Archive for the 'crafting' Category

how to: spill-proof a dining chair

July 11th, 2008

A few years ago, I rescued a set of dining chairs from Urban Ore, one of our favorite places to find treasures. (Also a popular haunt for the MythBusters team.) If you’ve never been, it is thrifter paradise – a giant warehouse of stuff Goodwill and Salvation Army wouldn’t touch – everything from old windows, […]

spoonflower

June 16th, 2008

I was just invited to join Spoonflower, a service for designing and printing your own small batches of fabric. The service is in Beta right now and invite only, but seems very promising. Here is the flickr group of fabrics designed and printed through Spoonflower and projects people have made with those

time Life in legos

June 10th, 2008

all our most famous historical photos captured in legos

fabric in town and projects to add to the list

June 10th, 2008

I’m having trouble concentrating, today, as I want to post these few things before I forget about them. One is a baby sweater that I have been wanting to knit, but resized for Mama! Instructions and great pictures are at FlintKnits. Another is just so sad to me – a new fabric store in San […]

holy guacamole, batman

June 10th, 2008

the kids and their knives (and my weekend sweater)

recycled jewelry

June 3rd, 2008

Found these at Knitphomaniac made from recycled starbucks gift cards. I read a few craft blogs and see a lot of junk, but I thought these were nice re-purposing of what is otherwise garbage.

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