knick knacks & ric rac

i just added this new skirt to my website, just in time to wear while you’re snacking on your valentine’s chocolates. i’m calling it the swiss chocolate skirt. i printed it on cotton duck, i call the colors vanilla bean, cocoa powder and strawberry. yum! remember when i showed you this cute swiss chocolate mold i found […]

every year it’s the same old dreaded calendar hunt for me. i want something cute and smallish (but not too small) and the calendar part has to have the traditional square boxes big enough so i can write reminders to myself in them. this year instead of hunting for one, i decided to make one myself. […]

i wanted to make these cute mushroom ornaments. i printed out the tutorial last year but never got around to it. so a few weeks ago i was in joann’s in the styrofoam aisle and i thought ‘oh i can make those cute little mushroom ornaments i’ve been meaning to make forever!’ and i picked up the 6-pack of […]

i put together this page of three different knick knack gift cards for you to download and use for all of your gift-giving needs (or any other occasion where you need a little card!) all you have to do is print them out–i recommend a heavyweight paper or cardstock, and if you have a ‘photo’ setting in […]

i just added these new goodies to my website… the snow white winter woods skirt, which features a tawny owl brooch… and the snow maiden matryoshka skirt i promised earlier… and i also made the blue polish pottery print into an apron and trimmed it with giant red ric rac!

how do you feel about winter white? i think i’m really starting to like it! i just finished up this winter white version of my matryoshka skirt. i used sparkly metallic bronze and pewter ink, along with icy aqua and lavender regular ink. i’m going to call it the ‘snow maiden matryoshka skirt’. it makes me think of russian […]

i was just looking around on etsy and came across this great pattern for polish pottery mittens! (photo is from SpillyJane Knits) i guess i don’t need to mention how cute a pair of these would look with my polish pottery skirt! it might just be the thing that makes me take up knitting, although i […]

i just added two new screen printed skirts to my website, the polish pottery skirt (which i already showed you a sneak peek of here) and the wood carving skirt, featuring ‘carved’ birds, berries and hearts on a woodgrain background. this one was partly inspired by this great candle i found at the thrift store a while ago. […]

have you seen margaret’s reversible folkloric felt bonnet tutorial at resurrection fern? so cute! i had to make one right away. i still had all the felt and ric rac out from making the gingerbread hearts, so i figured i’d just make it before i put everything away. i should have been working on finishing […]

here are some fun and festive oktoberfest (or anytime!) decorations to make, felt and ric rac gingerbread hearts! i made the hearts out of brown felt and lightly stuffed them. they measure about 7″x7″. i used ric rac for the icing on the edge, and made some mini ric rac flowers for the decorations. ribbon flowers would also look cute, and […]