As promised, here is a tutorial for creating and using your own fabric stamp.  Don't forget, you can win on of these bags by entering th...

I was in Michaels yesterday and was delighted with their new spring line.  Lots of beautiful, unfinished pieces.  And you know I love unfini...

I've been working on some new pieces using another vintage handkerchief.  I realized I should start getting shots of the handkerchief be...

I decided to try out my new felting kit by making a project I saw on Craft Blog: needle-felted angry birds . It was definitely not as h...

Since I finished my Christmas piece yesterday, I am now free to work on a new embroidery kit that I received as a Christmas gift!  My parent...

I know you are dying to see the final product of my bird project.  But first, I wanted to invite anyone in the Seattle area to come out to m...

My bird is continuing to take shape.  For those of you that asked, this is a wooden bird form that I am covering with the handkerchief.  Nex...

I'm finally putting my vintage handkerchiefs to use.

Sorry!  I forgot to post yesterday.  I have a cold and with getting ready for the show yesterday, my brain forgot my blog.  Forgive me? I...

I'm busy working on more bird ornaments.  My current project is a "12 Days of Christmas" set.  Do you like my French hens so f...

I just listed this box in the shop yesterday.  It's a recipe card holder that I painted.  I decided to do the song sparrow because I ju...

I've been working on more bird ornaments.  I've been making both painted ornaments and fabric collage ornaments.  First is a little ...

Lately I've been experimenting with some image transfer paper .  You can print or color on this paper and then iron it on to different s...

Apparently others are as charmed by these darling black and yellow birds as I am.  Check out this cute treasury my ornament was included in...

Today's bird is the Blue Jay .  This is a fairly well-known species so you are probably familiar with it.  Both the male and the female ...

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you may remember when I created this tag reader necklace .  I was pretty excited about it...t...

Our Iron Craft Challenge this week was to create some sort of bag or case.  I wanted to stencil something on a tote bag and decided to use ...

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I'm starting to shift my focus away from jewelry.  As part of that, here are some new bird ornament...

I love thrift stores.  I could spend hours browsing.  I admit, I have a penchant for the tacky.  It's not unusual for me to think, ...

Today I have an awesome bird to share.  The bowerbird .  I learned about these birds during my first week of grad school.  They are awesome ...