knick knacks & ric rac

last year, jen (the brains behind the indie fixx blog) started posting a great series of wednesday indie artist interviews every week. guess who is interviewed today! i also love her new tutorial tuesday series featuring how-to’s, free patterns and fun projects to make!

yeah, i know, decorating with fake flowers is frowned upon by the professionals. it’s #1 in the hgtv list of top decorating mistakes (apparently i also suffer from #3, ‘knickknack overload’!) the problem is these guys have it all wrong, they tell you if you want to decorate with fake flowers, to buy realistic looking flowers in natural […]

you’ve seen the fun fruit and vegetable people portraits in my kitchen here, and the veggie folk i adore here. i also love these plastic fruit and veggie people figures…did these come as a kit? (you might recognize two of these guys from my ‘down on the farm’ print) fun veggie critter decals! somebody applied these to […]

you might have figured out that i really like alpine-y style woven trims. i designed the ribbon print skirt based on a few that i have, and i make this belt out of super wide vintage 60’s woven trim. okay, i’ll admit i may be a little obsessed with them, and when i find ones i like i hoard them. […]

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…

i found these guys at the thrift store yesterday. i love them! i wasn’t really planning on going, i was out doing some errands, i turned the corner and the thrift store was calling me. i was compelled to go in. they had been spray painted white but i took the paint off. this is the […]

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 […]

were you entertained (or traumatized?) by this classic german book when you were a kid?  my favorites/most feared stories were pauline and the matches, (they changed her name to harriet in my copy). the last picture of the kitties crying around the pile of her ashes always brought a tear to my eye. and naughty […]

have you seen the latest issue of craft magazine? it features a crafter profile of me! how exciting! written by the delightfully lovely and especially clever jenny of felt club and sew darn cute fame. take a peek at the article here!

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 […]