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A little snapshot from the Craft Social…

January 13, 2010

A Snapshot from the Craft Social from Diane Gilleland on Vimeo.

So, just in case you missed the Craft Social event on Twitter today (or you aren’t on Twitter), I thought I’d share this little video shapshot of what it was like. (There’s a larger frame version here.

Quite. A. Ride. Kind of like a huge crafty [...]

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Coming to the Craft Social tomorrow?

January 12, 2010

In case you’re on Twitter and have somehow missed my incessant mentions of this, Barbara and I are hosting a Craft Social there tomorrow. The event happens from 1-3pm Eastern time (that’s 10-noon Pacific). Hope you can join us!

You can get some background at the project’s website that Barbara was kind enough to set [...]

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Introducing: Make & Meaning!

December 10, 2009

Here’s another chapter in the “New projects I haven’t had time to blog about” saga.
A while back, Paul Overton (of Dudecraft fame) and I got to emailing. Paul had a great idea for a blog that would explore the meaningful aspects of making things – whether that be craft, fine arts, cooking, carpentry, model-building, you [...]

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Indie Publishing Stories, Part 2: The New CRAFT!

December 3, 2009

You may be aware that our beloved CRAFT just re-launched as an online magazine. And although there is a company behind it, I still think it’s a great indie publishing story.

As a print magazine, CRAFT was the bomb-diggety. It always featured a wider variety of making than I’ve seen in any other printed craft magazine, [...]

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CraftyPod #103: Keeping Up with the Crafty Internet, with One Pretty Thing’s Rachel Klein

November 6, 2009
Thumbnail image for CraftyPod #103: Keeping Up with the Crafty Internet, with One Pretty Thing’s Rachel Klein

 

In this show:

- With so many blogs, so many projects, and so much crafty Goodness on the web every day, how can we hope to keep up? Rachel Klein, of One Pretty Thing, gives us some tips.

- Learn how Rachel manages to read over 4000 blogs and websites each week, rounding up the best links [...]

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A Giveaway at The Sister Project

September 21, 2009

Happy New Week, everyone! I wanted to let you know about a giveaway in progress over at The Sister Project.
The wonderful women there are giving away a copy of my weaving ebook, just in time for Fall crafting. To enter, here’s what they ask you to do:
“Weave a tale for us about what crafty undertaking [...]

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Check Out Craftig!

August 11, 2009

Here’s a cool new crafty resource for all of us – Craftig, a crafty social bookmarking website.
What is social bookmarking? Well it works like this…
Let’s say you find a craft tutorial you really like. You want to be able to find it on the web again, and you want to let others know about it. [...]

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Smub for Crafters

July 20, 2009

I have something a little techy for you today – but if you’re a crafter who shares links to interesting websites on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or others, you might find this useful.

I’ve been playing around with a new service called Smub lately. It’s a nifty little tool that makes saving and sharing web links much [...]

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A Little Housekeeping Note

July 12, 2009

After thinking about it for way too long, I’ve finally installed a new comment-management system on this here blog. It’s called DISQUS, and it’s dandy.

You won’t notice a whole lot of difference, except that it’s now easier for you to reply to other people’s comments here, which is cool for fostering discussion. (See the lower [...]

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Check out Soap Queen TV!

April 30, 2009

Okay, this is something cool for everybody! If you’ve ever wanted to dabble in soap-making, you’ll want to check out Soap Queen TV. It’s a 17-week series of free how-to videos by Anne-Marie Faiola. She’s the proprietress of Bramble Berry, which sells all kinds of soap and candle-making supplies.

The first episode just went live. It’s [...]

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