Making

Craft Month 2011 – Day 7 – Burnt Silk Flowers

By Andrea | March 7, 2011 |

Today I’m going to show you some cute silk flower clips I made over the weekend.  I really like these clips, because they were simple to make, and gave me a nice project for my silk remnants. To make these flowers, I simply cut some circles out of my silk fabric.  I used 3  –…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 6 – Mod Podge Cityscape

By Andrea | March 6, 2011 |

If you’ve been reading my blog, I’m sure you already know that it’s national craft month and I’m trying to make a project a day all month.  I’m proud to say that I haven’t missed a day yet.  But, since it’s sunday.  Today is a simple project. 

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 5 – Felt Flower Dahalia

By Andrea | March 5, 2011 |

It’s the fifth day of craft month and I am still going strong. Whoo!  Today’s project is brought to you by a tutorial for Fabric Dahalias from Holidash.  I used this project as a test for some thicker, more wool like felt that I had laying around.  I bought it for it’s beautiful chocolate brown…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 4 – Handmade Book

By Andrea | March 4, 2011 |

It’s already the 4th day of National Craft month, and I have to say I’m very proud of myself for having not missed a day yet.  I’ve got a lot of things going on right now, but it’s really refreshing to sit down and craft for a bit in the evening.  I’m very proud of…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 3 – Flower Pins

By Andrea | March 3, 2011 |

Ok, so today, I am totally cheating, and taking an idea from Craft Snob.  Today, I am making some flower pins with fake flowers from the store.

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 2 – Applique Headband

By Andrea | March 2, 2011 |

Today is day #2 of National Craft Month, and this is my second post about it. Impressive, huh? Today I’m going to show you some cute little headbands I made, which are VERY simple to make.

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 1 – Spring Wreath

By Andrea | March 1, 2011 |

It’s National Craft Month.  In celebration of this, I’m going to make an effort to do lots more crafting this month… and blog about it.  Hopefully this will get me back in the habit of crafting, and blogging… since I’ve been slacking in both areas lately.  My first project is one that I actually did over…

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Lots of Chocolate

By Andrea | January 3, 2011 |

I’m very excited.  I’ve just requested an order of an 11 lb. block of dark chocolate.  I can’t wait to get it in.  I’m going to use it to make lots and lots of chocolate chunk cookies from the recipie I got at the Farmer’s Daughter Holiday Baking Class. I promise to share the recipe…

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Happy 2011

By Andrea | January 1, 2011 |

Happy new year to everyone out there in blog land.  I’ve decided that a good way to start the year, would be to make a post, as I’ve not taken the time to do this recently.  Hopefully, I can catch you up with everything that has been going on, without boring you too much.

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Here for the Food #2

By Andrea | December 2, 2010 |

Today, I’m going to cover the sections on Salt and Searing in Alton Brown’s book I’m Just Here for the Food. 

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Things to Make

The Communique

One of my favorite designs, this quilt pattern is available in three sizes. Download the baby, throw, or king-size pattern today.