[caption id="attachment_341" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Start of a Ganesha Yantra"][/caption] I started this yantra a few weeks ago after one i painted for a silent auction fund raiser was sold. Jason's father wanted it, but i told him i'd make one that more suit him (the other...
[caption id="attachment_231" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Tins filled with lip balm"][/caption] I spend my Thursdays with a good friend from graduate school. We have decided that in order to make it through Fall Quarter, we deserve to craft one day a week. Also, it's a great way to...
Katie and i went to Goodwill and bought all of the beautiful old saucer-less tea cups we could find. We probably spent an hour pouring through them, laughing at the strange ones, oohing over the beautiful ones. There were a surprising number of lonely cups...
Pattern from Lotta Jansdotter’s Simple Sewing – and, yes, that’s a reversible apron – one side to get dirty, one to look lovely when the guests arrive. This took about eight hours over two days - well, exhausted evenings when i needed to do something besides think. ...
[caption id="attachment_243" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Block o' soap"][/caption] Katie and i made soap last year for Christmas presents. They turned out beautifully, even with the many snafus that we had. The biggest being that our instructions said to stir slowly until "trace." After an hour, our idea...