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Ever since developing and shooting the braiding story ‘A new twist’ for our August issue of Martha Stewart Living, I’ve been braiding non stop. On the train, at the pool, at the soccer field. I really love portable crafts, plus the necklaces and bracelets make perfect summer gifts! Hopefully, now that you have the issue, …
Our August issue of Martha Stewart Living is out on the news stands! It’s all about easy living ideas. Hopefully you will get some inspiration and will have an easy, relaxing summer full of fun craft projects.
The dipping and dyeing story I worked on for this issue was developed and shot last year during the …
Between work and home projects, I constantly have many fabric and paper swatches for color reference and inspiration all around me.
Often when I’d be at a fabric store shopping for one story, I’d wished I had all my other swatches with me too.
I’ve had this little moleskin folder to organize my receipts for a while …
How is it the last day of the school year already ?! Each year this day seems to come faster and faster. Normally I give an ice cream kit to the teachers as an end of year present, but this time we’ve already had this wonderful teacher once before and I didn’t want to give …
This store is hardly just a yarn store, and certainly not the kind of yarn store you may be used to. Located on the 8th floor in a nondescript building in New York’s flower district, Habu Textiles is more like a work room and when you enter, you feel like you’ve entered the world of some very …
It all started when I made a vest and sweater for my sons and our friend Julie was full of praise. It inspired me to make a grown up vest, which Julie and Nick ended up buying from me at the Craft fair. I was curious how they would share this one vest, and it …
My dear friend Goli recently got a sewing machine, so I thought it would be an appropriate birthday gift to put together a special sewing box. I found a nice simple box at West Elm, the perfect little inserts and dividers at Container store and the goodies for the inside at Michaels and local sewing …
My mother just gave me 2 more vases for my birthday to add to my collection. I’m so excited !
So I thought I’d write a little bit about Wilhelm Wagenfeld, the designer of the vases and many other things, for you.
I started collecting the vases in the early 1990’s, shortly after his death. At that …
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