Archive for the ‘diy’ Category
tomato plants are ALL coming out today. It’s hard to say goodbye sometimes. Today I will plan our very very late fall garden and I’ll go get some starts at Annie’s tomorrow. Please lord let Jack not be sick tomorrow!!
The backyard is pleasingly bursting forth with the harvest. Farmer Jack and I went out this morning and picked an assload (
Here are the two cape tutorials I have made for this years swap-o-rama-rama @ maker faire. wheee! I can’t wait!
I’m trying to decide where to plant the 2 little yarrow plants that i bought last weekend. I’ve got clay soil and that right there means that i haven’t got a place where yarrow will be super super happy. – flowers are good for drying and are nicely aromatic – has a bunch of medicinal [...]
doll bedding, a photo by Minnibird on Flickr. I bought this little balsa wood doll bed the other day and then decided that it needed a mattress and bedding. I sewed the mattress and pillow with yellow ticking and stuffed them with poly fill. I used an old Holly Hobby sheet to make a fitted [...]
I’m excited about the Eat Real Festival this weekend happening at Jack London Square. I’ll be hanging around from 10am to 1pm doing something unspecified with the Oakland Museum of California and then I plan on hanging out and seeing stuff. Like the chicken 101 class and the goat milking demo. See whole weekend schedule [...]
I went swimsuit shopping this year and there just was nothing good out there. There was one super cute looking Betsy Johnson suit I saw online but it was sold out everywhere (hello pink plaid school girl suit!). The ones I got at Target are cute (and cheap) but will probably go back. I realized [...]
Witness one pair of cute slingback sketchers from several years ago. boooring but cute. I swear to god the first time I looked at the label for these it was leather upper but no, synthetic, which seems more likely for a pair of 30.00 shoes. Despite that I trundled forward and used leather dye on [...]
Two things I want to have as soon as we buy a house: a clothes line and chickens. I want a Rhode Island Red, at least one! Check out this hilarious backyard chicken coop hat is disguised as a trashcan I also like this movable chicken coop from My Backyard Chicken Farm. GreenFoot has an [...]
I think I forgot to post my finished bicycle skirt. Here it is! A crappy picture of it anyway. It’s hard sometimes to take a good picture of yourself. It’s not that my camera doesn’t have a self timer but more about shot setup. I could have gone outside with the good camera and tripod [...]
A couple of weeks ago I decided that I must make a Blurb book of Jack’s first and second year and all subsequent years so that he would have them when he grows up all nice and neat in a row and he could see what a happy fun handsome baby he was. And then [...]
I mentioned on a previous screamything post that I was entering a slight manic phase. I’m not sure that’s exactly true but I have 3 brazillion projects right now. I was in Peidmont Fabrics the other day when my hand reached out for this gorgeous Liberty of London cotton lawn print. I mean look at [...]
Were do you get your fabric? I think we all have our go-to local fabric store – for me, the big chain store is Joannes. Joannes is fine for cheapish everyday fabrics. The Joannes near me recently closed and so I had to journey to a nearby town to go find one but that one [...]
The explosion in the past few years of the craft and DIY space has been amazing to watch. People can craft in their spare time and then use the internet to reach a broad audience of like minded people. Consumers want unique items that really meet their needs in a way that mass produced things [...]
Hey! So, I’m interviewing all the vendors for the upcoming You Bazaar in SF. My first one is with Hae Eun Park of Planet Tokki. The fair is November 2nd at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park and is focusing on hand made Plush Art. Here is the description from the [...]
We did it! The labyrinth is built, mostly! Read my previous post about our planned labyrinth here. We chose a spot a little closer to the Container house as the labyrinth ended up being a bit bigger than I thought. I _think_it ended up being about 16 feet across each spiral. We spent two days [...]
I purchased the wonder jacket pattern quite a while ago and have finally tried it out. MAN. It is CUTE. and EASY. and FAST. I really like how each size has it’s own pattern paper. I would have been seriously annoyed it I had to use chalk to size it. This one is size 2. [...]
So there I am, sorting through my fantabulous button tin and what happens? My kid wakes up. Goodbye buttons! But then we are peacefully playing upstairs and I think, “Surely I could just open this one and sort out the little boring ones”. So I do. And then I turn around for ONE SECOND. And [...]
Five Auspicious Clouds Originally uploaded by not halfway there A while back I told KT that I would try to plan out a labyrinth for the ranch property. KT, MamaPajama and I scouted out a decent location near Kt’s house in progress. I’m not exactly sure what prompted me to want to do this. Labyrinths [...]
Like a YEAR ago I read something on someone’s blog that has been disturbing me ever since. She was making a distinction between Homemade VS Handmade work. Now, normally I would consider this distinction to be about whether or not one used ONLY ones hands to produce an item or whether one used a machine [...]
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Indie Crafts- Hello My name is Missy…: Illustration Friday – Twirl February 3, 2012
- Feminist Ryan Gosling February 2, 2012
- SF Bay Area Etsy Street Team: Savvy Entrepreneur: Build A Plan For Success February 2, 2012
- Crafty & Connected February 2, 2012
- Popular Gawker Artists Art Prints | Society6 February 1, 2012
- VIXEN Unicycle DK by littleredbicycle on Etsy January 31, 2012
- Crafting in the Rain: Duck Tape Covered Boots January 27, 2012
- Do you have a GIRL CRUSH? January 26, 2012
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Selling Successfully on Etsy {Guest Post by Cath Young} « Epheriell Designs January 26, 2012
- 53 Brilliant knitted food patterns – mdolla January 26, 2012
