Posted in Craftiness on Apr 29th, 2008 18 Comments »
I recently conquered my laser jet printer woes and I’m so darn excited about it I wanted to share what I did.
I self-print my pattern instruction booklets on an HP Color LaserJet 2550. My booklets are all black and white. When I first started doing this I tried switching the setting to ‘Print in Grayscale’. […]
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Posted in Craftiness on Mar 19th, 2008 57 Comments »
Switchplates were the March 2008 theme for my Out of the Box creativity challenge. I took some in progress photos but not a full-blown tutorial. I even forgot to take a stylized photo of the one I traded that night, very unlike me! Fortunately making these are extremely addictive so I had plenty more for […]
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Posted in Craftiness on Feb 22nd, 2008 24 Comments »
This is the new favicon I made for my website. I made one last year for my blog and I had to laugh at the time because I didn’t even know what they were called. I googled for something like “little picture on the web address bar” and found it.
Today I used this very cool […]
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Posted in Craftiness on Oct 29th, 2007 12 Comments »
Whew, it worked. It was touch and go there for awhile. Especially when my entire family gave the one-eyed balloon a thumbs down (”not scary enough Mom”). A trip to Rite-Aid, several more trips to the hardware store and a few strokes of day-glo paint and I was back in business.
I’m totally beating myself up […]
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Posted in Craftiness on Oct 25th, 2007 11 Comments »
Susan of Art Espirit wrote her first Whip Up post about print making with children. It was an idea I fell in love with and filed away in my memory banks for future use. Two weeks ago Leil and I carried the idea to her Girl Scout troop for work on the Printing and Graphics […]
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Posted in Craftiness on Oct 22nd, 2007 6 Comments »
A jack-in-the-box work in progress. I’ve got my fingers crossed that this thing works by Saturday at 12:00 noon when it’s set to appear at the annual Haunted House & Halloween Carnival at Leil’s school. And I wonder where all my time goes…
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Posted in Craftiness on Oct 10th, 2007 22 Comments »
That’s what the little toothpicks ‘nailed’ across the door say. The girls were 4 and 7 when we created this very spooky house. We all smile when it makes its yearly appearance on our table. The project began as one of those plain paper houses you can purchase at hobby stores. I’ve always used a […]
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Posted in Musings, Craftiness on Sep 3rd, 2007 38 Comments »
So glad I went with the Eggshell finish over Pearl. I like the flat look. Anything shinier would have been bouncing off the walls in such a small space.
We’ve been in our house for 3 years. My powder room has looked exactly like this for all 3 of them. It started with a need to […]
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Posted in Musings, Craftiness on Aug 16th, 2007 12 Comments »
I received this stunning piece of art from Lisa Leonard on Tuesday. I’ve worn it non-stop. Each time the Quilting Arts challenge was determined to kick my booty I looked down, smiled, and kept beading.
I like single words. I can appreciate sayings. Like whole sentence types of stuff. But I REALLY like the one word […]
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Posted in Cooking, Craftiness on Aug 13th, 2007 11 Comments »
Something new I’m trying around here: spending at least one day of the weekend doing a project around my house.
The kitchen curtains kicked off the idea. In the last month I’ve painted the powder room, installed light fixtures in the girls bedrooms, and hung curtains in our bedroom. The light fixture boxes had mailing dates […]
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