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I’ve been stressed lately with the thought of all my STUFF. I love stuff. It makes me feel cozy and at home. But I also know that I have TOO MUCH stuff. And that I might rely on stuff a little too much. I’m used to my stuff collection habits but would like to change [...]

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I do not need a serger but I sure would like one! Think of the pretty seams and the rad cutting thingy! It means I could have decent looking unlined items, and that’s the rub, lining stuff is a pain in the ass but if you don’t line stuff it looks like shit. Will I [...]

I’ve always been a bit of a homebody. I recall my second semester of college living at the coop in Austin – everyone else: taking drugs and going out, me: taking drugs and staying home on the couch reading waiting for everyone else to come home. Okay, maybe it was just that one time with [...]

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First off I am testing scribefire to post this. I hope it works correctly. I made the mistake of leaving the house today and it means that I bought a bunch of crap. But, score! I got some good stuff. Including some jeans and footie pajamas for Jack and a pair of boxers with robots [...]

Mamapajama informed me that people make a whole piece of clothing out of muslin before they make it out of the actual fabric to make sure it fits right and stuff.  “MADNESS”, I said.. However, I decided to do just that in order to make some steampunk inspired spats for Whump. I’ve never amde ones [...]

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I started working on my spats pattern this week. For now I am creating it in illustrator. I can save it as a pdf and give it to people, that way, they can print it out at whatever size they need it to be. Tthat seems better than making it like a normal printed pattern [...]

  HOOT Originally uploaded by not halfway there. This is my first freezer paper stencil attempt. it came out great! i was worried that my impatiently cut out letters would turn out crappy but really, you can’t notice too much that the O’s aren’t round and are a bit jagged. Vim and I “HOOT” at [...]

Have you ever gone to a framing shop thinking eagerly and excitedly about how nice your art will look hanging up on your wall? have you gone in, picked out a nice mat, a gorgeous frame only to have them tell you it will cost 300$ to fucking put it all together?   well, I [...]