I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for a post about my new embroidery machine, but I’m already onto the next shiny thing working on a really great project to go with the unveiling. It’s coming, though. I promise. In the meantime, I was in Target today. While my friends are all inexplicably obsessed with their hand soap, …
Last Wednesday I took my very first trip to Hobby Lobby. It was an exciting day. A store just opened in Morgan Hill, which is about 55 miles south of me. This is the first time in my life that I’ve been within an hour of a Hobby Lobby, so I figured it was worth the trip. And ooohhhh, I …
Templates. Some people call them stencils, but I guess that word conjures too many images of 80s kitchens with linoleum floors and colorfully “painted” flower borders. But whatever you call them, I like these things. They’re 6×6 inches, which is really the perfect size for card-making, since you can position them either way and cover an entire background. As far …
I got a chance to work on some of that to-do list today. Still haven’t knocked anything off completely, but I’ll get there. Eventually. This morning I dragged all my sewing gear out into the dining room, figuring the baby has more toys out there and would sit still longer while I worked. Maybe that was true. She still didn’t …
Ugh. I know, it’s Wednesday on the east coast. And the quality of the pictures you’re about to see is laughable. It’s been a long day; both of my cameras had dead batteries, and the one that charged fastest was of course the crappy one. Please forgive me. Today I’m showcasing another tool that I use almost daily: the scoring …
Technically I’ve been using this paper trimmer long enough that it doesn’t qualify as new, but it is one of my newer acquisitions, and it’s also the one tool that I think every papercrafter should have*. I’m going to get into specifics here, because not all paper trimmers–not even all Fiskars trimmers–are created equal. There are three basic types: the …