Sucess: Red Velvet Black & White Cookies, Take 2

Monday, February 8, 2010

What says Superbowl more than some tasty black and white cookies?
Take 2 of Joy the Baker's Red Velvet Black & White Cookies, sans red food coloring (who needs it, anyways?). They're just as tasty as the last time. The vanilla icing needs a pinch more water to be spreadable, as usual.

Pittsburgh Snow Day

Sunday, February 7, 2010

I feel like I'm still in Canada.

In Progress

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

I've got a pretty cool project in the making, but in the meantime all I have is a ginormous mess.

Pittsburgh Craft Collective's Letterpress Demo & Studio Visit

Sunday, January 31, 2010

'Attended Saturday's Pittsburgh Craft Collective "letterpress demo & studio visit" at Sapling Press where we hand-printed some predesigned Valentine's Day Cards. Die-cut the envelope liners on a Heidelberg windmill letterpress, printed the cards, trimmed them with a scary cutting-machine, scored them down the middle, and cut the rounded corners with some other machine. It was pretty cool (although slightly overcrowded with 30 attendees).

I love the indentations left on the back of letterpressed items...

I chose the girliest envelope color combinations possible.

A Few of My Flickr Favorites

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Just a few of my Flickr Favorites.

Modern Crafted Necklaces

Monday, January 25, 2010

Lately there's been an onslaught of larger more arts-and-crafts oriented necklaces in the modern craft world (by "modern craft world" I mean not hideous grandma sweaters). They're mostly doable by the average crafts-enthusiast, but I'm fascinated by the incorporation of needlework and grandma crafts into something newer and more modern. Granny chic?

Embroidered Necklace in Progress

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I've fallen in love with etsy/spinthread's embroidered necklaces (see below). I'm putting together a how-to with resources for creating your own, but for the time-being my busy-ness is preventing me from making progress. In the meantime, a peek at my progress is above (I might start over and use a different color scheme).