Monthly Archives: November 2009

Make Quick Mittens

November 30, 2009 | Topic: craft, Guest, recycled sweaters, Tutorials/Tips

Hi! I’m Heather from Dollar Store Crafts, a daily blog devoted to making cool crafts with dollar store stuff. I’m so excited to be swapping holiday posts with Dot! Do you love felted sweaters as much as I do? Felted (or technically, “fulled”) sweaters are made… Read on...

Happy Almost December!

November 29, 2009 | Topic: Announcement, inspirations

You can’t deny it now, the holiday are really upon us now… Stay tuned this week for 3 Holiday Tutorials! Some Fun holiday stuff from Last Year, while you’re waiting…:

Make a Shrink Ornament Santa HERE (includes template)
Lemon Pie – Decorate with a winter

… Read on...

Thanksgiving’s over… Leftovers?

November 28, 2009 | Topic: food, inspirations

A few quick ideas… Do you have your own tricks for using up your leftovers? Vegan Thanksgiving Leftover Pizza Turkey Panini Curried Turkey Croquettes Leftover Pies Day After Thanksgiving Food ideas 10 Tasty ideas for leftover turkey 10 More… Read on...

Link day: Tutorials and other fun things

November 27, 2009 | Topic: Uncategorized

Paul (from the fabulous blog Dudecraft) has a great tutorial on making papercut portraits! Go check it out! One of my favorite web destinations, Dollar Store Crafts, has a cute tutorial on making a placemat advent calendar. Here’s a tutorial at Craftster… Read on...

Thanksgiving Creative Cakes and Sweets!

November 26, 2009 | Topic: food, inspirations

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone (in the US, at least… the rest of you, just have a happy day!)…
I figured it was time for another Flickr Roundup! Here are some fun and creative cakes, cookies, and other sweets with a thanksgiving theme… who needs pumpkin pie! … Read on...

Happy Thanksgiving Link Day

November 25, 2009 | Topic: inspirations

Just a little fun list of Thanksgiving Links!

… Read on...

Turn a negative into a positive (and how Sears gets social media)

November 25, 2009 | Topic: website design

I like twitter. Within the loosely knit community of crafty folks I hang out with on Twitter, we’ve been having discussions about the right and wrong ways to use Twitter, and about effective (and SOOO not effective) ways… Read on...

Handmade Christmas Ornament Tutorials

November 24, 2009 | Topic: craft, inspirations

If you’re making Christmas ornaments, you’d better get started now! So here is the first of the 2009 collection of links to holiday ornament tutorials! (For more ideas, check out Last Year’s here). I love this Polaroid Ornament from Katie Cupcake! And she has a detailed… Read on...

Elder Gods have a lot of time on their hands…

November 23, 2009 | Topic: art, my art

This design was inspired by a twitter conversation with my friend rit. I had just showed off The Crafty Octopus to my twitter friends, and everyone liked it. But rit’s comments just made me have to go make this image. The conversation has been recorded below, for posterity’s… Read on...

Gelatinous Zooplankton (aka Jellyfish!)

November 21, 2009 | Topic: art, my art

Apparently, Jellyfish is not a fish. They also don’t have giant eyes like these, but I did read that one species has no brain, but 4 very good eyes. So the fourth (or third if you count the order they were posted on twitter!) in the black and white… Read on...