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craft books

Cute crafts and exciting craft book news
 Friends of mine have an adorable daughter who turned one on the weekend, so a present was in order! Her favourite hairstyle is what my mother used to refer to as Whalespouts, and since she’s so horribly cute, I figured I’d continue my grandmother’s tradition and make her a portrait doll. I loved the upside …


Fringe Fringe Fringe
 


Oh, surprises are so hard to sit on!

July 9, 2009 So I’ve been making a lot of stuff recently, but it’s all for an upcoming Fringe theatre show, so I can’t really show you. Otherwise it wont be a surprise and a joy for those of you who see the show itself. I know I shared Totem dolls as I found them on the net, …


Fast punch history lesson


A friend of mine asked a question about doileys over email, and I sent her a Rambling Fast Punch History of Craft Lesson in reply. So I figured I’d share it. ___ The traditional spelling of doiley is actually D’oyleys. It would be a great comfort to me if you could use the correct term …


Home Made Help book on presale now!

July 2, 2009

I’ve just got this email and I’m so excited I wanted to share it with you right away!For those of you who don’t know, the Handmade Help blog put a call out for family recipes to combine into a book for the victims of the Black Saturday bushfires. They’ve lost everything, including treasured old family …


craft book quicky

June 23, 2009

Surely the whole of the Australian internet craft community know of the great and wonderful Pip Lincoln and her Meet Me At Mikes – store, blog and book. Plus, she runs Brown Owls, a crafty community who come together to make, eat, drink and be happy, of which I am a proud member. Pip is …


Crafty Library continuations
 Firstly, I’m one artist’s story from finishing Handmade Nation by Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl which is really interesting. It’s got essays in the middle of it’s interviews by people like Andrew Wagner, the senior editor of American Craft magazine and Garth Johnson, who runs Extreme Craft and is a favourite of mine. Betsy Greer …


June 6, 2009 So I’ve been running around all week working on a film, I cooked an ace thing and photographed a bunch of cool stuff but can’t find my blasted camera cord, AGAIN, so all those ace images are still trapped in my camera. So instead I figured I’d talk about the other thing that’s been on …


OOooooo… I hate it when that happens
 


Nerdy obsession?
 On the weekend I attended a fancy dress party with the theme of Nerdy Obsessions. In between the storm troopers, star trek uniforms, miriad of Dr Who’s and random Lord of the Rings characters, there was one girl in blue jeans, knitted cardigan, with beanie, scarf and clutching double pointed needles which had the beginnings …

