My adventures in indoor gardening continue with the arrival of my new plant pal Charles! I am quite thrilled about this one and actually won him in a contest at work! Talk about sweet work incentive ...
I love making crafts out of sculpy. It is easy to work with (once you warm it up with some handling), doesnt dry out, and once its baked it is hard as a rock! Its a great canvas for painting on is oh...
I feel like lately every tutorial I come across I am dying to try out. Sure, I sift through hundreds of blog posts and sites a day but I think the internet craft gods must be with me because boy am I...
A few weeks ago (okay, more like 6 weeks or so...) I was trying to explain perler beads to Fraser. We were chatting about things from our childhood and somehow we got to talking about Lite Brites (wh...
Happy Sunday! What a great way to end the week than with a nice relaxing lazy day on a chaise:(source) Okay, so my day will involve much more crafting than lazing, but when I saw that cute sleep...
This past Thursday I shared the wooden mushrooms I painted (link). Although I was thrilled with how they turned out, my online ordering left me longing for larger mushroom caps. Well a stop in the cr...
Today is my last night of sleeping diagonally. Yup, tomorrow Fraser finally comes home from his practicum and it will be back to sharing the bed - rats (but yay for Fraser coming back)! If youre one ...
So as you may recall Ive been wanting to make some wooden mushrooms (from Stelabirds tutorial) for months now (link). Yes - months. After boasting about how great it would be to do a quick little cra...
Happy Wednesday! Weve made it to the middle of the week so lets celebrate something hanging out in the middle (okay...so really more on the right hand side...) of my blog - my lovely sponsors! ...
A few weeks ago I attended my second vintage fair here in Victoria and although it wasnt quite as full of thrifty steals as the first one (link), I did manage to pick up a few costume jewelry pieces ...
The Highland Games turned out to be just as lovely as I had hoped and I am so happy I got to go! It was a fun packed day of Scottish celebration and the weather was just perfect! Kilts and sunshine f...
Happy Sunday everyone! While you are hopefully spending your day doing a whole handful of wonderful weekend-y things, I am recovering from too much fun at the Highland Games yesterday (and another my...
Last weekend Jim and I spend the Saturday out on the town. We stopped by a vintage fair, browsed the Moss Street market, and drove downtown to catch a glimpse of the Tweed Bicycle Riders. To to...
Looks like Friday is upon us so its time for another wonderful shop from the internet! This weeks pick is the fabulously bold and graphic rings from Etsys Strozzi. Just check out that squirrel: ...
I was happy to see (er...read) that so many of you out there are muppet fans just like me! Nothing like a little Kermit the Frog to perk up a Thursday - so how about your very own needle felted Kermi...
One unfortunate side effect of going on vacation is all the fun blog posts I miss out on! Sure it is great to unplug and get away for a while, but when I get back home there are so many unread posts ...
Hooray! Spring is finally here and with the singing birds, sprouting flowers, and sunshine days come fun springy dresses! Since dresses and clutches go hand in hand (well...they do in my mind at leas...
Happy Monday! While I am busy soaking up my last few moments of mini break, I thought Id share a project that Im dying to try out! After all - it has some of my most favourite elements:1) Felt!2) Org...
This past week I went through some old photo albums in the hope of finding some nice pictures to put up in the new collage picture frames I picked up. I quickly realized that 1) my mom took some nice...
Oh man the internet is an endless source of amazing inspiration! Todays project is brought to us by Desiree from Suddenly Found and boy am I ever excited to try this one out - take a peek: Thats...
Todays find is the amazing cute polymer clay magnet creations of Etsys Chippy Munky! Everyone needs more handcrafted anthropomorphic magnet friends in their lives right? Check out the cute rain drop ...
Guess what? Lindsay rocks! Oh wait - you should already know that by now. She is one swell lady. She also picks out rad projects for me to do and this one is no exception. Check it out: Thats ri...
Much like the sweet "spam filter" pinterest board Lindsay made for me, my sister has her own "stuff for kate" pin board and every time she puts something on there I quickly fall in lo...
Looks like going through old blog drafts is more fun than I had thought and I cant believe I didnt blog about this one before. A long time ago Molly from Wild Olive did a post where she admitted how ...
Although Im still trying to get the hang of the new blogger posting system (to all those non-blogging people out there - it changed dramatically), I am enjoying being able to sift through all my draf...
With summer peeking just around the corner its time to think about craft shows! Besides my endless hours of crafting I have ahead of me (oy!), Ive been brainstorming new ways to freshen up my booth! ...
My sister and I used to have loads of fun cutting up old magazines in high school for collages, and although that was quite a while ago (over 10 years in fact), I still like the idea of using old mag...
Todays find is one awesome wood accessory shop from Australia - So Little Time. Unlike a lot of other laser cut pieces you see out there, Kirsty adds little hand-painted details to each piece m...
Pretty much every project they post about on the Purl Bee I fall in love with. Its like Molly has a little window into my mind where she picks out little snipits to turn into project she knows Ill li...
As Im sure you all know, I am a huge fan of felt! It is the perfect craft medium because it is easy to work with, doesnt fray, and is available in an assortment of amazing colours! There are a pletho...
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