knick knacks & ric rac

since the article in craft magazine i’ve gotten a bunch of emails asking about my screen printing set-up, so i thought i’d share a peek inside my screen printing shack…

since the first pair i painted, i’ve been thinking about what to paint next. i pulled these ones out of my closet yesterday afternoon. i bought them at the thrift store about 7 or 8 years ago, i don’t think i’ve ever worn them. they’re actually quite comfortable but every time i try them on, the […]

remember way back when, when i was talking about getting a wooden house purse and painting it to look like a little cuckoo clock from my collection? well, i got one that was barn shaped because i thought it resembled this. i finally finished it up, here’s how it came out! for the weather house couple and […]

i just added a new colorway for the schwarzwalder skirt! it’s pale gold with a brown print, brown toadstool applique and brown ric rac trim.

  i found the little lamb planter at the thrift store on saturday…i should have been doing a bunch of other things today, but made this picture instead. i couldn’t help myself, the knick knacks just went together too perfectly! it looks like i’m wishing for spring already. i found the dutch girl planter at a thrift store last year, and the […]

my friend christina owns a little shop in a small town in bavaria and has a line of handmade clothing and accessories for women called mein herzblut. she also makes little outfits for her collection of old taxidermied critters and decorates them with felt flowers and crocheted toadstools! she sent me a few pictures and i thought i […]

i made these fun and festive alpine inspired sweaters from two plain old pullovers i bought at the thrift store. one was a pink boucle crew neck and the other was a green v-neck heathered with blue and yellow specks. this is what they looked like before…not very exciting… here’s how you can do it […]

i found this pretty plum colored boucle cardigan at the thrift store, which just so happens to go perfectly with my plum wycinanki skirt! the problem was two of the five buttons had fallen off. i went to find some new buttons for it at the fabric store and couldn’t believe how expensive the fancy buttons were! i needed pretty […]

i just added a few new fun goodies, take a peek at the monkeyin’ around skirt, made from fun vintage fabric featuring frolicking wild animals in the jungle. trimmed with mustard ric rac at the hip and hem. deer brooches-choose from a handsome buck in a scalloped heart or a darling little fawn on a […]

socorro made another pair of smiling snail potholders… take a peek at them here!