November 8, 2009
· Filed under craft tools, selling · Tagged hat, photos, styrofoam, styrofoam head
I still haven’t got around to decorating my styrofoam head, but I went ahead and used it to display a hat for picture-taking the other day. It worked great!
Also, Sallie and I went to a thrift store yesterday and I noticed that they had quite a few styrofoam heads with hats on them. And someone had drawn faces in marker on a few of them. Which looked kinda silly, but also cute. I’m half tempted to do that with mine, but I think paper mache will probably look a lot better. Although… well, the head was only a couple of dollars. And the store had a whole mountain of them. I could buy another one…
November 1, 2009
· Filed under projects · Tagged picture, pumpkin, witch, witch hat
of the witch hat that broke my sewing machine:
October 31, 2009
· Filed under craft tools · Tagged broken, halloween, sewing machine, witch hat
I made Sallie a witch hat for halloween, which turned out quite-well-if-I-do-say-so-myself, but I also broke the sewing machine in the process. 
October 20, 2009
· Filed under gifts · Tagged dick blick, gifts, presents, shopping
S got a gift certificate for Dick Blick art supplies last year for her birthday. She’s looked at their website several times, but she keeps putting off actually spending it, so last night she finally said that I could go spend it. I felt a little silly doing that, since it was her present, but I think she feels better not having it sitting there waiting, even though it doesn’t expire for five years.
I decided to shop their website as if I was shopping for presents for Sallie, so that made it more fun. It’s going to be an exciting package to get in the mail! I ordered lots of small things, so it will take a while to unpack everything, and each object will be like its own little treasure. I hope she likes what I picked out. I think she will.
October 19, 2009
· Filed under craft tools, other people's awesome crafts, selling · Tagged crafts, etsy, pictures, supplies
Imagine what you could make with these! You can bet I am imagining all over the place. 
click pictures to visit etsy listings
October 18, 2009
· Filed under projects, yarn stash · Tagged creation, destruction, guilt, pleasure, silk
I bought a red sweater at a thrift store yesterday, thinking that I was going to wear it, but I didn’t have time to try it on before the store closed. And then when I tried it on at home, S laughed at me because it looked so silly. The sleeves were strangely puffy, and the torso was way too short. So now it’s in the unraveling pile, but I feel bad about that because it’s obvious that the sweater was handmade. A handmade sweater is much harder to justify unraveling because you know there was an actual person behind its creation, not just a machine. It’s a unique item that someone put loads and loads of time into. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s anyone who could wear this particular sweater without looking absurd.
Alas! I will try to be respectful in my destruction and create something lovely with the yarn.
And here is something I mentioned a few posts ago, a silk necktie bracelet with wire and beads added to it:
(I photographed it on top of the red sweater!)
October 13, 2009
· Filed under projects, selling · Tagged hat, head, styrofoam, paper mache, donations
Please excuse the pun. I couldn’t help it.
I really did buy a head last night. A styrofoam head. I am going to paper mache it, and then use it to display hats on when I take pictures of them for etsy. I am looking forward to the paper mache project, because I don’t think I’ve done that since elementary school! I hope we have some white glue.
Anyway, here’s a hat that I made this weekend with some yarn that my dear friend L gave me. It was lovely to see her! I hope that we do get to visit NY city in November. I made this hat all in one day, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I decided to donate it to a bakesale/raffle thingy that my mom is doing as a fundraiser for the food shelf in my hometown. I hope someone will love it and take it home! It makes me happy to think of things I make going to someone who will love them.
October 5, 2009
· Filed under other people's awesome crafts, selling · Tagged beautiful, funny, links, regretsy
Gee, I hope none of my etsy items ever end up here: Regretsy.com. I’ve added this to my “distractions” category of bookmarks, so I can learn what not to try to sell and keep myself entertained all at the same time!
Here are some beautiful etsy items for contrast. Click on pictures for listings.
October 4, 2009
· Filed under yarn stash · Tagged scrap ball, scrap yarn, sweaters, thrifted, unraveling
Another benefit to unravelling thrift store sweaters is that I get a lot of little scraps of yarn that are just the right size to add to my scrap ball.
