Category: Crafty
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Crafty things
So…I got the job! I’ll be starting tomorrow afternoon at Moxie & the Compound and Plume. It’s the cutest little boutique, with lots of hand-made stuff, and the owners are super-cool. I’m excited to get in there and start organizing things, and be familiar with all the designers and their wares. It may be a…
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Crafty night
Saturday night Shara, Leti, and I got together for some craftiness and general girlie fun. Shara brought delicious snacks…mimosas, baguette, Nutella, and Brie. I had a pot of lentil soup on the stove, and we ate, talked, laughed, and crafted. We’ve been considering starting a website to sell a few of our handcrafted goods. Shara’s…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is the valentine I made for my wonderful husband. Our last stitchy gathering was focused around quilling, and though I started the evening embroidering my tablecloth (have I showed that to you yet? I’ll have to post that soon), it wasn’t long before I was up to my elbows in paper, quilling like a…
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I made a skirt!
Yesterday my creative juices started flowing in the late afternoon. I had bought lots of fun fabric recently, but being the saver that I am, I was too scared to cut into it. (I was afraid I’d just waste it or mess it up.) In the past few days, I’ve been wanting to take more…
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Re-use!
I’m a paper junkie. When I go to a craft store, I linger in the scrapbook paper aisle. I don’t do scrapbooks. I just like the paper. It’s very hard for me to throw away magazines, and I have 9 or 10 separate journals (some lined, some not lined, some tiny, some huge, some spiral…