Posted in crafts, personal, tagged Christmas crafts, crafts, felt flower pin, style on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite my utterly INSANE schedule, I took some time off last Sunday to craft and recharge.
Front:
Back:
Three Ways to Wear:
Hair
Hat
Lapel
I cut up several layers of red craft felt freehand and sewed them together at the center with a cluster of French knots. I used a felt loop at the back instead of sewing on a pinback [...]
Posted in crafts, download, holidays, tagged crafts, downloads, greeting cards, handmade, holidays, papercraft, valentines on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you remember, I posted last year about how I like to reserve most of my Valentine’s Day energies for celebrating my friendships rather than buying into all of the sugar-crazed, hyper-commercialized craziness. This year, since I’m long distance with D, I sent him a little package of homemade goodies just to mark the day [...]
Posted in bento, crafts, food, tagged bento, crafts, food, greeting cards on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hooray. I’m too lazy to think of a creative title for this post. But really, how else could I have worded it? The items I have to show you really are sort of a hodge-podge. I’ll have a valentine’s craft update coming soon. I’m working on completing gifts [...]
Posted in crafts, holidays, personal, tagged crafts, handmade, holidays, jewelry, needle arts, painting on January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s a new semester, and a new year. I have two new roommates again (one of them remained the same, one changed, and we added a fourth this semester), and a new schedule of classes, as well as a bunch of new commitments (in addition to Bible Study, I’m doing a once a week [...]
Posted in crafts, grad school, holidays, personal, tagged crafts, jewelry, photography, wirework on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My blog has had an inexplicably high number of hits today. According to my dashboard stats, it’s some sort of record. And I have no idea why (if anyone knows of any high-traffic outside links that are coming here, I’d be very curious to find out). Strangely enough, the top post appears to be my [...]
Posted in crafts, grad school, writing on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thank God, I managed to get to California in once piece (albeit slightly disoriented), had a wonderful, if brief, stay (my friend was a beautiful, beautiful bride; I was able to catch up with some old friends; I spent lots of wonderful, and much-needed, QT with my boyfriend – and now am having a hard [...]
Posted in crafts, tagged bridal, cardmaking, crafts, mother's day, papercraft, weddings on May 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Hi, happy readers. I’m asking for your help.
I’m designing the invitation for a mini bridal shower that I’m helping to plan for one of my close school friends, and I’d like some feedback on the mockup I’ve made:
What do you think? Should I get rid of the words on top? Should I [...]
Posted in crafts, personal, tagged collage, mixed media art on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My poor readers. I can almost hear you groaning and rolling your eyes. “FINALLY,” you say, throwing your hands up in the air, “she is doing a backpost…about time, lady!” My apologies. But yes – here it is…the first in a series of…oh gosh, well – many.
This is a piece of [...]
Posted in crafts, holidays, tagged crafts, cross, palm, tutorial on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In the last post, I showed you how to make one version of a palm cross. Here is its sister tutorial, which will show you how to make a second, fancier-looking version. A note of acknowledgment: this is basically a photo version of this line-drawing tutorial, with my own directionality aids and suggestions added [...]
Posted in crafts, holidays, tagged palm sunday, tutorial on March 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Today is Palm Sunday, when Christians celebrate the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem a week before his death (Palm Sunday also marks the beginning of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter). This year we actually received palm branches in church (I’ve been going to nondenominational churches out here at school…and not all [...]
