in the form of an embossed metal magnet like this! I have a fresh new … Read On! There’s More!  Happy Purported End-of-World Day, everyone! I wanted to pop in and share a link to this tutorial I did for Whimseybox. I used one of my favorite craft supplies, metal duct tape, to emboss this shiny, organic-y ornament. It’s easy to make, and now that I’m finally putting my tree up, I can attest … Read On! There’s More!  Here’s my contribution to our blog hop this week! As I mentioned yesterday, good photography is increasingly becoming very important to building an online presence. Look at all the big aggregation blogs in the craft community. They share projects from all over, and what do those projects generally have in common? Good photos. Good tutorial … Read On! There’s More!  Psst: I just wanted to give you a heads up that I’m teaming up with a group of smart ladies for a week of photo tutorials! Our blog hop hopes to address one of my biggest challenges at CRAFT (and one that Haley continues to have), and one that’s showing up again as I … Read On! There’s More!  I’ve been all busy doing things in other places lately! Here are a few of them… I had a blast making these Halloween Hand Puppets for Spoonflower. Their printable fabrics make it really fun and easy to create custom faces for your puppets – you could even give your child a series of circles to … Read On! There’s More!  OK, so maybe temperatures are in the upper 80′s here in PDX this week, but it’s still time to get excited about cooler temperatures and scarf-wearing. I love this Fall scarf I made for Spoonflower. It combines a layer of gauzy voile with a layer of flannel, so it’s very lightweight, but still nice and … Read On! There’s More!  Photoshop wizardry here by Kirby Harris. I’m thrilled to have another tutorial over at the Spoonflower blog this week! I came up with this one based on how much I love voting in their weekly fabric contests. Have you ever voted in these things? They’re an awesome work distraction. And at the end of voting, you … Read On! There’s More! |
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