Craft in America
I had fully planned on watching America's Next Top Model tonight, but completely got sidetracked by this on PBS:
Forget crazy Tyra! Craft In America = Awesome. (Hopefully it's only on for an hour, because there is no way I'm missing Glee at 10pm).
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 0 comments
filed under: tv
Sock Monkey in Costume: Ghost Monkey
This guy is a project I've been working on for Love, Me. I don't usually do a lot of seasonal crafts, but they were socks with candy corn on them. I couldn't help myself. There's a devil monkey as well (the photo quality is the worst - bad lighting and my hand was a bit shaky):
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 0 comments
filed under: sock monkeys
Ring ring ring ring, bananaphone
Something I've been working on recently:
Bananaphone! It's how sock monkeys make phone calls.
(It's crappy photo quality because I used my camera phone)
That's the first one. There are some things I plan on changing to the design, but I'm happy with it. The yellow part is from a sheet of cheap craft felt. The buttons were needle felted on. Then I did some embroidery as I am not skilled enough with the felting to put the numbers on that way. The speaker bit at the bottom started out as felting, but that didn't work so I switched to french knots.
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Monday, September 21, 2009 1 comments
filed under: embroidery, felt, plush
Craft Talk
One of my favourite crafty people sent me this video. The outfits hurt my brain, but I still love it.
So craftastic.
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Monday, September 21, 2009 2 comments
filed under: crafty music
Handmade Nation
Um, how excited am I about this screening at AFF:
That's right. Handmade Nation at Park Lane on Sept. 24. I am so there. With crafts in hand. Maybe even my Sublime Stitching Handmade Nation pattern. Love, Me has plans to make it extra DIY special.
And speaking of craftiness and DIY: deadline for applications to the Crafters' December market are due on Friday. Email halifaxcrafters @ gmail.com with 'application request' in the Subject to get an application. It's December 5 & 6 at the Olympic Community Centre, which I predict will not only be huge, but awesome.
Now, I need to get to bed. It's late and I've got The Other Blog to attend to first thing in the a.m. and a boring book to finish before it becomes overdue at the library.
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 0 comments
filed under: arts and crafts, craft fair, craft in film
Art Harvest recap
A few pictures from my table at the Crafters' Art Harvest. Man oh man. Do I ever suck at taking pictures of my work. I was hoping to use some for my application to the December market, but that's unlikely to happen.
It was a long weekend, but a good one. I'm really looking forward to the next one. Hopefully this time I'll get started on preparation more than a week ahead of time.
On another note, if you've ever "adopted" one of my monkeys, I'd love to hear about where they are now. Like this much loved monkey living in PEI:
You might notice that the eyes look a little weird. Here's a closeup:
That was an emergency eye surgery. The monkey originally had button eyes when sent up to my friends before their baby was born. When I saw the monkey over Labour Day weekend, the monkey was sans eyes and I was worried that stuffing would come out at some point (had holes where the buttons were). So those eyes were embroidered on...since they were covering holes, the embroidered eyes aren't exactly as neat as I'd like. I don't think they wee one who loves the monkey cares. She was just as happy when it didn't have eyes.
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Sunday, September 13, 2009 0 comments
filed under: craft fair, paintings, sock monkeys
This is why I'm not good at delegating
The husband meant well and I appreciated the effort (it was late, he hates messy things like glue), but this is what happened to some of the tags for the sale:
glued together. oops. I'd be better off if I didn't leave it until the night before.
Posted byHello Pineapples! on Saturday, September 12, 2009 0 comments
filed under: craft fair, craft mishaps
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