Pencil skirts are my very very favorite piece of clothing. My figure was just made to wear them. If I could only wear one thing for the rest of my life, it would be this indestructible gray stretchy pencil skirt…
Cross Stitched Rings
These have been in my head for AGES. Remember how excited I was when I finally found the rings I needed? Oh, the relief! Every crafter I’ve ever met has looked for ways to cover their whole life in their…
Grown Up Friendship Bracelets
I had the idea for these bracelets last year, but didn’t get around to doing anything about them until September. By then nobody’s thinking about something as quintessentially summer as friendship bracelets, so I put them away for today. Proving…
Knotty necklaces: Working with fibers
I learned about pre-threaded bead cord from my favorite local bead store, and I’ve become obsessed with it. The great thing about buying it pre-threaded is that it comes on a needle thin enough to get through even your little…
Mondrian Quilt is finished!
With Bear’s parents visiting us last month, I wanted the house to look as perfect as possible, which meant that I not only wanted to get my quilting mess out of the way, but I wanted to be able to…
Tiered Necklaces: Using Crimp Beads
I’ve been loving the trend lately of the really dominant necklaces. I haven’t found a bib necklace that worked on me yet, so I’ve been following the “dripping with beads” trend. Bear’s grandmother left me a ton of these jet…
Maximum Fun Baby Shower
I’ve been on board with MaximumFun.org since the very beginning. And being around so long, spending so much time chatting on forums, listening to podcasts, supporting this new experimental media, makes me feel so connected to Jesse Thorn that he…
Showing off the beads: Eye Loops
I loved these red faceted beads so much I really wanted to highlight them. But stringing them all by themselves didn’t seem very special, so I used this really simple technique that sets each bead apart to really shine. Each…
2011 Year of Pleasures #23
For years, YEARS!, I’ve had this idea in mind for a project using a ring with a premade bezel. I searched and searched and came up empty. When I could find one in a jewelry finding catalog it was the…
Chain Necklaces: Working with Jump Rings
I bought a big spool of chain with a coupon at the craft store so I could make a simple necklace I could wear with anything. It’s just a whole mess of chains attached to one chain that goes around…