Lattice Smocking pt 2
After my last post, where I smocked a lattice stitch into some light fabric, I knew I wasn't necessarily "ready" to move onto the thick and heavy stuff, but then again Vinyl was very cheap. So I bought...
View ArticleGuest Post--tags!
Hey all, recently did my monthly post on making personalized gift tags!( http://www.indieprettyprojects.com/2012/02/diy-personalized-stitched-tags.html )
View ArticleI have to update this week!
I have to update this week, this is your TINAC:Ingredients:ShoeNailHammerNAIL THE SHOE.I'll be back later with real art.
View ArticleOot and aboot
The blog has been.......what's the word? Oh yes.BARRENLong story short, I'm trying to get a new job. Getting said job means making a new portfolio and advancing my career via said portfolio. At the...
View ArticleThe craft of telling stories
 Very Much to Say - illustration by Rachel A Jones I actually already had a post to start out my blogging again--but this isn't that post. Lately I feel I've been so wrapped up in the How-To's that I...
View ArticleNetting: A smidge harder than knitting
Since I found my Great-Grandma Jeppson's netting bag a year or so ago, I've felt it somewhat my duty to try and spread her lost craft of netting. I searched elsewhere online for good resources and...
View ArticlePainting Playlist
I've been wondering how to remake this blog. Something I've been wondering about too much and not doing enough of. It's because I know that I'm genuinely increaaaaaadibly different than most of the...
View ArticleScrew it
Some thing I drew that one time... I say a lot of things that I say in the hopes that I do it because I said it. One of those things was a focus for this blog and LOL screw it. Seriously, what was I...
View ArticleStuff I like
Stuff to Buy I don't have any money right now to buy stuff, but if I could, I'd buy this stuff: 1. Daphne This typeface. So beautiful. One weight is about 70 Euros so...youknow...I'll just look at how...
View ArticleSave my Succulent!
I have a really hard time with plants, and so when Boris and Myopia, my succulents, lived through more than three months I got super excited. Until this happened. Myopia just started drooping like...
View ArticleHorrible Children's book ideas
You guys, I'm still hassling my mid-twenties crisis. It's a thing. Everyone I know in mid-twenties has a similar crisis. Or maybe I just say that to make myself feel better. Also: some pirate thing I...
View ArticleNetting video tutorial
Ah, finally, I made a video of the standard stitch. It's blurry and I was so tired it sounds like I'm tearing up at my great-grandmother's doily part but who knows maybe that makes it more heartfelt?...
View ArticleBeets and Carrots
I never post food posts, but beets and carrots. Beets and carrots. The garden is nearing the end, meaning that these puppies I have been waiting for all of these months and months are finally eatable....
View ArticleWhat color should her dress be?
For those still reading this blog: I'm currently doing a project--I want to render this chick I drew and animate her dancing for a dias de los muertos thing with a Maya class--which color of dress is...
View ArticleThis is Still a Craft
I was having my 9 AM narcolepsy (happens to me a lot because I'm an insomniac--so when I don't sleep well I have narcolepsy from 7 AM to 9 AM it's really annoying) and having a crazy lucid dream where...
View ArticleRestarting
Lately I've been having kind of a bad attitude (a really bad attitude), but you know what, I'm feeling better. It's bound to happen with job struggles and the likes, but honestly I know I can do...
View ArticleNew Year
2012 was so weird. It shouldn't have been, it was setting itself up to be just like any other year: The world was bending to uncertain apocolypse, politics were astir with people no one really wanted...
View ArticleSomething for My Handshoe and Me
I woke up today, excited to have another productive day with art and stuff, when I pulled my right hand out of whack while washing my hair. So now it's got it's handshoe on, trying to go back to terms...
View ArticleGeometrography, a craft you cannot say ten times fast
my original painting didn't have the mathy part in it. But maybe I should add it in. People really like math here in Silicon Valley. I had a painting kick the last few days. Maybe because I've been...
View ArticleMy High School Art Teacher
My high School art teacher passed away from a rare form of lung cancer earlier this year at only the age of 47. Since I'm about ten years since graduating, it makes sense that I wouldn't know right...
View ArticleCareer Block: AKA we've all been here before
The other day I was talking to a friend of mine, who had been a photojournalist who traveled the world, and with the fall of newspapers and magazines, was back at school to start a career in something...
View ArticleBobbin Lace: how to change bobbins when the thread runs out.
From my last bobbin post, I was able to finish a bobbin lace bookmark no problem. But then it got used as a bookmark and it's somewhere in our hundreds of books and I don't know where. I'll find it...
View ArticleEtsy Forum FAQ - how to get a clean white background without using the lasso...
I like to lurk around Etsy Forums sometimes, it gives me an idea of what other sellers are going through, and there are a few questions that get asked a lot. Like a lot a lot. Especially this one,...
View ArticleDrafting tips on how to make spiral staircases in 2 pt perspective. AKA,...
The other day I decided to do this, since I used to draft back in my very short architectural period, and youknow what? Computers are great. They make spiral staircases. It used to be architects would...
View ArticleCarpel Tunnel Woes
Mermaid Umbrella by R A J If you haven't noticed, I haven't updated this blog in a very long time. In fact, it's been so long, that Google notified me and told me to step up and pay for my domain....
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