Passions I can't deny
Posted in Giveaway, craft book reviews, crafts, recycling on Aug 11th, 2010
Giveaway is closed. Congratulations to Darla Catalano from Lancaster, PA! Stay tuned for more craft giveaways.
I don’t care what the Borg said (for all of your Star Trek fans), resist is not futile. In fact it’s fun and quite easy!
While working on my review of Art Cloth by Jane Dunnewold, I played with one of [...]
Posted in Giveaway, craft book reviews, crafts, recycling on Jul 20th, 2010
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO Bethany who won this great book.
Stay tuned for more craft book giveaways!
I love books that are mini workshops. This book is one of those. When I received this book, I just had to run into my “cave” and make some of these stamps. But let me tell you [...]
This week’s column in The Evansville Courier and Press is about Jane Vickers and her jewelry from what most of us call trash. I’ve known Jane for many years and remember attending meetings where she’d be sitting and keeping her hands busy by making her jewelry. I was always amazed that she could listen and [...]
This week’s column in The Evansville Courier and Press was about Debra Talley and her recycled jewelry art. Check out her story here.
I especially love this box
and this beautiful frame.
Here’s Debra holding my favorite box of her collection.
I first fell in love with this type of art back when I was the Community Services Director [...]
Posted in Giveaway, craft book reviews, crafts, recycling on Jun 15th, 2010
GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. JANICE #2 WON!
Thank you all for entering.
I really like recycling, reusing, and repurposing items. My next column in our local newspaper will be about that very topic. But before that article is published, I’d like to share a wonderful book I received recently to review. It’s Eco Craft by Susan Wasinger.
In [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, crafts, recycling on May 10th, 2010
I love to go junking either at the local St. Vincent’s or Goodwill stores. But I also like to visit resale shops. However, I don’t seem to do this much anymore. Usually when I pass by one of these places, I think about all of the gardening and house stuff I need to do and [...]
Labeling our irises has taken up a lot of my time in the last couple of weeks. However, yesterday morning we finally were able to plant part of our church community garden where the harvest will be donated to the local food pantries. It was chilly and windy, but we planted the tomatoes, peppers, and [...]
