just hanging on the vine.

hello again! Once again I feel like it’s been forever since I last posted. ok, maybe more like three weeks. whatever. That’s a long time for me. I haven’t been working on much, which is probably the main reason for my lack of posting. Plus I’ve been super busy at work. Those are my excuses. [...]

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and there were only two ducks.

finally, spring I noticed the trees outside the window at work are blooming pretty white flowers. I’m so thankful my desk faces the windows. Otherwise I’d be looking at a wall all day. yuck. shipping woes My Vintage Halloween projects are safely across the country now, in the hands of Somerset Studio. I won’t even [...]

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bibbity bobbity boo.

boo to you So here are my Vintage Halloween Party Favor Sacks. I was kind of in a hurry when I took these pictures – and it shows. They’re not very good, and they really don’t do the sacks justice. But I won’t have another chance to photograph them before I pack them up, so [...]

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i’m the very model of a modern major general.

happy song I heard this song for the first time today – what a fun song! It was stuck in my head for a while. to no avail Anyway, I worked on some more Polyshrink stuff last Saturday and ended up wasting three sheets. Well, not exactly wasted. I managed to make half a sheet [...]

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i want my skirt and my tap shoes.

vintage paper lovelies My mom bought me Anna Corba’s Vintage Paper Crafts for Christmas. I wrote up a little review – check it out in the Library (scroll all the way down). I bought some more clear rubber stamps from AC Moore. I forget the official name for these but I think it was something [...]

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i really don’t know clouds at all.

polyshrink paradise I have continued my Polyshrink playtime. And I’ve even learned an important lesson. Tsukineko VersaMagic Multi-surface Chalk Ink – no smears. Tsukineko VersaColor Ultimate Pigment Ink – smears like crazy. Good thing the pieces I’m working on are just practice. I used the VersaColor in black to stamp a bunch of pendant pieces. [...]

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ooh la la!

Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung. – William Morris I added a review of French-Inspired Jewelry, by Kaari Meng, to The Librarian. It’s a beautiful book filled with darling jewelry to satisfy the vintage French woman in all of us. Ms Meng also owns French General (look under My Favorite Shops for [...]

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