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Signs of Autumn
#1: Pumpkins #2: Hearty Loaves #3: Bright, October sun #4: Migrating birds #5: My being missing in action, inundated with all things 10-year-old.
D.I.Y. Back to School, Posters
Yes, it is back to school time! Last year I shared my D.I.Y. inspirational posters for my classroom. This year I am adding a few more. For the library: Vocabulary enrichment: This poster format was inspired by a crafter who was selling it in woodcut form for top dollar (see here). I kind of love [...]
Craft Time! Earrings Holder
Summer recess is only a couple weeks in and I am still riding a wave of wrap-up productivity, knocking projects off my to-do list. I finished up my necklace holder about a month ago and since, my earrings have been eager for their own crafted display. Reusing some goodies and going back to my pastel [...]
Craft Time! Panty Hose Sorter
Black stockings in a drawer all look the same. At a glance the opaque footless look like the sheer that look like the textured tights, etc. To add to this, my hose drawer exceeds maximum capacity, hiding some while making the rest more susceptible to snags. It is inside inefficiency where I see opportunity. As [...]
Spring Crafting: Necklace holder
Everything has its place. And with my embracing jewelry adornments lately, I needed to give them a proper home. Since I was not impressed with the standard tree or body form necklace holder, I had to make my own. Rustic and pretty, soft pastel and cold iron. Start with a cheap vintage painting with a [...]
Spring Crafting: Jewelry
I have recently learned that there exist printable Shrinky Dink paper. Yes, Shrinky Dinks! Teeming with possibilities, I thought I’d create what I had been looking for in a pendant.My first tries were an anatomically-correct heart, an artichoke (a play on the heart theme) and a brain. My parents’ ink was running low so the [...]
Spring Crafting: After-school Wrap-up
My cross stitch sample. Banana’s finished product. Bring on the Mod Podge! Decoupage Frames. K shares her fruity frame. My owl in its new home.
Week’s End
Curdling almond milk. Cooling vanilla cupcakes. Cara cara, exposed. The princess, her sneer–real and plush–and the momma. Patty Day cupcakes Aerial on the cat table.
Little Women & Pin Cushions
I am so excited to be running a craft class after school with a gang of 4th and 5th graders. Here are some pictures from our first craft… plush owls. Pin cushion place settings. Piles of color. Finally, a happy ending for my pile of fabric. Ms. Banana digging for gold. Orange eyes. A parliament [...]
52 Things: #4
1/1/11 #1: Volunteering. Now that I have successfully decompressed from years of working and going to school in the evening, I have time to kill, time that often is wasted after work staring at various glowing screens. To make better use of this pool of minutes in 2011 I will incorporate a weekly volunteer position. [...]
Back To School
I’ve spent all week so far setting up my fifth grade classroom and haven’t cooked a darn thing. I entered my classroom mid-year this past January and didn’t have the opportunity to imprint the room with any of my own pizazz. But this year! Vintage fabric is strewn about and my tidy sense of deep-down [...]
I Like Brooklyn In the Spring Time
With the coming of unseasonably warm temperatures is many neat things to do out and about in Brooklyn. The veg clan and I multi-tasked lunch with a charity cupcake sale with a craft sale in Park Slope to make the most of free time before the Monday drag. In the foreground here is my grey [...]
