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Crafty Portland

After the baby shower I attended last weekend, I was able to spend a few hours exploring Portland!
First off I emailed Sister Diane over at Crafty Pod, asking if she had any recommendations for where I could stop, what would be a “must see” while I was there. She sent me the links to four [...]

Reminders of Home

Reading this blog – check it out, seriously good stuff! – so reminds me of home. I imagine one of my girlfriends could be writing that – my friend Julie probably – because it is just what she wants her life to be. I mean she just got married and they are having a baby [...]

Craft Podcast #2

The second craft podcast is up over at the Crafter Cast – I talked about our trip to Atlanta for the craft fair and interviewed Matt with Etsy.com about the Buy Handmade pledge.
I was so nervous talking to him! But it wore off after a couple of minutes and I enjoyed our conversation a lot. [...]

Handmade Toys

I was really lucky to only have one toy from the first recall list – it was the Elmo that was like a potato head, he had parts you could add to him. But the catch was the toy had to be made after May 2007 – ha, we’ve had that Elmo for at [...]

Stamps that look like sewing

This is by far some of the coolest things I’ve seen lately! I’ve been using my StumbleUpon button to browse for new craft sites and came across this tonight. Check out this page of stamps, they are the new images offered by Hot Potatoes, and they are sewing stuff! I love them! I’m so excited, [...]

Making Soap

Check out this cool site that has everything you need to know about making soap – as well as lip balms, lotions, etc. I’ve never tried making any of these things but when I see the kits in the craft story it is so hard to pass them up! I wonder if they would be [...]