I just added some fresh made robot art pieces to my Etsy Shop, spazmade. I just love Hambly, so when I found some rub-ons while unpacking the crate after the CHA show, I just had to put them to good use.
Allison Abad at Hambly is one of my favorite designers and I love what she makes out of the rub-ons, papers, and overlays that she designs for Hambly as well. The pillows she made that she shows off in this post are rad. The girl JUST got her first sewing machine so I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next. I wonder if Quilt Market is in her future… Anyway, here are some of the new items I have added to spazmade my etsy shop, and a few more I will be adding soon!
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Of course I was sad when I picked up the very last printed issue of CRAFT Magazine. I’ve loved this magazine from the beginning and have been lucky enough to get to read every issue. I had a ball at O’Reilly Media’s (CRAFT Magazine’s parent company) Maker Faire a few years ago when I was lucky enough to set up and work at the C&T Publishing booth there. I also attended Natalie Zee Drieu’s demo-nar on the Indie Craft movement at CHA last year and of course seized the opportunity to chit-chat with all the CRAFT Magazine peeps in attendance. CRAFT Magazine and Craftzine.com really deserve a post all their own right now, but I can’t write the sad and lamenting post I’m supposed to upon hearing the news about #10 being the very last printed issue. And there are two reasons for this: I have to toot the horns of Alex Anderson and Liz Aneloski. If it wasn’t for the straight-forward no-nonsense approach found in Super Simple Quilts #1, I may have never made my first quilt. Now that the quilt is finished, it will soon be delivered to its new owner, who is a 1-month old very important delivery herself. It took me three years to approach quilting because I didn’t think I had the discipline or perfectionism to get a project done properly or without losing interest along the way. I am the queen of quick, easy projects – in the past my crafts had to accommodate my short attention span and desire for somewhat instant gratification. My Etsy shop, Spazmade, has been open since Christmas so I think I will finally go ahead and blog about it. “Why wait so long?” you ask. The thing is, I probably never would have opened shop if it wasn’t for the fact that I just moved into a super small new space and I can barely find room for storing craft supplies let alone finished crafts I don’t really have space or use for. My store inventory is currently residing in our little aluminum shed out back. I have always wanted to have a store on Etsy but I was never happy with the way it looked and what it’s name was. It’s amazing how as soon as I am feeling pressured to get rid of everything I don’t need, I come up with the perfect design and a name I like: Spaz-made. Since I am one and it is! I have already sold two items, can you believe it? Here are some pics of the other items in my store…
At the winter CHA show, C&T Publishing launched their Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Indie File Box and the packaging includes an image of the Seed Keeper project I designed. I also instructed a Stay ‘n Play of the project in our booth to a very enthusiastic group of attendees. Now the project sheet is posted here at the C&T Publishing site and I’ll have it posted here at my blog shortly. Board books are really versatile and fun to craft with – the creativity is virtually limitless – so if you like the project, check out C&T Publishing’s entire Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Book line. |
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