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Here’s a list of free tutorials and craft projects from 2008 to inspire you to create something in 2009. There are many sewing tutorials, plus lots of other crafty pr...
Handmade Holidays
By: cereals
Making Your Own Holiday Gifts Make it: A Felty Bow Bow*tastic DIY Decor If You're Wondering Why... Make It: A Mixed CD That Doesn't Suck Handmade Voices The Joys* of ...
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Hope Through Art
HopeStringer
| 3 days ago
This is Jeremiah. He is one of those kids who you are immediately drawn to. His bright smile and unforgettable laugh make you overlook the fact that he lives by his own r...
making memories with sprinkles
mama bear
| 1 day ago
This Christmas both kids got a chance to roll out dough, choose cookie cutters, and sprinkle colored sugar on their creations. We used a traditional sugar cookie recipe t...
My First Crochet Project
jenpc
| 11 days ago
I chose the “Easy Chain Loops Narrow Headband” by Sandi Marshall ( http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa040105.htm ). A headband was something I wanted. These di...
whitehorse veranda summer and winter
Stubblejumpers Café
| 2 days ago
Alma Jones was a nurse up in the Yukon, and was my great-great aunt. I never met her, but many of her belongings are now in my possession. That is not her in the photo of...
See My Work On Etsy
C. S. Alexis
| 1 day ago
You can view this Black Dragonfly and other work I have designed by going to my etsy shop I call CSAlexisAdriftArtStudio. Check it out and let me hear some feedback! ...
All the knitters in the house say "Hey!"
claire
| 14 days ago
Who here knits? Who here likes free things? Why not combine the two with this awesome offer of 5 free sock knitting patterns ? I can think of no reason not to. Love to al...
Buy Handmade
ksienko
| 23 days ago
Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is handmade. I've been good (mostly), so please fill my stocking with artisan jewelry, organic bath and body products, vintage-inspir...
Scrooged. Scrooge needs a better PR agent.
Dan Weisman
| 24 days ago
This must be truly a season for giving. How else can we explain giving a presidential election to a guy who lost by more than half a million votes? I'm still bitter about...
New Years thought!
Greek Traveler
| 5 days ago
I am thankful that I own my home (as I look at the house from the back yard), and that each week I set out the trash... by evening it's gone. These things are simple thin...
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A Young Adult in 2009
By: welshgrl2
For the past three years I have made a new years resolution every year... and I have kept every single one of them. How did I do it? I picked resolutions that were fu...
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(BLANKING) Technology
mama bear
| about 21 hours ago
When it comes to certain things -- fashion, trends, technology -- I am behind the times. I accept this, and move on... until it bites me in the tush. My 1 year old comput...
making memories with sprinkles
mama bear
| 1 day ago
This Christmas both kids got a chance to roll out dough, choose cookie cutters, and sprinkle colored sugar on their creations. We used a traditional sugar cookie recipe t...
My First Completed Crochet Project
jenpc
| 3 days ago
After buying some variegated cotton yarn , I decided to crochet a cotton scrubbie. That way I could try the yarn, and practice crocheting in the round. I chose the patter...
Hope Through Art
HopeStringer
| 3 days ago
This is Jeremiah. He is one of those kids who you are immediately drawn to. His bright smile and unforgettable laugh make you overlook the fact that he lives by his own r...
whitehorse veranda summer and winter
Stubblejumpers Café
| 2 days ago
Alma Jones was a nurse up in the Yukon, and was my great-great aunt. I never met her, but many of her belongings are now in my possession. That is not her in the photo of...
Tip: Use Foundation Stitches
jenpc
| 3 days ago
Instead of a foundation chain, you can start with a foundation stitch. Advantages include that this: Tends to be quicker because the chain and first row are combined in o...
New Years thought!
Greek Traveler
| 5 days ago
I am thankful that I own my home (as I look at the house from the back yard), and that each week I set out the trash... by evening it's gone. These things are simple thin...
Book Review: Crochet Your Way
jenpc
| 3 days ago
Book: Crochet your way by Gloria Tracy and Susan Levin, The Taunton Press, Inc., Newtown, CT, 2000. Personally, as a beginner, I'm not interested in making an afghan, or ...
big noise...hm
Stubblejumpers Café
| 4 days ago
When I switched on my bedside radio at 7:30 this morning, the weather report stated that the temperature in my part of Saskatchewan was -33. I believe it— the furnace o...
My First Purchase of Hooks and Yarn
jenpc
| 6 days ago
All I had was odds and ends. Two crochet hooks and some small balls of yarn. It was hard to be certain that any of those balls of yarn would be large enough for even a sm...
