Here’s something exciting! Right now, on Amazon, you can buy my book, Complete Embellishing, with Lena Corwin’s wonderful book, Printing by Hand, for a special discounted price!

That’s pretty cool and it’s really flattering to be in such talented company.

Also: you can get yet another chance to win a copy of my book over on Not Martha!

Last week, my friend Siri and I had the first of what promises to be many many headdress-making parties.

Now that my hair is so long, I have been all over hair accessories, the wilder the better. I have been collecting lots of vintage millinery pieces and I have lots of ideas!

Here’s the one I made above.

And this is the one Siri made.

Apparently I love things made from balloons, things like ampersands and poodles.

I also love this balloon graffiti by D. Billy. How happy would you be if you encountered this on your way home from work? I know it would make my week.

Found via the awesome blog Borrowed, Bought, Stolen.

Check out the Craft Stylish website for my project on making cards and tags with recycled magazines. The how-to is on the front page today!

Thanks to Diane at Craftypod for the glowing review of my book Complete Embellishing. So sweet! If you didn’t win a copy of the book last week, you can get another chance by leaving a comment on Diane’s blog.

Oh, and I’m writing another book! More details soon…

Beautiful in their restraint, this collection of mixed media pieces are made by the artist tsilli pines.

To see more of her work, click here.

I love the photos Todd Selby takes of people’s homes in New York. They are refreshingly unstyled, creative and real. It’s so unsettling to see all these perfect New York homes featured in magazines; who lives in these places, especially in this city? Part of the charm of the New York apartment is that there’s something just a little off about it- the floors are sloping, the rooms are oddly shaped, the radiators clank and clunk. I am always so much more impressed when people make something amazing with what they have than if they just have the whole place designed for them.

These photos remind me a lot of an American version of my beloved Paumes books. It’s sad that Amaerican design magazines don’t have any interest in showing “real” homes.

OK, that last one is from Philadelphia but it’s close to New York!

You can see many more shots of some New York apartments on the Selby website.

I am having a bit of necklace moment lately. This weekend, I picked up the most beautiful, strange and wonderful necklace in the word, made by my friend Wren, who is just so so talented. I can’t wait to wear it!

Some of other necklaces I am loving right now here, here and here.

Congrats Casey of Casey’s Musings (who has a lovely, lovely blog by the way! Check it out!), the winner of my book!

By the way, it was really cool to hear all the crafts you all want to learn. I, like so many of you, still want to learn how to crochet! I have been offered lessons by some of my favorite crocheters and yet I still can’t seem to find the time. Someday I will slow down and try something new!

Oh, how time flies by! I forgot to tell all of you that I will be teaching reverse appliqué online at Etsy today at 4pm as part of their How-to month!

There are a lot of other great tutorials this week so check them out.

PS- I will be announcing the winner of my book giveaway later today!

Do you have some serious crafty skills? Then hop on over the Craft Stylish and enter their “Tote-ally Craft Bag Challenge”. All you have to do is make or embellish and amazingly crafty tote bag, post it on the site and you could win an amazing prize of over $250 in crafty goodness.The deadline to enter is July 31. Click here for more info.