Call for Entries – Red Hot Party and Juried Auction
The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA is combining a competition with a fund raising auction. Sounds like a good time for glass artists looking for a challenge.
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Call for Entries – Red Hot Party and Juried Auction
If you have not yet submitted a design for Bead Star , you are in luck, as the deadline has been extended to May 10, 2010. You could be the next winner! Winning designs are showcased in the magazine, and the grand prize winner receives an all-expense paid trip to Bead Fest Santa Fe, plus a grand prize valued at up to $1000. What…
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Bead Star: Deadline for entries extended
ibeadmag recently ran an article on how to prepare “inclusions” for resin jewelry. This article written by Michael Cluley is a great resource for how to prepare everything from flowers to candy for inclusion in resin elements (such as the candy heart pictured here)
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How to: Prepare “Inclusions”
So, I’ve confessed my love of Anthropologie . But what I must say is the South has a great market of inexpensive goods, similar style, and fun to boot
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The Real Anthropologie: An Antiquing City Guide
image by The Greeting Farm and Cindy The Greeting Farm has released some super cute new stamps including a sweet Grandparents couple, Anya with flowers in her hair, a cool rocker chick and a cutie pie with a bear hat, click here to see what’s new and then you can visit their blog for lots of great ideas with these new images. -heather …
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New Release: The Greeting Farm Stamps
Everything in Enna’s shop is pretty awesome. The Cassette Envelopes , the Rabbit Paper Doll Card , the ABC Poster , the fancy embroidered Deer Patch ! All so adorable, I love her design and illustration style. You can find her blog here
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I like everything in Enna’s shops.
Deepa of This and That… blog has been posting a great series on Kantha embroidery. The basic stitch for Kantha work is running stitch, but there’s so much more to know! First Deepa gives us a bit of background and a link to free patterns . Then she gives us a look at Nashi Kantha — dazzlingly detailed embroidered quilts. And she finishes with…
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A tour of Kantha work with Deepa
To honor the 60th anniversary of the Hostess CupCake squiggle, celebrities created artwork, as inspired by the squiggle, to benefit the Free Arts NYC organization, which provides “under-served children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs”. Celebrities that submitted artwork include Chelsea Handler, Rosie O’Donnell, Gossip Girl Kelly Rutherford and Chaske Spencer (the drum set shown).…
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Celebrate the Squiggle…Submit Your Art to the Hostess Portrait of the American CupCake contest
Amy of Early Bird Special has put together a series of tutorials called Embroidery 101 . It includes transfer techniques and the five basic stitches that every beginner should know, and there are videos for the hard parts.
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Tutorial series: Embroidery 101
Sew4Home continues their Retro Fun kitchen sewing series with a tutorial showing how to make these ribbon topped kitchen curtains. Go to the tutorial . [photo from Sew4Home ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , kitchen , curtain , bow , ribbon , topper
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Tutorial: Kitchen curtains with bow toppers
This roundup of gifts for the foodie mom from delish.com has some great finds, like this cute bento box from sugarcharms , this cookbook kit from givesimple.com ,or personalized spatulas from williamssonoma . Technorati Tags: shopping , gifts , bento box , cookbooks , spatulas , Mother’s Day
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Foodie Gifts for Mother’s Day
Charlie of Happy Threads is so clever! She has created a cross-stitch pillowtop design that mimics an iPhone screen — a must-have for technology lovers. Charlie says, The icons are intended to be stitched on black Aida fabric.
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Free chart: iPhone pillowtop
Over at the blog Tea Rose Home there is a wonderful tutorial for making this lovely spring wreath. It is made using leftovers from her past projects. Love that because I always have extra supplies and samples from past projects.
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Spring wreath tutorial using leftovers from past projects
Aliola has been posting a series of adorable cross-stitch animals. Browse through her blog to see all of them. Here are some direct links: Camel Whale Hippo, alligator, lion, hedgehog, snail, goose
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Free charts: Sweet animals from Aliola
Melissa Goodsell shares a tutorial over at QFD Creative for making a fabric draughts (checkers) set. The set includes a fabric board, fabric playing pieces, and a fabric storage bag. Go to the tutorial . [photo from QFD Creative ] Technorati Tags: sewing , tutorial , draughts , checkers , game , fabric
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Tutorial: Make a draughts or checkers game from fabric
‘Tis odd how timing works. I just recently posted on this site that creates video game inspired sweets, so I had video game sweets on my mind, when msn contacted me to include the fondant Pac-Man cookie toppers I had made last year in their latest slideshow: Game Food. CLICK HERE to see the full slideshow at msn.com , including a Katamari wedding cake,…
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Game Food (Geeks and Foodies Unite Once More)
The PGA Players As the PGA Tour’s 2010 season opened in Hawaii, the scope and breadth of the Tiger Woods scandal and its coverage began to take full flight. Accustomed to the sports media, the Tour players now faced the entertainment paparazzi, TMZ, Gawker, Deadspin, and their like, all-the-while unsure if … Read more: Tiger Woods: The PGA Players’ Reactions
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Tiger Woods: The PGA Players’ Reactions
The weekly Art Marketing Action podcast is an audio version of the newsletter/post of the same title. Read the newsletter here
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Art Marketing Action Podcast: Getting Friends on Your Newsletter List
Karl Jo Seilern and Anton Waldburg, managing partners of theblogpaper.co.uk , seem to be swimming against the currents in the ever turbulent waters that are the publishing industry.
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The Blogpaper, Moving Blogs Into Print
All these thoughts about a Zombie Apocalypse have got me thinking. Of course, the fact that the mini-series The Stand was on the other day might also have something to do with it. Plus I watched a teaser trailer for the up and coming Fallout game New Vegas. Ah, the end of the world. There’s nothing better to dedicate my thoughts to on a lazy day off than the end of the world.
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Top 10 Things You Would Need To Survive The Post Apocalypse