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A little tribute to Bob Ross on his birthday

A little tribute to Bob Ross on his birthday

A Bob Ross landscape Today would have been the 69th birthday of Bob Ross. And if you don’t know who Bob was, it’s high time you met him! In the U.S., many of us grew up with The Joy of Painting on public television – a perfectly mesmerizing show in which a soft-spoken man with amazing …

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Major demolition has concluded. It’s now safe to move about the blog.

Major demolition has concluded. It’s now safe to move about the blog.

Surpriiiiiiise! A few routine (but very belated) blog updates led to a big ol’ crash yesterday, which in turn led to this new bloggy look. I’m not 1000% in love, but I actually have plans to move this whole thing to another platform in a few months, so this’ll do for now. Anyway, I’m multitasking …

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Ask and You Shall Receive (a Facebook Page)

Ask and You Shall Receive (a Facebook Page)

Thanks, y’all, for all your feedback on whether a CraftyPod Facebook page would be useful. Enough of you answered in the affirmative that I went ahead and set one up. Don’t worry – I won’t pester you to Like me or anything. If you can use it, my blog feed will be there. And if …

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Skillshare: Teach in Your Community

Skillshare: Teach in Your Community

Image by Amber Karnes, via Flickr If you’re looking to add a new income stream to your craft business, teaching classes in your local community might be a good option. Skillshare is an online community marketplace for offline classes. You can scope out a teaching location in your community, and then submit your class idea through …

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Pssst: Take the CRAFT Reader Survey?

Pssst: Take the CRAFT Reader Survey?

Image by Jessica Wilson Hey, everyone – if you’re a reader of CRAFT, where I’m now Editor-in-Chief, can you please take a moment and fill our our new Reader Survey? We want to know more about who’s reading us these days. What do you want to see more of on the site? What would you like …

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Assorted Things I was Interested in Sharing

Assorted Things I was Interested in Sharing

  Today, I have a lot of news and tidbits for you. Kind of a crazy-quilt post, I guess. First up, I just wanted to share the above results of a swap we just completed over at Craft Social. For Valentine’s Day, we had a little I Heart Craft Social swap on Swap-Bot. On the left …

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A video game made from craft supplies. Seriously.

A video game made from craft supplies. Seriously.

I’ve been debating whether to blog about this for months now, since it’s a video game and this is not a video game blog. But, my friends, it’s a whole video game made ot craft supplies, so you really should see it. (Also, full disclosure, my enjoyment of this game juuuuust ticked over into full-on …

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This is happening, and that is happening

This is happening, and that is happening

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are a few news items to start off your week: First, if you’re around tomorrow, I hope you can join us for the Craft Social! It’s a monthly Twitter chat event Barbara and I organize. We have a different dicussion topic each month – and the February topic is Teaching Your …

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A Little Silhouette Project (and some Silhouette answers)

A Little Silhouette Project (and some Silhouette answers)

I wanted to check back in with the Silhouette – partly, to share this little project I’m making for my favorite girl, and partly to answer your questions about the machine! So, in addition to cutting paper and vinyl, the Silhouette has two kinds of iron-on transter material: smooth and flocked. I thought it might be …

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A Charity Crafting Contest, from Jo-Ann

A Charity Crafting Contest, from Jo-Ann

If you’re a fan of crafty activism, here’s a contest you might want to check out. Jo-Ann is organizing Craft for a Cause, and it works like this: • Crafters from all over are making useful things and donating them to their favorite charities. If you take photos of what you made, you can enter them …

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