It’s all well and good to have the ability to blog while I’m on the road, but having things to blog about is another matter entirely. There has been precious little crafting going on since we arrived in Maryland on Friday night. The last 3 days have been basically filled with watching people watch my child. They just all sit …
Allie loves having her Aunt Laura in town. I love it, too, because while the two of them play/eat/nap together I can actually get stuff done. Unfortunately, none of the stuff I got done today was blog-worthy. So I figured since I can’t provide any decent content today, I’d direct you toward some people who can. My friend Heather at …
I don’t have a craft today because I’m busy cleaning up the craft room in anticipation of my sister visiting. Whoever had the idea that the craft room should double as the guest room was insane. Oh, it was me? Huh. She’ll be here all next week, and then Allie and I are flying back east with her next Friday …
I love the look of whitewashed kraft paper, don’t you? This incredibly simple card was made with Distress Stain in Picket Fence. This is a semi-opaque fluid ink, which makes it slightly different from the rest of the Distress Stain line. Because it’s fluid, it creates a slight watercolor effect when you stamp with it, which adds to the soft …
I’ve spent the last couple days playing with a bunch of new Tsukineko products that they just got in stock at MLO. I don’t think I’ve properly appreciated their variety of inks and stamping products in the past, but boy is that about to change. I’ve long considered their Memento ink in Tuxedo Black to be the best for Copics, …
So I had a bit of a rude awakening when I got my new computer a few weeks ago. Apparently my iPhoto library was clocking in at 86 gigs and almost 16 thousand photos. I knew the vast majority of my photos were trash, but never bothered to clean them up. I don’t so much have that luxury anymore, though. …