Bits and pieces

Part of the reason Our Crafty Empire exists is that my supply cupboards need emptying so I can keep buying new supplies.  I love fabric!  I love yarn!  I love threads!

A lifetime of crafting does lead to bits and pieces of things I keep meaning to use up.  Here's what I'm trying to use now.  It's some friendship band type cords that I tied ages ago, and some old jean zippers.

I think they are meant to be little pouches.  Here are the first ones.

Back from Art for Grabs

We're back from Art for Grabs and we had a great time.  It's a wonderful event, with wonderful organizers.  We met many, many lovely people and sold more than we expected.

I'm kicking myself for not taking any pictures of the booth.  Ah well, next time, I'll get the little lady to remind me.  Since I don't have booth pictures, I'll show bags, just for eye candy.  About half of these have gone to new owners.

Make more stuff...

The kiddos and I will be running a booth at Art for Grabs in a few days, and as usual when we run a booth, I'm trying to squeeze in more... more bags... more toys... just more...

Here's my table right now.  Those stacks are the result of experimenting with mono printing using a homemade gelli plate.  I'm hoping to turn them into square zippered bags.

Project bags

I managed to finish off some projects and as a result, I was shuffling around my supplies and restocking my various projects bags.  It lead to a little walk down memory lane for me.

I sew these little bags out of calico and get the kids to decorate them with Sharpies.  Here's my current project bag, stuffed full of yarn for a crochet project. The little lady did the drawing about 2 or 3 years ago.  It's a fairy princess with with flowers in the sky over her head and a diamond in the ground under her feet.

Here's one from the little guy at around the same time.  it's a spider, done in big whirly scribbles.

Here's another bag done by the little lady a few months ago.  Quite a different style isn't it?