I have not packed anything for myself yet for my trip, yet I keep trying to squeeze in a few more craft and sewing projects! Here are some little travel game folders I made for my son and the friend who will be traveling with us.

I got the idea from THIS tutorial at Creating My Way […]

Just in time for our big vacation to France (!!!), I made this Passport Dress from Sew Lisette (Simplicity 2209). I really like this line of patterns by Liesl Gibson, the designer of the Oliver + S children’s patterns. In fact, I bought 3 of the 4 patterns when Jo-Ann’s had the Simplicity pattern sale for […]

More shirts made with my Silhouette machine, this time using the smooth heat-transfer material instead of the flocked. Again, I used coloring book pages for the designs, though I tweaked them a bit in Photoshop to get rid of some of the details and make the outlines thicker.
I nearly gave up on the Millennium Falcon — […]

Thank you so much for all the kind words. It was especially nice to read them this week when I was in Chicago for work, learning how to shoot video for AP and pretty much feeling like a failure! (Example: the time I approached someone at a bus stop, got her to put on a microphone, […]

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 I hope I’m not the only participant in the Sew,Mama,Sew! Giveway Day who frets about her item not being “good enough.” I was all set to just give away the whale pillow I made for the “Summer with Matthew Mead” magazine, but then I had second thoughts. So at […]

Here’s a birthday gift for one of my son’s new buddies and fellow Star Wars fanatic. I scanned a page from one of my son’s coloring books and used Photoshop to get rid of the background and color in some areas, and then used my Silhouette machine to cut the shape out of flocked heat-transfer material. […]

I finally have my copy (and one to share) of the Summer with Matthew Mead magazine featuring my whale pillow project! The magazine is gorgeous.

Click here to see my previous post with the pattern […]

My son has just started being a bit picky about his clothes and other things in terms of not wanting to appear “babyish.” The space ship motif on his water bottle, for example, was recently deemed “for little kids.” So I tried to keep that in mind in making him the  reversible bucket hat from “Oliver […]

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Here’s my latest AP craft story for Mother’s Day:  how to make a family tree using maps that feature your relative’s first names. I made a few of these last year for wedding and Christmas gifts and all the recipients seemed to like them. I just love […]

I’m a little late picking a winner for the Summer with Matthew Mead magazine … but here you go: Congratulations Christine!

I will send you an e-mail to get your address. I don’t actually have the magazine yet, but should by […]