happy stuff.

this one’s for you, georgia! today, i’ll show you how to make a blinking firefly from a flashlight. it is my favorite style of crafting–make-it-up-as-you-go-along–so feel free to adjust my instructions according to whatever materials you have at hand. materials i used: led flashlight — “pen light” style (here’s a photo in case that helps) [...]

i spent part of my day today at work making a plate of pancakes.  i spent another part of my day transforming this: into this… which ultimately became this: and then i made two more just like it, for a grand total of three fireflies with real flashing hind ends!  they’re props for a preschooler’s [...]

yippeee!  today one of my items was featured on the front page of etsy for a few hours!  it was part of a beautiful treasury built by my very dear friend, “poor robin” (which you can see here) and basically meant i got a lot more shop hearts and item hearts.  i’d just changed my [...]

hmmm… that was a pretty loooooong weekend, wasn’t it?  i have had some really fantastic crafty sessions this last week (see “licky” above–my second needlefelted finger puppet monster), and now i have so much to share with you and to add to my etsy shop that i’m feeling a bit overwhelmed.  so tonight, just a [...]

i am teetering at the top of a tantalizing four day weekend in which i hope to do a nice chunk of crafting.  in order to facilitate this, i am self-imposing a blog (and google reader) fast.  i don’t know if i’ll be able to go for four whole days without reading or writing a [...]

i mailed off my first etsy sale today (thanks, rebekah!). one of my photos was featured in another treasury! i’m afraid etsy’s become a bit of an obsession for me…. i’m sure the excitement will die down eventually, but i’m really looking forward to the day when i can post some of my more recent [...]

today, i got an e-mail from a 3-year old friend of mine.  it went like this (edited just a bit to preserve privacy): CAKE BOOK MACHiNE GOWN CROWN WATER CAT GO STOP HAY STACK ROCKET SQUARE SHEEP DOG FROG FLY SHARK DUST DUCK POOP PANTS YARN RECYCLE BUBBLE BEAR isn’t that great?!  it totally cracked [...]

i’ve finally taken the etsy plunge.  thanks to the helpful tips and vigorous encouragement of beans (with her awesome crafterall knowledge) last weekend i was able to take some more photos of the things i have to sell, wade through the nuts and bolts of posting an item for sale, and subsequently get picked right [...]

this morning, i noticed what a nice sharp silhouette my cereal bowl made against the back of my chair, so i grabbed my camera to take a picture and look who walked into my shot!

i have had the best weekends lately!  this past weekend beans drove down to visit.  it was the weekend of the wisconsin film festival and they were going to show handmade nation and we both wanted to see it, so we planned a whole weekend of fun together. on friday night, we enjoyed dinner at [...]