I bought two DIY iPhone cases for cross-stitching, several months ago, and I’m pleased to say I’ve finished one! Or at least made one presentable—I may add something else to it, before I call it “done.” It’s an 8-bit Samus, from the original Metroid game, for Dale’s iPhone. (He loves…
I know that Rule 1 of Book Club is “You do not talk about Book Club.” So I mostly won’t. But I like the idea of experimenting with a little bit of readers’ advisory on this blog, since I don’t get to do a lot of that at at my…
I haven’t taken the time for crafting, this year, that I normally do. There was that whole buying a house/getting married on the east coast/nesting thing going on, and I still haven’t dug out all of my supplies, let alone organized them. But I’ve found a little time, mostly while…
I don’t know what this is going to do to my RSS feed (so, apologies in advance for any weirdness), but I’ve imported my old craft blog into this one. My most recent post there really belonged in both places; I’ve been writing less to all of my blogs than…
For the first time ever, I’ve made pieces of art (or at least craft) that are going to be in an art show! To be fair, the show is taking place in the gallery of my library, and it’s a showcase of librarians’ art. I think there are only a…
I was pretty busy in the months leading up to the holidays. I have oodles of pictures of the many, many cookies we made to ship off to family, but I haven’t gone through those yet, to post them. What I did finally go back to look at (and, in…
As seen on the Chronicle of Higher Education (side note: I really like ProfHacker) and the Alaska Library Association’s Facebook page, there’s a challenge called “reverb10.” (Twitter tag: #reverb10.) Goal: write 750 words every day in December, as an exercise in reflection on the year that’s ending and in setting…
The project I talked about in my last post is complete! And it has been mailed to and received by the happy couple! So, as promised, here are pictures: The photo on the cutting mat is just included to give you a better idea of the coloration–I didn’t realize my…
I picked up the book Subversive Cross Stitch a couple of weeks ago and have completed two of the patterns (“whatever” and “#@%&!!”). I’m going out on a limb, now, and adding my own words to one of the borders. And changing the colors. If it’s awesome, it’s going to…
I know I haven’t been posting about crafts or cooking projects for a while–things have been busy–but I’ve definitely dabbled. Just this weekend I started cutting magazines to make decoupage and magnets. I wanted to grab the recipes out of the magazines before throwing them out (so help me, less…
