Today marks the official transition from pumpkins and ghosts and costumes to…pumpkins and turkey and pie. The weather here in the SF Bay is finally turning a little colder, and if you look really hard you may even find a deciduous tree with colored foliage. So, happy Fall! I don’t know about you, but to me, nothing says fall like …
A couple weeks ago Allie received a little care package from her Auntie Laura and Grandmommy. It contained a collection of bows that even I have to admit were pretty darn adorable. I asked Laura to write up a little how-to for each one, so here they are: All ribbon is 3/8 inch grosgrain unless otherwise noted. Laura and my …
While our family and friends back east hunker down for Sandy, we here are on the left coast are prepping for a whole different kind of storm. Hurricane Grandmommy is scheduled to touch down on Saturday night, and since my craft room doubles as our guest room, I have a LOT of cleaning to do. Of course, I also have …
I’m at MLO for the afternoon, working on cards for one of my upcoming classes. The benefit of working here is I’ve got lots of space to spread out. Of course, the more I spread out, the more I have to clean up. Generally I have to start packing up about an hour before I plan to actually leave…which would …
Pink Persimmon has a really cute line of ATC-sized stamps that look like vintage button cards. They’re great for ATCs, because those vintage cards are little works of art themselves, and it’s a lot of fun to try to recreate them. I stamped this one onto a sheet of gleaming white xpress-it blending card and colored it with Copics. Then …
I just received a full screen printing kit from Jacquard Products. Jacquard makes a ton of really awesome art products geared toward fabric artists. This is one of those times it pays to have friends in high places. One of my sorority sisters works for Jacquard, and she asked me if I’d demo their screen printing kits on the blog. …