RSSArchives: October 2008
October 30, 2008
ReForm School Moving Sale
My favorite art/craft/design shop in L.A., ReForm School, is relocating to a larger storefront and is having an online sale to celebrate. Since their physical doors are closed until next Tuesday, you can get 15% off all online purchases until they reopen. You can read more about their move in their guest post on design*sponge, or check out their own blog here. (Full disclosure: I'm teaching how-to classes there starting in January 2009!) Here's the scoop on the new location:
ReForm School
3902 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 30, 2008 10:00 AM
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Natalie Chanin's SF Tour
Natalie Chanin, author of the Alabama Stitch Book, is on tour! If you're in the Bay Area, be sure to check her out at one of these upcoming events.
Design Craft 08 Lecture Series: Natalie Chanin
Wednesday, November 5, 7pm
@ CCA San Francisco
Timken Lecture Hall
For additional info: 415.703.9563
Alabama Chanin Trunk Show
Friday, November 7, 1-8pm
@ Mimi Robinson Design
10 Arkansas Street, Studio D
San Francisco, CA 94107
Please RSVP to
Caroline Priebe
ph: 347.385.4043
caroline@alabamachanin.com
Book Signing: Alabama Stitch Book
Saturday, November 8, 2008
@ Curiosity Shoppe
855 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
For more information, contact: caroline@alabamachanin.com
From the pages of CRAFT: 08
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Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 30, 2008 09:00 AM
Events |
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A.M. Eye Candy - Fabric Castle
Some mornings, you just need something pretty to look at to get your day off on the right foot. For me, this gorgeous collaged fabric castle by Resurrection Fern is really doing the trick.
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 30, 2008 08:00 AM
General |
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Shark Halloween Costume
Check out this shark costume that Abbey from Aesthetic Outburst made for her son. She says he hates it, but I think he looks great.
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
Oct 30, 2008 07:00 AM
Halloween, Holiday projects, Homemade |
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HOW TO - Cookie Costume to Cookie Cushion
Amber Dusick created a tutorial for this cookie Halloween costume that can be used as seat cushions post-Halloween. Thanks Kelly.
Related
Last-Minute Cookie Halloween Costume
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
Oct 30, 2008 05:00 AM
Halloween, Holiday projects, Homemade |
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HOW TO - Hairpin Lace Eyemask
WhipUp links to this lovely (and free!) masquerade-style eyemask pattern from Stitch Diva, which is done in hairpin lace crochet.
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 30, 2008 12:00 AM
Crochet, Halloween |
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October 29, 2008
HOW TO - Vampire Cookies
Baking Bites has totally made my day with this recipe for Vampire Cookies, complete with blood red jam filling and two teeny toothmarks on top.
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 29, 2008 08:00 PM
Food, Halloween |
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Free Cross-Stitch Pattern from The Domestic Scientist
If you're a fan of video games, you've got to head over to The Domestic Scientist for this funny (and free!) cross-stitch pattern download with a message that should really hit home. Via Feeling Stitchy
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 29, 2008 05:00 PM
Needlearts, Patterns |
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Vintage Embroidered Linens Spruce Up Tired Cardigan
Amy over at Early Bird Special spruced up a worn cardigan of hers in a most brilliant and charming way. Using some vintage embroidered napkins she'd scored as extras in a giveaway on Sarah's blog, she cut out and appliqued the embroidered bits to her cardigan using simple fusible webbing and whip stitches for strength. Gives it that extra little punch (ok, delicate punch) don'tcha think? Ever since I saw a similar project in the book, Complete Embellishing, I've been wanting to try this, and seeing Amy's creation makes me want to try it even more.
Related:
Complete Embellishing by Kayte Terry Review and Q&A
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Oct 29, 2008 04:00 PM
Fashion, Needlearts |
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Halloween Zombie Kitty Bento
I like cute and I like creepy - I *really* like combined cute-and-creepy. Just Bento made this cute/creepy Halloween bento that's also healthy!
