Happy Mothers Day, Mom! I am so delighted to be participating in a special CHA Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop challenge this week hosted by ImpressArt Metal Stamps! Twenty-two designers were give...
Swirly Whirly Lots of crafters have huge stashes of fabric all in pretty colors just waiting to be transformed into something fabulous. Me? I blush to say that instead of a fabric stash (althou...
Holy Fist Fight! Oof! I really hate to toss anything into the trash which might have even a drop of crafty potential still left in it. (Its a thin line between Crafter DNA and horder DNA and a line t...
Bouquet of Cork Flower Coasters Hooray for April! The CHA Designer Crafts Blog Connection theme for this month is "Mixed Media" so I decided to combine two of my crafty loves - ...
How Does Your Garden Grow? How does your garden grow? With dichroic glass baby! Being as how the CHA Designer Crafts Blog Connection theme for March is "Spring Ahead", I thought that I...
What A View - Elrod House Last weekend, Bruce and I snuck away for a lovely weekend in Palm Springs. It's only takes two hours to get there from Glendale - although admittedly we left on Friday ...
Every year I have the extreme honor and delight of attending the Winter Craft and Hobby Association Conference and Trade Show of which the 2012 edition just finished up last week at the Anaheim Conve...
My Dream House One of my favorite magazines is "Cloth Paper Scissors." It's my monthly treat of inspiration and ideas. Every month or two the magazine has a readers' challenge wh...
Time for this month's CHA Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop! This month the theme is Journaling. I love journals. I love buying them and dreaming about how I will fill them with thoughts and p...
Happy New Year! Time for a fresh start filled with new goals and resolutions and new projects waiting to be tackled. But what about the projects that started 2011 (or even previous years) with such p...
Time for this month's CHA Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop and this month's theme is Sock Monkeys! The "sock hop" challenge was sponsored by the wonderful Ana Araujo of When Cr...
Time for this month's CHA Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop! This month the theme is Thanksgiving / Fall so here's a look at one of my favorite projects - fun little trees made out of pol...
I am so pleased to be participating in the October CHA Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop because its an extra fun one! This month the hop is generously sponsored by WESTCOTT BRAND® Cutting Tools. B...
I am so excited to participate in a lovely Blog County Fair organized by designers Vicki O"Dell of The Creative Goddess and Laura Bray of Katydiddys. One of my favorite things to see at a count...
Get this! Award winning craft designer/consultant and product developer Julie McGuffee is giving away a set of DVDs for the new TV show, Scrapbook Soup. To enter go to the blue Designer Crafts Conn...
It's time for the Monthly Designer Craft Connection Blog Hop! This month's theme is celebrations. My post is a nutty interpretation of the theme - I celebrate knocking a couple of items o...
Judson Studios - Such Glass Wonders Within I had the most fun today with my glass buddies visiting the legendary Judson Studios in Highland Park. Located south of Pasadena, the studios have been in ...
Reusable tote bags - they are everywhere! It seems like no matter where you go now, you get handed a promotional bag and who doesn't love that?! But if you're like me - you've just r...
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