A Halloween How To... This Tutorial is always a Hit, so I just thought I'd Share it again. I've already made one batch this year...
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It all started last week when a sweater I designed beat me up and took my lunch money. I felt so betrayed. If this sweater were human, it would be the teenager who steals your car keys and takes a joyride. You love and nurture a design, and then it stomps all over your heart by being the wr
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back! Today I am featuring the Epiphany Plate Layering Die Set! We do not have to use our dies only one way, let’s look beyond what they are capable of! With this set we …
Maintaining your brand is key to your business success. This blog post guides you to identify the signs when you need a rebrand for your business.
A Re-Purpose Driven Life: I do the three r's: reduce, reuse, recycle but I add re-purpose for a 4th R. I just can't help myself. It all started with my grandfather. He kept all kinds of things and remade-reused them on his farm. (Back then they called it junk collecting.) M…
An overlook at a favorite book of mine: Cadillac Desert.
'Tadao Ando Exhibition 2009: The City of Water/Osaka vs. Venice' seems like a fixed fight. Many would even balk at the idea of the match-up.
A blog about vintage dollhouses from USA, UK, Germany.
Sick of chaining lots of keys together with dots to access nested values in objects? Frustrated that `arr[0]` isn’t a very descriptive name?If you write JavaScript you’re likely familiar with ES2015 and all the new language standards that were introduced. Destructuring assignment has incredible value when accessing values in arrays and objects. In this article, Laurie Barth will show you a number of use cases in which this syntax can come in handy.
The twins have been all about the early morning wake-ups these days. Early, as in before-the-sun-comes-up early. This, of course, means that I, too, have necessarily been “all about the early…
A few of you have emailed, asking me for more details on a couple different advent activities. I'm taking some new pics and sifting throug...
A well-crafted handmade item is a true treasure. Couple it with recycled materials and excellence in design – suddenly you are in the company of a masterpiece. This is beauty you’ll covet in ThinkEco² wine crates and boxes. Owning one is like having a little piece of our rich earth showcase and cradle your favorite […]
So far I've only been showing you ways to re-purpose old clothing or fabrics, but there are so many other ways to re-purpose in your home! I...
Welcome to a long, involved story about how a hat went through many design permutations before it finally became a lovely thing that I enjoy wearing! I originally (all the way back in April 2017…) started out wanting to make this Lily Elsie mushroom hat to wear with my Miss Muffet dress: I began with a fairly generic straw sunhat I’d found at an op shop. I soaked it and re-shaped it over a hat-block and towels to get that mushroom shape. Somewhere there are photos of the process, but I just can’t find them. Update: I have found one of the original re-shaping photos! The curved-up back brim is based on a catalogue image from 1913: And…it looked terrible on me. So it went in the naughty pile. And then I needed a hat to go with the 1918-19 Not Another Blue Dress, so it came back out, and I re-shaped it again intp a shape halfway between this painting: And the bottom left hat: And then added a dark blue ribbon under the …
How to make a heart art out of scrap pieces of molding with Elmer's glue crackled finished.
Design submitted by Jacques from The Netherlands. Jacques says: The watch is a redesign of the watch I posted earlier. Although the watch looks quite different from the first one, the principle actually is the same. A minimalistic watch with a completely blank front and time reading functionality on the side, which creates a surprising…
Quick scans are nice. They are even nicer when you can schedule them on a regular basis.
