Upcycled Wildlife

In our backyard we have all kinds of butterflies.  But for my girls they never hold still quite long enough.  So I’ve been using our old aluminum cans to add more butterflies into their lives.
WARNING – cutting aluminum is dangerous, I use a pair of leather gloves.  Also, we keep them in sight but out [...]

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Great News

Guess what, I’ve gotten some great news lately and my upcycled geisha doll will be appearing in Art Doll Quarterly’s May 1, 2009 issue. I just can’t wait!
Art Doll Quarterly is published by Stampington & Co. and I love, love all of their books, in fact I’m really excited about their Green Craft magazine [...]

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Open Market in NY

In my recent vacation I got an opportunity to visit my brother and his wife in NY. They were kind enough to humor me for a few days and we did a great little open market antique fair.
I’m still not the type to drop too much but there were some great tapestry purses and [...]

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Owl

I like buying patterns from Etsy and using my own collection of old and worn out clothing to make new stuffed friends. She is made up of a great lumberjack shirt in orange that I just couldn’t part with

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AWOL

I’m afraid we’ve had a few computer problems here at home and then I went on 6 weeks of vacation. So, back to the swing of things.

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