X-Ray

I frequently read a blog called hoping for happy accidents. The blogger has great taste. Anyway, she started this thing called a beautiful use swap. She pairs up her blog readers and asks them to exchange three items. I got paired up with a guy in Chicago who is an [...]

Felted Sweaters on the Brain

All I can think about lately is what I could make out of felted sweaters. I went to etsy and did a search and found this. It is made by a seller called Emma’s Closet.
Then I went onto FiftyRX3.com and found a posting about this artist who refashions clothes in the most amazing [...]

Lions, Poodles and Clowns — Oh My!

Last night Alex and I went to see Douglas perform in his school play. As you can see he was a scary lion. The show had a circus theme. The school invited a circus professional from Circus Smirkus to be an artist in residence at the school for a couple of months. Isn’t that [...]

More Felting Inspiration

I stole this image from Knitgrrl. I’m glad I saw this because I’m accumulating more felted sweater scraps. This image lets me know that I can sew them all together and they will look fine — better than fine.

I’m ready to sew

I stole this image from a company site called MeS Textiles. They are located in Amsterdam. I’m inspired to get sewing. Very soon Drew and I will have a more normal schedule and hopefully this will mean I will have more time for creating. How do you suppose they sewed these [...]

Be My Valentine

I was browsing through Etsy and I came across these crocheted hearts. I knew that Douglas needed to make Valentine’s Day cards for his classmates so I decided to get these hearts and have Douglas make the tags. We just cut a tag shape out of some manila folders. Wouldn’t you just [...]

My Sunday

Drew was away yesterday at a NEPA Conference in Boston. I think that stands for North East Press Association. He told me that when he got home I would be free to run off and do girl stuff. He got home around noon. First I went to the Pepperland Cafe in [...]

My Portrait from Newbury Street

I know I told you this story already but I’m going to tell you again anyway. Back before we had children, Drew and I used to go down to Boston occasionally for day trips. We have different interests so we’d spend most of the day apart, then we’d meet up together at a [...]

TED Blog

Do you know about TED? It stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. The first time I ever heard of it was when I worked for Dean Kamen back in the early 1990’s. Dean attended the conference. I forgot about it until last year when I heard Cameron Sinclair being interviewed on NPR. [...]

Knitprovisation

I saw this book during my lunch break. It’s fabulous. The models and pictures are fantastic. It is very inspirational. I discovered with a Google search that the author has her own blog.