Making

Fabric Flower Tutorial #1 – Pointy Petals

By Andrea | October 7, 2010 |

Today, I am giving you a tutorial on how to make one of the types of fabric flowers I have been making recently.  We will start with the pointy petaled flowers, because this is the first kind that I made.  They’re easy… I promise!

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Fabric Flowers

By Andrea | October 1, 2010 |

Last night, I got bored… and crafty!  I made myself some fabric flowers.  I did a total of 4 of them last night… using all scrap fabrics, and vintage beads.  This means that the projects cost me $0.  Doesn’t that sound great?  It does to me.

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Green Friendly

By Andrea | September 23, 2010 |

Many of you know that I build websites for a living, both as my day job and as a freelancer.  Recently, it came to my attention that this is not completely “green.”  Of couse, by green I am refering to ecologically friendly.  Granted, websites are great, you can get lots of content and never destroy…

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Wee Bit Week 2

By Andrea | September 22, 2010 |

It’s Wednesday again, and time for another round of Wee Bit Wednesdays… ok it’re really Thursday, but I was busy yesterday, so I’m going to write this post and then predate it to be correct.  And yes, I know that’s cheating, but this weeks’ questions were hard and I needed time to think about them.…

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Note Card Collection

By Andrea | September 17, 2010 |

This is part 5 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears.   The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days.   Today, in the last installment of this series I am going to tell you about my collection of note cards.

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Recipe Book Collection

By Andrea | September 16, 2010 |

This is part 4 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears.   The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days.   Today, I’m going to tell you about my collection of Recipe Books.

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Perfume Bottle Collection

By Andrea | September 15, 2010 |

This is part 3 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears. The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days. Today, I’m going to tell you about my collection of perfume bottles.

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Dragon Collection

By Andrea | September 14, 2010 |

This is part 2 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears.   The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days.   Today, I’m going to tell you about my collection of dragons.  And yes, this is a far cry from the raccoons.

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Raccoon Collection

By Andrea | September 13, 2010 |

This is part 1 of 5 of the collections challenge by Pixies and Bears.   The challenge is to blog about a different collection you have every day for 5 days.   Today, I’m going to tell you about my collection of Raccoons.

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Adam & Eve and Cain & Abel

By Andrea | September 3, 2010 |

So, in college I took an awesome art history class on the Renaissance.  As part of the course, we were required to write a term paper on a topic of our choice.  I chose to write about the artwork depicting the story of Cain and Abel, or the lack thereof. The story of Adam and…

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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.