crafty chica field trip!
I crossed county lines to visit Oregon City last week so I could check out my friend Kathy Cano Murillo’s new Crafty Chica line at Michaels — so cool to see it in person! She has a list of all the...
View Articleget crafty at Crafty Wonderland!
If you’re in Portland on Sunday, I hope you’ll swing by the Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Sale! There will be over 200 vendors selling all things handmade and awesome, plenty of food, a full bar...
View Articlethe best kids’ art supplies for CRAFT:
I got a very fun assignment recently: I wrote a round-up of my favorite kids’ art and craft supplies for CRAFT:’s Bazaar section! Each product review also includes a handmade spinoff version like...
View Articlehandpulled for haiti + hearts for septap
Things have been a little crazy lately and our Valentine’s Day/long weekend kind of evaporated, to say the least. Trying to catch up with all my work in the meantime hasn’t left any time for fun...
View ArticleC! C! E!
I’m excited to head to Seattle tomorrow for the Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs! (Wow, entrepreneur is surprisingly hard to spell, especially several times in a row, so I decided to simplify the...
View ArticleJapan
My heart is so heavy from the worrying news from Japan, after the devastating earthquake and tsunami have left so many homeless, injured or worse. I just don’t have any words. I spent three weeks in...
View ArticleKansas City in 20 photos
Well, I absolutely loved visiting Kansas City and have a new midwest category in honor of my trip. Thank you SO much to everyone who was so cool and welcoming! Everett and I had the most awesome time...
View Articlesew expo shopping
I had such a great time at Sew Expo this weekend! Here are my finds – more on these in a minute. It was a bit of a whirlwind trip. Nancy and I drove up Friday night with a Burgerville stop, and got to...
View Articlesummer + urban craft uprising
Happy summer! After two giant deadlines, two sick kids, two trips to FedEx, and tying up about two thousand loose ends, I feel like summer has finally started around here. We had a sweet little Fourth...
View Articleromper revamp + sundress by shelly
I love Shelly Figueroa‘s work (and her book, Sewing for Boys!) and was so excited to hear about her new sewing class with Craftsy, Romper Revamp. She asked me to review it as part of her blog tour, and...
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