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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
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!
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
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 […]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
i just discovered this on etsy…did i just die and go to heaven!?! (by sweet hayseed) i especially love the pinecones tied on at the bottom of the braids. nice touch! i might try that on myself!
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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. […]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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 […]
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
one of my new prints for fall/winter. coming soon! inspired by polish pottery, but i’ll bet you already guessed that! it’s printed on my very favorite fabric, natural unbleached cotton duck. i love everything about this fabric…the little specks in it, the weight and texture of it, and i love the smell of it fresh off […]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
sometimes i find things i love and need to have them. that happened when i stumbled into betty jo’s lino forest. one day i want to own one of everything. i think i’m well on my way… liz’s brooches, necklaces and clocks are all made from recycled vintage linoleum and decorated with cute bits of embroidery and buttons. her […]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
my friend nikki gave me a huge stash of fancy patterned ric rac a while ago, so i couldn’t resist trying out a few of these flowers with it. check them out!
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
i just finished adding some new skirts to my website…take a peek at the fairytale forest skirt and some more limited edition skirts… fruit stripe skirt-this one reminds me of the tasty gum! wallpaper print skirt featuring a fantastic vintage wallpaper print fabric i wrote about last year purple posies skirt featuring my lazy daisy print on […]
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
these cute shirred ric rac flower brooches are super fast and easy to make, even for someone like me who has little patience for hand stitching! these are based on part of a ric rac wallhanging project from the book “creative crafts & stitchery” (1976). in the original project, the shirred ric rac was glued to […]
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