knick knacks & ric rac

i’m still a little obsessed with the Cutest Handbag in the World. i really want a cuckoo clock purse. i was thinking i could make one out of an old wooden house purse, and i started looking at the endless array of house purse options on ebay… i think i’m going to get one and […]

you know i like knick knacks, and i like to make knick knack art with them. i started a bunch of these shadowboxes a while ago and i work on them here and there when i need to take a break from printing and sewing. i finished these two up last night… the mermaid one […]

i know i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again, i love etsy! one of the big reasons i love etsy is because of ilona’s shop gaudy goods, and her delightful handmade brooches. these newest ones really knock my socks off! i mean really! i have several of her brooches, the most recent one i […]

digging up those flower pins got me thinking about other things i used to collect that i don’t really collect anymore. i collected travel tiles for a while, i was planning on making a table out of them, then i collected so many i thought it would be fun to do a kitchen counter or […]

i’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for some kind of reusable grocery bags that tickled my fancy, but haven’t seen any that i liked enough to actually buy. i just fed the birds the last of the giant bag of bird seed and i was marveling at the fine strength and durability of the 40 lb […]

finished! the brown one has a glass bumblebee strung with it, the red one has a glass ladybug. yippee!!

i originally made these for myself, one red and one brown to wear with my toadstool skirts, but they came out so darn cute i thought i would make a bunch of them to offer on my website as well. this is what they started out like… my mushroom factory, the first coat of paint. the red have white stems […]

i collect, and have collected (amassed? hoarded?) a lot of different things. i was rummaging around in the basement and i dug up these metal enamel flower pins i used to collect in high school. there’s a ton of them, i started counting and got up to 200, then somebody started playing a ukelele outside and i […]

the target near my house is part of a mall full of odd discount stores and a chuck e. cheese. about a month ago i was there picking up some kitty litter and i left through the exit that spits you out into the mall part, when walking by a newly opened store i saw The Cutest Handbag In The World. […]

the summer temps this weekend got me thinking about picnics, and got me sewing up some tasty picnicking skirts! take a peek at them over here in the ‘limited edition goodies’ section of my shop.