Posts Categorized: Inspiration

Link dump: Free patterns, apartment peek and green craft blogs

Lish was (is?) off in NYC this week, leaving me to crawl the web and wait for her return. (Come back soon!) Here’s some recent awesomeness found on the nets.…

Creating your craft fair tablescape

Tablescape. Is that a word? In the DIY world, I believe it is. ANYHOO, I was in a bit of a bind for the Guerilla Art Show a few weeks…

We just couldn’t resist…

Courtesy of Danielle Maveal’s stellar Flickr account, caption included: “don’t pull it out until i get a pic” Handmade Detroit: Bringing you inappropriate craft events since 2005.

Acrylic tips and tricks with Danielle Maveal

Steph, Taryn of Talking Squid and I spent an afternoon with Danielle Maveal doing a test run for her upcoming workshops at the Etsy Labs in Brooklyn. Her first workshop…

Making Jinx for 826 Michigan

Ann Arbor Co-worker and crafter genius Marian Short always has the best ideas for everything, whether it’s Halloween costumes or cute baked goods. So I wasn’t surprised when she showed…

Lov.li is just that!

Heavens. The last thing we need these days are MORE social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and the ever-annoying Twitter. But I guess it doesn’t surprise me that the niche…

Project Crawl Revisited: Wine Cork craft and art

You must have a lot of wine corks! Lish wrote a Wine Cork Project Crawl last June that is always in our top searches, so I’d thought we’d revisit the…

Crafters in the funniest places: BlogHer

I’m still in New York for Business BlogHer. When I first sat down yesterday, I met Lori Magno, from Boston. She’s here for work, too, but took one look at…

Krafty Kids: Naka

Look at technology in action! I’m actually in New York right now, but thanks to the tubes in the sky, I’m still able to bring you all the necessary information…

Krafty Kids: The forces behind CROQ Zine

Meet Heather, the crafty zinestress behind CROQ. For the past wee bit, Heather and her team of crafty writers have been working hard to bring DIY news to the masses…