image from Fransje Killaars’ website.
I love the colorful textile based art of Fransje Killaars.
Inspired by many trips to India, Killaars’ art blends the concepts of function and aesthetic.
She says of her art, “I try to make an image which you cannot describe and which gives a new experience and meaning to the given space”. I [...]

I have mixed feelings about Halloween. I love all the crafting and the gathering and pumpkin and apple sweets eating, but sometimes Halloween in the big city is a little too much like New Year’s Eve with tackier outfits. I am always up for a crazy outfit but sometimes I think it’s more fun to [...]

I finally had some crafting time this weekend and made some napkins for my friend Jenn’s birthday. The napkins come from a tutorial on the Purl Bee. I added the leaf applique because I am currently loving all things fall and I thought it needed a little extra something.
After the napkins were finished, I got [...]

1379 crafty people have signed the Handmade Pledge so far. You should be next!
Eight major players in the independent craft and design community, including Etsy, Craft Magazine and Burdastyle recently joined together to form the Handmade Consortium to encourage people to buy handmade this holiday season. Over the next few weeks, the website will be [...]

If you are in Philly tomorrow, be sure to check out the Emily Barletta show at Art Star Gallery.
Emily’s crocheted pieces are tactile and colorful, suggestive of cells and micro-organisms.

According to Emily’s artist statement the work “consists of small crocheted forms that are accumulated and assembled to create larger pieces that reference imaginary body structuresthe [...]

I love the simplicity and sweetness of these projects in Japanese craft book Tanu. Fall and winter are my favorite seasons and I am getting impatient for fall to actually start!

I get all caught up in the magic of the winter and the holidays and the 80 degree weather we are having today is [...]

I’m back from Plush You! and I had such a good time! The show was really fun; lots of friends and family came out, including a bunch of cousins I hadn’t seen in years. I am going to have a full review of Plush You! on Adorn later this evening if you want to read [...]

On Sunday afternoon, I went on a leisurely walk through Discovery Park in Seattle with Mr. Loveforever and his parents.
It was a beautiful clear day, the kind that Seattleites don’t often get in October and our walk was nothing short of magical. Treelined forest groves give way to meadows and seaside cliffs and it is [...]

I love when people use an unusual material for their canvas and I think these drawings on rocks from the julia likes blog are a really good example of this. Rock art has a tendency to be tacky and garish (think rock pets!) but these really show off the natural beauty of the rocks.
Found on [...]

As I have said before, I don’t like to spend too much time on this blog talking about things that i really want to buy or want to persuade others to buy. However, I do think it’s really important to showcase work by amazing indie designers and artists.
And so I added a new links section [...]