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Shirt to Pants
I’ve been meaning to do the tshirt to toddler pants conversion and I finally got around to it. I sort of used the directions in SouleMama‘s The Creative Family, and sort of didn’t. But that’s what got...
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Juice Top Sewing Cards Tutorial
I have been collecting the tops from frozen juice concentrate containers for a while, they are such nice sturdy metal disks I was sure they would be perfect for some art project or other. Mini sewing...
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Junk Challenge
A month ago, or so, I signed up for Rhoda’s Recycled Craft Challenge, and this dressing table is what Rebecca and I made. You can see more of what other people made at the Flickr group. It was a nice...
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Resurrecting Sheep
Many years ago, somewhere upwards of twenty I guess, my grandmother Alison made me a sheep. Or at least I took one of her sheep home with me after visiting, I seem to recall that she had made a whole...
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Wooden Puzzles
There are SO MANY things I want to make right now, if I could create full time I might be able to keep up. I want to make a mechanical (automaton) music box with my husband, quilted mattress pad for...
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Playing Mail Man
I’m not supposed to be blogging right now, I’m supposed to be meeting my deadline. But it’s been a week! My house is getting messier and messier and older daughter spent an unheard of amount of time in...
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FabMo
Do you live in the SF Bay Area? Do you live near Mountain View? Well, if you do… Have you heard of FabMo? It’s this wonderful small organization devoted to re-distributing all of the fabric cast off...
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Bathtub Fountain – Battery Free
This may not be beautiful, but it is crafty! I’ve been wanting a fountain in the bathtub for the girls to play with, probably since Rebecca was born. You can buy pretty cool battery powered bath...
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Recycled Mesh Collecting Bags
Aren’t these cute? Or at least useful for those shell collecting trips, and the playground. And mostly recycled! Those are orange bags and old car seat belts. (The car seat was in a minimal accident...
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Felted Things
There was no tutorial on Monday, was there? That’s what happens when you are working overtime and coincidentally traveling across the country (taxi, plane, bus (okay okay, shuttle), rental car,...
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