Posts Categorized: Inspiration

Last-minute, low-brow Halloween costume: Charlie Brown’s Ghost

Last night at about 11 p.m. I decided I wanted a different Halloween costume. With the fabric stores closed and a weird wind storm happening outside, it occurred to me…

Halloween Craft Projects

Halloween is coming up soon, and one of my favorite times of year for fun crafty projects! Here’s some Halloween inspiration and project ideas to get your costume and decoration…

ArtPrize photos

I had the chance to check out ArtPrize last weekend. Very cool, and maybe a little overwhelming, to see Grand Rapids overtaken with so much art — we spent all…

American Sewing Expo this Weekend

The 16th annual American Sewing Expo is coming to Michigan this weekend at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, admission is just $12 and it promises to have something for…

Boozey 1950s crafts across a generation

I don’t know about you, but I had the best-ever Labor Day Weekend this year. Sure, it was great because I spent time with my family, slept in a bit,…

Happy National Sewing Month

Twitter’s trending topics reminded me that today is the first day of September (no way!), but it didn’t remind me that today is first day of National Sewing Month. Yippee!…

These Ohio pins remind me of…

Well! We’ve got a Craftervid on the way, but until then, enjoy this lil’ gem from a recent road trip we took to visit Columbus’ Crafty Cotillion in August. I…

Hanes gets crafty at BlogHer ’09

I was at BlogHer ’09 for work and happened to spot this crafty swag bag from Hanes. Definitely caught me by surprise! Sounds like they were a hit at the…

Hatch for Anthropologie

How fun and what a surprise! A recent Anthropologie catalog featured limited edition prints from Nashville’s Hatch Show Print. Cool!

Sublime Stitching offers free Fireworks pattern

The Fourth of July magic continues! Sublime Stitching has a cool, free pattern available for download in their Flickr gallery. So cute! Thanks to Sublime Stitching for being so nice!