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Having taken one million photo courses in past lives I have a it engrained in me that one must not digitally alter ones photos after processing. It’s bullshit of course. The zone system can bite me. I plan on altering the shit out of any photos I take if that is what suits me and [...]
My sister traveled to England recently and lamented the fact that she couldn’t find any suitably hilarious punk commemorative tea towels. So, obviously, I had to quickly dash off a few Sex Pistols inspired tea towel designs to Spoonflower for printing. First, the classic calendar style tea towel with sid vicious and some paint splatters: [...]
I always forget how LONG the days at Maker Faire seem when you are a vendor. VERY LONG. Ones eyes and nose start to hurt for some reason. Despite the long days I enjoyed Maker Faire again this year. Sunday morning I felt so sick I thought would die. A bit of food and a [...]
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 [...]
Things I could do today: – sweep the front porch – stress about our 5,000$ LESS than the other bidder bid on the house that is adorable, huge, has cute period details and a SECRET PASSAGE. – work on cleaning the craft room (endless project that will never be done because it has me totally [...]
I’ve spent the last several hours trying to decide what to do today. when Jack gets up from his nap should I take him on some outing? A fun toddler outing to a play cafe or park? Or… should I take off all his clothes and let him run around naked while I putter around [...]
I taught Sunday School at Church of Craft this past Sunday here in Oakland at the Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective. My class was How to make a Freezer Paper Stencil and it was pretty fun and people made some cute stencils. Witness: I made two: a star trek Federation symbol on a black tank top [...]
I think I am finally over Tuesday nights hangover only to have it be replaced by the most heinous cramps in the history of cramps. I’m disassociating from my entire lower half. Below the ribcage I do not exist. I have nothing to wear. In this closet of hugish proportions nothing fits or looks good [...]
*Annoyed* I wrote up a bunch of notes on that previous silk screen post and it is GONE! I must have not hit publish? I went out and bought a couple of Dover clip art books. They are mostly royalty/copyright free images and they come in high res on CDs. Handy! That’s where I got [...]
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 [...]
1. spats for Bazaar Bizarre @ Maker Faire 2009, 2. spats for Bazaar Bizarre @ Maker Faire 2009, 3. spats for Bazaar Bizarre @ Maker Faire 2009, 4. spats for Bazaar Bizarre @ Maker Faire 2009, 5. spats for Bazaar Bizarre @ Maker Faire 2009, 6. spats for Bazaar Bizarre @ Maker Faire 2009, 7. [...]
Vim’s birthday was yesterday and I planned on making him a cheesecake but in the process of looking for a good recipe I found this Godiva recipe for lemon cupcakes with white chocolate lemon cream cheese frosting. I decided to make BOTH. The cupcake recipe calls for taking the cupcake out of it’s wrapper, turning [...]
I finished my dress except for a few odd threads that need to be trimmed oh and I really should stitch down the back of the collar. I finished it last night and suddenly had a very let down feeling, like, THIS IS IT?! BAH HUMBUG. hand making shit is for CHUMPS. But then I [...]
I’ve made a few baby blankets recently. They all came out pretty cute. One of them I forgot to take pictures of!! it was cute – yellow birdseed by alexander henry with green minky and yellow binding and yellow flannel backing. oh wait, here’s one lame picture: Next I made one big and one small [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve not been napping, okay, except for 15 minutes today… I have also been making some spats. Fancier than my usual ones. I do so love picking fabrics, lining, buttons, etc. these are pretty fun to make with only stress surrounding the buttonholes. Sewing on shank buttons is a total bitch, it makes my wrists [...]
And the winner is Shell from Two Sticks and some String Great! I’ve just snooped on her blog and she seems funa nd creative, lives near me somewhere and has a son just a month younger than mine. Woo! I can’t wait to make her a package. Back in the day I used to be [...]
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