March 24th, 2008
Suzanne Shafer-Wilson creates the most beautiful baskets in a medley of mediums.
Some of her baskets are made with copper and silver wire. They look like they could float away, they are so airy and bouyant.
Others are earthy and solid… being made of the stuff of life itself.
For your hit of inspiration today, definitely check out […]
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March 22nd, 2008
Ohmigosh! this link is going to go viral!
My daughter, Chloe, just sent me the link for the lampshade that is knitting itself…. yep.
Knitted lampshade knitting itself
Tags: knitted lampshade, knitting
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March 21st, 2008
Once again, Morgan has found a brilliant site…
the spirit dolls of Charla Khanna are enough to lift you right into the stratosphere.
Tags: Charla Khanna, inspiration, one of a kind dolls, spirit dolls
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March 21st, 2008
This week’s Carnival of artsy bloggers is a gathering of many fun things…..
Delightful spool knitted goodies- Kittycat bookmark
This week, Noreen has designed a couple of really fun treasures- it all began with a spool knitted kitty cat bookmark, which lead to a springtime bunny. Who knows where it will all end?
Layers Upon Layers
Want to […]
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March 20th, 2008
For the last week, this Jane Austen spool knitter has been sitting on my desk, unpainted.
I have been waiting for the perfect moment to start drawing the image on it.
All of a sudden, today it just seemed like the right time to draw her…. so here she is!
Homage to Jane Austen in a lace trimmed […]
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March 20th, 2008
Agata Olek is a multi media artist who brings together crochet, dance and performance. She creates pieces that ask us to question our ideas about how we see the world.
Albert Einstein would be proud. After all, he’s the one who said that creativity means seeing the world in new ways.
Agata Olek does exactly that.
Her website
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March 19th, 2008
The other evening, I had one of those incandescent times that leave an afterglow of delight for days.
Friends of ours (he is one of the musicians in Jim’s trio, and she is an artist extraordinaire) have a ‘chocolate/coffee/chai/music’ evening once a year.
Their house is small and beautifully embellished and they fill it with musicians and […]
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March 18th, 2008
Yesterday, my daughter in law emailed me from work.
Would it be hard to learn to weave the strap for a camera case for her sister?
Not at all!
So, last night, after supper, we got the loom warped, and she sat right down and wove her first band:
She did a gorgeous job! She’s a born weaver.
Am I […]
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March 18th, 2008
How to describe Jean and Rita ? Well, they are the corner stones of the crochet world, as well as being mighty darned important in the rest of the yarnosphere.
Both are smart, funny and sharp! Bless ‘em. To say that they are feisty is to need to ramp up the meaning of ‘feist’!
They’ve got a […]
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March 18th, 2008
Karen sent me this really neat link. Thanks, Karen!
It’s for a felted stone rug….. yep….
Neato!
Tags: felt, felting, rug, rugmaking
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