Smart Fun DIY ideas for life, adventure, and creativity
Mountains of paper were stacked so high that it is hard to fathom that I touched every single one of them with my hands at some point. I had to have, in order to have stacked them and moved them and rearranged them as many times as I did in the process of moving from apartment to apartment to rental home to finally our current
I have been seeing lots of fabric journals lately as I’ve moved away from spiral binding my own handmade books. I took a binding workshop a couple years ago and have always loved the look of stitched books. A few weeks ago, at Seaside Soiree, an event produced by Charity Wings, Jen Cushman shared a journal project with me that she had created in a
So, a little disclaimer. This post gets kinda real. If you want a look inside a scrapbook and craft designer’s brain, into the secret stuff I talk to other industry peeps about, then come on in and read my story about twopeasinabucket closing: My phone started blowing up last night: “TwoPeas is closing!” Why does everyone want to tell me this? I wasn’t a fixture over
CHA is this week. Yeah. That “Craft and Hobby Association, world’s-biggest-craft-trade-show, paradise for crafters, the golden ticket” thing in Anaheim, CA every year. Exciting? I have mixed emotions on it. And the announcement of Archiver’s stores closing last week seemed interesting timing. There’s discussion about what this means for the craft industry. These last few months I have felt a feeling I have felt before
Who doesn’t love buttons?! You can get them just about anywhere like the craft store, thrift store, or even from your own old clothes. I always stash the button packets you get when you buy new clothes … I love those little envelopes with extra buttons! There are a lot of things you can do with buttons on craft projects like put them in rows, sew
