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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am so excited that these breathtakingly beautiful chrochet flowers from Suili’s Etsy shop will soon be mine. Aren’t they amazing?
I know exactly where I am going to put them too.

That might be the most exclamation points I have ever used in a title but you can understand my excitement. My book is now available on Amazon and in stores. I cover tons of different embellishing techniques like crochet, embroidery, felting and appliqué at all different levels so there’s a little something for everyone.
Here is [...]

I got back into town last night very late and collapsed in my bed. I was happy to be home but most of all I missed this sweet little nose. Oh, the cuteness.

I am about to get really corny but I just have to say how amazing it was to meet so many cool, crafty [...]

The bags are packed and I’m off to San Francisco. Oh, I don’t know if you have ever packed for a craft fair on the other side of the country before but it’s not so easy. I have been very spoiled in that both the Craftactular and Renegade Brooklyn are a stone’s throw from my [...]

I am furiously preparing for Renegade San Francisco (and another super-to-secret project that I will talk about later) so I won’t be posting much this week. I wanted to show off a new product that I will be selling at Renegade though: quilted coasters, made possible by my brand new walking foot.

If you live in [...]