Holidays are a perfect time to engage kids with fun crafts. These little turkeys have become a yearly tradition for my daycare children, and they just love making them and munching on the supplies :o) You’ll need: 1 apple, mini-marshmallows, craisins, candy corn, some toothpicks, and your rendition of a turkey profile (cut out of […]
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Just confirmed! My crafty friend Kait and I will be selling some wares at the Artists & Fleas indoor craft market in sunny Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Saturday, December 12. More soon with a preview of what we’ll have available, but for now, all you need to know is this: hearts, mustaches, plaid flannel, and cheeseburgers. […]
Then you need to visit my new favorite website : Regretsy.com These folks peruse etsy.com (everyone’s favorite hand-made marketplace), find the best of bad crafts, and add their commentary. It’s hysterical. Their tag line is “Handmade? It looks like you made it with your feet…” Check out the latest posts on the homepage, but make […]
The question Big A and I try to answer on this blog is “What are you making today?” Well, today, I’m making two things — excuses and plans. My excuse for not posting in a while is that, once again, I’m moving to a new apartment. Six years in New York and this will be […]
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Sep
Sep
Back in June, I blogged about my hairdresser’s pregnancy with her first baby. Quick recap: She and her husband chose to be surprised by the baby’s sex. She had a premonition that the baby was a girl. And a dream of her “passed-on” grandma told of a girl…..remember? I knitted a pretty pink blanket because […]
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Sep
Sep
Since getting the Martha Stewart Craft Encyclopedia, all I can think about is etching glass. Obsessed. Everything clear I see begs the question “can I etch that?” (it’s a little weird when I say it out loud in a store, trust me). Within a week, I had bought some simple juice glasses and a simple […]
This was the cutest pattern I’d seen in a long time. And, lucky me, it was the last one in the file cabinet at JoAnn’s! I love it when that happens…it makes me feel like I am really on to something, and “too bad, so sad” for the next person looking for that pattern. (A […]
I have a lot of fabric. I’m not really sure where it all came from, but it’s clear that the quilter’s proverb “she who dies with the biggest stash wins” is one I take seriously. I might just be out to set the world record and become the Michael Phelps of fabric collecting. I collect […]
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Jul
Jul
My sister-in-law, Linda, once told me that Christmas is like a part-time job. There is always so much to do, that I have to agree. Although a chorus of “Dominick the Donkey” can lift my mood and put me in the holiday spirit, I get totally stressed by thoughts of gift-giving, decorating, baking, handmade gifts, […]
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Jul
Jul
My niece, Diane. has had a true love for horses since the age of 5, when she enjoyed her first pony ride. Throughout the years, she has taken endless riding lessons, mucked many stalls, and done just about anything she could to remain close and helpful to these beautiful animals. One year, for Christmas, I […]
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Jul
Jul
Like most moms, there’s almost nothing that my kids ask of me that I will not oblige. I’ll help solve any problems, make frustrating phone calls, write checks…whatever. I’ll even risk breaking my hip in a fall while standing on a 2-foot spackle bucket atop a 6-foot step-ladder to hang wallpaper in a small Brooklyn […]
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Jul
Jul
I was asked by my best friend and his fiance, who is Jewish, to make a chuppah for their wedding. Should it have come as a surprise that while I had been to a same-sex wedding before, I had never been to a Jewish wedding? Probably not, but, because that was the case, I said […]
Am I a Martha Stewart fan? Hard to say. I’ve always admired the fresh, clean look of her decorating and the impressive ways in which she fastidiously organizes her home and all her craft supplies, and I love the ways that she displays her expansive collections of dishes, pottery and linens. Her bouquets are breathtaking, […]
There is no denying it. I’m a Martha-phile. The Saturday mornings of my adolescence and teenage years were spent watching Martha Stewart Living, basking in the beauty and order she sought to bring into America’s homes. Sure it wasn’t realistic to think anyone had the time to do half of things she did on that […]
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Jun
Jun
The little potholder that I purchased at the flea market (see Mother’s Day – Our official “kick-off”) was so sweet that I had to crochet one just like it. After many failed attempts to copy this little gem (it looked easy!), I gave up and started my search. Although the pattern I found was not […]