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Beads. My dolls and fabrics are packed away in storage at the moment, my handspun is at Keeper’s Corner, my knitting needles are somewhere and I needed something to do. Not like that’s an actual excuse for me to take up yet another hobby; especially one involving sparkly things, color, and a good potential for [...]

I can (and often do) market the stuffing out of my friends’ creative endeavors. I’m the person with a nice word, the pat on the back, and the confidence building admonitions. But when it’s something I do, something I made, something I’m invested in I lack any kind of confidence. Oh sure, I act like [...]

I’ve almost forgotten how to check my email on my own on a computer, since my phone just notifies me when an account has fresh mail in it. I haven’t really had to check my email since entering in my account information via my Droid because my phone makes sure my email checks on me. [...]

Sooki is the main character in The Saggy Baggy Elephant, he’s happy with himself and life in general until a parrot starts making fun of him. Parrots can be such dicks. Sooki then tries ways to make his skin fit better, mostly by asking predators for advice and putting himself in harms way. Each time [...]

I know it’s Boxing Day, which is usually celebrated here (in the US) by sleeping in late, not having any clue what Boxing Day is about (it’s a Cromwell thing– right?) and trying to figure out what you really want to get with the store credit once you find the gift receipt for that mp3-player-toaster-oven-vacuum-cleaner-answering-machine [...]

I’ve been down with a cold for the past few days. I’ve made friends with the NyQuil bottle. During my convalescence I revamped Cutemojo with a completely new look, new theme and re-installed the shopping cart that I took offline when I moved last year. I have to build another light box and start taking photos of my inventory [...]

I bought Barbara Schoenoff’s In the Style of Queen Anne pattern as a birthday gift to myself (two birthdays ago, at least, maybe more) and although I’ve admired it greatly I haven’t gotten around to giving it a go until now. I don’t know why I have this freak-outedness that goes with doing someone else’s pattern [...]

What’s interesting about some people is how careful they can be to remain very non-specific. Victorian knitting patterns where the author gives everything else but carefully withholds gauge come to mind, where I assume one would just follow the instructions with obedience and worsted wool on such-and-such-sized pins and hope to heaven they know someone [...]

I ran out of poly-fil. I managed to exhaust what was left making persimmon shaped bunnies in my attempt to use up all of my remaining holiday fabric. Using a whole bag of poly-fil is quite the accomplishment for me, because I’m pretty sure that like wire hangers and those little plastic bread bag clips if [...]

Mod Podge is miracle stuff. Especially since I’m convinced that somewhere encoded in my dna is an imperative to never throw away a wooden box. I’m pretty sure that since this box had an ugly fish (now obscured by gesso) design on the top that it bore dried and horribly out of date smoked salmon from my [...]