knick knacks & ric rac

never go out of fashion i found this at a junk shop on a cross country road trip almost 20 years ago, it’s been hanging in my various workrooms since then. the artwork really amuses me. it was a nino cerruti ad in a 1979 issue of W. here’s to making truly beautiful clothes in […]

perusing the aisles of the 99cent store the other day, i saw these packages of brightly colored polyethelene rope. my first thought was that it looked and felt like jumbo sized plastic raffia. my second thought was how awesome would it be to make jumbo sized flower loom flowers with this stuff? totally awesome!! i wondered […]

i had to do it, i couldn’t stop myself… honeycake chair! i probably could have stopped myself from making the gingerbread one, but i did it anyways… making the chairs reminded me of this little box i found, and i saw some coordinating items on etsy that i find pretty irresistable, like these shot glasses… […]

a few months ago, nynke asked me to make some art to be printed on the back of a flyer for a holiday craft fair in the Netherlands. we talked about making an ornament, so i made a kissin’ kritters ornament using the elements from my kissin’ kritters skirt print. want to make one yourself? […]