knick knacks & ric rac

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 […]

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 […]

i love reading other people’s diaries. not when they don’t want me to, of course, but once they’re published for the world to see, that’s okay, isn’t it? i love the ‘covered wagon women-diaries and letters from the western trails’ series which goes from 1840-1903. there are 11 books in the series, i think i’m about half […]

i took a little break from making them, but since i’ve gotten a bunch of requests for them, the dutch treat tea towels are back! i’ll be offering more of the toadstool tea towels too, as soon as i have a chance to print them up.

here’s a sneak peek at one of the new skirt prints i finished up this week. i’m calling this one ‘fairytale forest’, for obvious reasons! there’s also a third colorway featuring red riding hood. it’s a wrap-around skirt with the deep dark woods print all the way around, and fairytale figures on the very end based on illustrations from […]

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 […]