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Crafts

Melting crayons

January 19, 2010

I’m a big fan of the website, Kind over Matter. It’s a feel good and happy website that also promotes artists and their work. I decided last week to participate in their Artist’s Trading Card swap and created this ATC. The rules of an Artist’s Trading card are minimal – the size of the card [...]

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The red rug

January 10, 2010

After making the little gold and yellow mat for the cabinet in the dining room, I decided to make a round red rug for the front entrance. I decided to throw away the worn out mat I paid $1.99 at Army & Navy about 3 years ago. I know! $1.99 for a little rug you [...]

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Health sector – Activate!

January 2, 2010

We have been watching hockey since 11:30 this morning. It’s been non-stop couch potatoing at the Brownes the last few days. How can we not be? All this hockey plus the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and all the others. Yeesh. While watching the games, I made some fabric yarn out of some yellow and [...]

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Tea and Balls

December 20, 2009

Yesterday I hopped in the car and went on a little road trip to Mission to visit Cynthia, her mum, her sister-in-law and Denise. Cynthia served us tea in fancy teacups, sandwiches and all kinds of treats. This was all well and good, but the best part? Making these balls. Cynthia found a tutorial how [...]

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Arts and Crafts night

October 15, 2009

I took it easy and had an arts and crafts night. Today was a tough one and pasting and stamping and painting papers is a good way to change my mood from “ARRRRR!” to “Ahhhh!”. It really works to take edge off. I used these excellent old fashioned Halloween images I bought from My ARTistic [...]

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Today's hard work.

September 28, 2009

This is what I have to show for today – a partially finished pom-pom skeleton I got from Kelaine last year. I hung on to it until now that it’s “that” time of the year. For some reason I am sick yet again. A couple of weeks ago I took a day and a half [...]

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Prizes in the mail

August 12, 2009

It was a good mail day! I got my prizes from Jen today. Aren’t they the cutest? I just love my little pocketbook. It’s in the shape of an actual pocket. And the snap is one of those cool snaps you see on cowboy shirts – a shiny mother of pearl look. It’s so great. [...]

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The Mary Tyler Moore fabric

May 16, 2009

I spotted this fabric at Dressew earlier this week. But I walked away from it thinking it was a bit too retro – a little overboard in the tiki department. But I thought about it over and over throughout the week and decided on Friday to get some to make a table runner for the [...]

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This is one is more of an auditory experience.

May 12, 2009

I know it’s really spring when I can hear the frogs out in the back lane croaking and chirping away. I just love that sound. They started singing a couple of weeks ago now, and in the near future, they will go back to being quiet and unassuming. Even though it’s still chilly at night, [...]

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It may not look like much at this point.

May 11, 2009

Yesterday I spent some time painting this unbleached muslin with a mixture of black acrylic, assorted fabric paint in dark colours, and some stamps. After seeing the softies in Cloth, Paper, Scissors this month, I’m making my own. Since I am on a serious Oscar kick, I’m sticking with the kitty stuffie theme and am [...]

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