Martha Stewart Crafts recently debuted this great product called Crafters Clay. These beautiful flowers were crafted by the clay founders daughter, Yukiko Miyai. She has had a lifetime of experience ...
The Martha Stewart Show has wrapped, for good, after seven seasons. This doesnt mean Martha wont be on TV anymore, in fact she is currently in the midst of filming another show that will be on my fav...
We ventured upstate on Saturday to do our annual rummage and estate sale treasure hunting. I was really excited to have scored this vintage, possibly antique, American Flag. Being a huge fan of...
The dress I created for X Out is currently up for auction on Ebay. Please take a look and bid now!!
No Friday the 13th has ever been unique for me other the one that just passed. After a special viewing of Patty Schemels Hit So Hard, a small crowd gathered at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, where ...
Botanical Gardens were beautiful today.
I recently had the privilege to work on an auction project where 100% of the proceeds from sales go to Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention Center. The task was to embellish, decorate or re-desi...
Embroidery I did last summer while traveling. Never posted it because I didnt like the contrast between the white "e" and black "m". Maybe one day I will redo the em in grey.
Remember plastic label makers, way before p-touch?! Well theyre one of my favorite manual gadgets and although it comes out rarely, I wouldnt organize without it. For all my...
Posted about these rock n roll onesies I made for my friends on its way baby on the craftsdept blog, couldnt help but share here too! To make:1. Pick a band. Print the l...
Last night I had the opportunity to attend a special performance and book release for Eric Erlandsons Letters to Kurt. I finished reading the book last week and was touched by Erics introsp...
When I was gathering all the plastic off the beach in the Bahamas, I couldnt help but think of the inspiring collection of photographs by Chris Jordan of deceased albatrosses with stomachs...
For those of you expecting the Easter bunny on Sunday, a carrot is the perfect way to entice him to leave you some sweet treats. Instead of a carrot packed with Beta-carotene, you can make your own c...
A couple of weeks ago, I did a segment with Martha, demoing the Sailors Valentine boxes using all nature materials that I found on the beach. We also showed a piece of art I created from all the plas...
This past weekend I explored the Antique Show at the Piers here in NYC and posted a gallery of photos on thecraftsdept blog of many of the interesting things I saw. Here are my favorit...
We did this very simple project on Marthas show of stenciling on reusable "paper" cups. The cups look like an ordinary white paper cup but are actually ceramic—Im sure youve seen them before....
I made these quartz crystal capped jars a while back using this awesome adhesive clay called Mighty Putty. It a two part epoxy that hardens and sticks to just about everything. Its one of t...
Another lost-wax-casting of a skull in sterling.
A woven fabric is said to be cut on the bias, or cross-grain, when the fabrics warp and weft threads are at 45 degrees to its major seam lines.&nb sp;Every piece of woven fabric has two bias...
Last week on the show, I demoed how to make this leather fringed wool scarf. You can find the how-to on MarthaStewart.com, but I thought I would provide a photo how-to of for threading the ...
No one has inspired me more than Kurt Cobain.In every aspect of my life. I was molded as a pre-teen and my Nirvana "phase" never passed. If I hadnt believed in everything about him I wou...
Ashley always succeeds in creating a unique (and cheeky) way to convey his love on Valentines Day. This year it came in the form of "Flat" Ashley...Folded up and mailed in an envelope...Deliv...
Today makes ten years of love between Ashley and me. Valentines can certainly be corny (and I do hate to admit that V day is my anniversary), but it can be truly meaningful when you do somethin...
My first family dog, Merlot. He died on Friday, February 10, at fourteen years old. My dad said my Yiayia called and asked us to send Merlot. Yiayia loved him—she got such kick out of him always deci...
One of Picos favorite places to sit while she watches Ashley cooking is the dish rack. One morning, after cleaning out all our compost containers and piling them up to dry in the rack, Pico climbed r...
My fascination with Victorian and Georgian mourning jewelry lead me to carve a few skull charms—each sculpted out of wax and cast in sterling. It may seem morbid but Momento Mori (tran...
Hosanna did a couple posts on beaded bracelets (here & here) on thecraftsdept blog and I was eager to try some of the tutorials myself. There is a superb how-to (here) that solve the mystery...
It totally slipped my mind that today, Marthas Snow Day show aired. As a child, I always played with clay and being stuck indoors with no school gave me the perfect opportunity (my sister & I wou...
Today, Martha posted on her blog about the tapestry book that I created for her first grandchild, Jude. Please check out her post—it captures how the book came together, including images of the proce...
I posted on the craftsdept blog about the segment I did just before Christmas. A handful of wintery animals from the Arctic and Antarctica aloft ombre dip dyed wool felt stretched in an emb...
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