Hobby Shopping

(See what I did there?) I didn’t get a chance to make anything yesterday, because I spent the day shopping instead. I found out a craft store about 45 minutes from here is going out of business, and they have their entire stock priced at 40% off. I had to go. 40% off. Since I’d already blown through my craft …

New Toy Tuesday: Paper Trimmer

Technically I’ve been using this paper trimmer long enough that it doesn’t qualify as new, but it is one of my newer acquisitions, and it’s also the one tool that I think every papercrafter should have*. I’m going to get into specifics here, because not all paper trimmers–not even all Fiskars trimmers–are created equal. There are three basic types: the …

New Toy Tuesday: Christmas Dies

Tuesday is laundry day at here at the hobby hop house. That means most of my day is dedicated to things that are decidedly un-hobbyish. Of course, what that doesn’t mean is that I don’t still need some kind of daytime craft fix. So I thought, from now on, instead of doing crafts on Tuesdays, I’d just write about craft …