Thanks so much to those of you who left comments on my last post! I’m excited but also terrified of this undertaking and it was really bolstering to read through the suggestions and encouragements. I’m feeling very ready to start tackling all the decisions that need to be made. Time to get organized and dig in! Which of course means first I need to completely overhaul my craft room and redo my site design. Right? My craft room is a … More
Author: hillary
peekaboo
I couldn’t take it any longer. I had to put aside my must-do-now projects and take some time to make myself a stuffed. I finally got back to the big footed bunny design I’ve been wanting for over a year to redo. I’m very happy with this bunny girl. She’s huggable and floppy. And look she has poms! (thanks Patricia!) Peekaboo — Tim named her and I think his Olympic fever is showing — came together very easily but her … More
the luckiest girl in town
I’ve been holding out on you. I’ve been waiting for just the right amount of sun (sunny but not too sunny) to take this picture. And well, that day isn’t coming so it’s just going to have to be today. I wanted to share one of the most wonderful presents I’ve ever received, a small quilt from Angry Amy Chicken. I love it so much I can’t even say. It warms my cockles. It’s so good I want to … More
hurry christmas hurry fast
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Christmas is on!
We are in full-on Christmas spirit mode over here. finally! And here are a few Christmas presents coming off the assembly line… a Jess Hutch robot
and some stockings for the boy and his father to match the one I have from when I was a kid…
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experiments
Inspired by purldrop‘s beautiful and inventive crocheted bead necklaces I’ve been trying to make a quilted necklace. I haven’t quite figured out how to weight it yet so it lays flat. In the mean time I sewed this botched attempt to my favorite old petit bateau t-shirt which has seen better
days and needed a spruce up.
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crazy = cool
man I’m predictable. every year I go through a scour-ebay-for-crazy-vintage-ornaments phase. the next phase will be the I-need-every-wooden-german-christmas-ornament-ever-made phase. I’m enjoying phase 1 immensely this year.
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