Posted by Patti Schiendelman |
Oct 29, 2008 03:30 PM
Food, Halloween, Kids |
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Tapestry Senses Temperature
Instructables user craft-tech writes:
Should you wear a scarf today? Hang this piece of tapestry on a (drafty) window, and the embedded lights will tell you at a glance what the temperatures could feel like. The piece contains 6 lights: 2 red, 2 green, and 2 white. A smart temperature sensing module turns on the appropriate lights without any extra programming. I really think Grandma could get into this :-)
Posted by Becky Stern |
Oct 29, 2008 03:00 PM
Home Decor, Technology |
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HOW TO - Craft-y Halloween Parties
We love to have craft parties for birthdays and holidays - both kids and adults seem to enjoy making something they can take home. Here's a small roundup of Halloween crafts that are easy to do at parties.
KCEtsy has this great Halloween garland tutorial.
Small Object has instructions for ghost walkers and pose-able skeletons.
Lftndbt put together an Instructable for easy LED spiders.
Martha Stewart has a lot of free clip art for invitations, decorations, and crafts.
Her website also has a collection of ideas from her TV show, like these specimen jar candles and creepy head decorations made with doll heads and LEDs.
And, of course, Evil Mad Scientist has instructions for an itty bitty blinkie LED Jack o Lantern.
Posted by Patti Schiendelman |
Oct 29, 2008 02:00 PM
Halloween, Kids, Roundups |
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Stools from Old Newspapers
Jonah@ MAKE writes:
These cool newspaper chairs are built from tightly rolled up bundles of old newspapers. The project was inspired by the practice of shop owners placing old papers outside their shops on Saturday nights in urban spaces.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Oct 29, 2008 01:00 PM
Home Decor, Recycle |
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HOW TO: Pumpkin Carved From a Book
I am in love with this shape book tutorial over on Cheeky Magpie. While reminiscent of those accordion tissue paper table decorations, it's a hundred times cooler when you realize what it's made from - a cut apart paperback book. There are a lot of possibilities for translating this project for other holidays or just for some interesting pieces to add to your bookshelves.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Oct 29, 2008 12:00 PM
Halloween, Holiday projects, Paper Crafts |
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HOW TO - Bat Finger Puppet
Soto Softies wows us with this beautiful bat finger puppet pattern you can download in handy PDF format.
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 29, 2008 11:00 AM
Halloween |
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HOW TO - Vintage Burp Cloths
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Indie Shopper shows us how she repurposed some cloth diapers by turning them into cute burp cloths using some sunny yellow dye and vintage fabric.
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 29, 2008 10:00 AM
Babies |
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Hikje's Etsy Shop
I was doing some browsing on Etsy and came across Hikje's shop. There's something very appealing about the angular, cartoony offerings therein. I especially love these twine-wrapped cranes (wrecking balls?) built from string and cardboard.
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 29, 2008 09:00 AM
Bazaar |
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HOW TO - Owl Cookies
Owl imagery has been big with crafters since the 1970s and it looks like the wide-eyed creatures won't be giving up their strangehold anytime soon--which is just fine with this woodland-obsessed blogger. So I was happy to see this post on the Handmade Detroit blog, where Amy of Make-Out Goods gives us the scoop on making these fun owl-shaped cookies with peanut butter and cashews. Hoot hoot!
Related:
• Owl Ornament Pattern
• Macrame Owl
• Paper & String's Make-Your-Own-Owl Kits
Posted by Jenny Ryan |
Oct 29, 2008 08:00 AM
Food |
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Embroidered Anatomical Patches
Monster Crochet made a series of embroidered anatomical patches. All of the designs, except for the brain, are from Sublime Stitching's Vital Organs suite of patterns.
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
Oct 29, 2008 07:00 AM
Homemade, Needlearts, Sewing |
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HOW TO - Transparent Image Tutorial
Wishing on Clovers shared a tutorial for how to transfer a printed image onto a piece of tape to make it transparent for use in collages. Thanks Jessica.
Posted by Michelle Kempner |
Oct 29, 2008 05:00 AM
Home Decor, Paper Crafts |
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