Monthly Archives: July 2008

Wednesday Interview Series – Diana Evans, Artist/Illustrator

July 16, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

–Don’t forget! The Summer Doldrums contest – Art or craft… It’s fun to share your stuff!–
(all images c Diana Evans – www.dianaevans.ca) Last Week: Craftypod * All Interviews For the 2nd Interview in the Dabbled Series, our focus is Art &… Read on...

PSA – Dr Horrible starts today!

July 16, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

yeah, another post so soon after the last one, but I did feel a public service announcement was in order… Dr. Horrible starts today! If you’re not familiar, it’s the latest indy project by Joss Whedon (ya know, Buffy, Firefly, Angel, all that jazz) and it’s only… Read on...

Shrinky Dinks Test Lab – The Wrap-up Of It All…

July 16, 2008 | Topic: craft, Featured Craft, highlight, shrinky dinks

Hope you all enjoyed the shrinky dinks test lab… I sure did!
A reminder, I want to see your creations. If you’re on Flickr, add your pictures to the new Dabbled pool, and/or put a comment here (with a link to your blog) or one of… Read on...

Several things… including the winner of the Shrinky Comment Contest!

July 15, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

–Don’t forget! The Summer Doldrums contest – It’s fun to share your stuff!–
Coming tomorrow, the second installment of the Dabbled Interview Series: Diana Evans, an artist and illustrator and prolific blog proprietress from Ontario, Canada. Be sure to check it out! And a… Read on...

Ginny the Baby Ele-purse

July 14, 2008 | Topic: craft, recycled sweaters

You remember the Ele-purses, right? Well, this is a Baby Ele-purse, and her name is Ginny. Please welcome her into the world.
I envisioned the pattern for this one the other day, and couldn’t stop myself from attempting immediately. Except for the strap, she’s made entirely from one felted… Read on...

Illustration Friday – Foggy

July 13, 2008 | Topic: art, Illustration Friday, my art

A spot illustration for a project I’m working on. It’s foggy from the smoke.. Poor little guy…

An exercise in using Blogger to create an art portfolio site

July 11, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

If you’re looking to create an art or photography portfolio using Blogger, or other free blog software, you’ve come to the right place!
This is the first post about what I did.
You’ll also find these useful:

7/08: Steps to create a portfolio in Blogger If you already

… Read on...

Excuse the technical difficulties…

July 11, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

I royally screwed up my template working on a portfolio blog, and i’ve lost alot of my widgets and my 3 column look. All the basic stuff should work, but i’m going to have to do some recon to get everything back the way it was.

A little art for this morning – Little Monster

July 10, 2008 | Topic: art, my art

–Don’t forget! The Summer Doldrums contest – It’s fun to share your stuff!– The comments contest for the Shrinky Dinks Test Lab posts will close at midnight tomorrow.
And the winner of the Super Secret RSS Contest was CraftyJennee. Email me to claim your prize! Here’s… Read on...

Interview with Diane of Craftypod

July 9, 2008 | Topic: craft, highlight, inspirations

We’re starting a new interview series here at Dabbled — interesting people in the worlds of arts, crafts, & food — and to start it off, we have Diane from CraftyPod -The blog & podcast… Read on...