Travel Turtle

Other than a giveaway sometime in the next three days, I’m not going to be blogging much this weekend. Unless I get ridiculously inspired to do so. I am really hoping to take advantage of this last long weekend of the summer. Although I live in Florida and the weather is warm more often than [...]

I first heard about what happened to Nie via a friend of hers whose blog I read in my google reader. Stephanie, who blogs at Nienie Dialogues, and her husband and his flight instructor were in a plane crash. The flight instructor, Doug Kinnear, passed away shortly after the accident. Stephanie and her husband suffered [...]

Ali Edwards has been answering a lot of questions from her readers. This link (if you scroll down) gives some great information if you are looking to start your own scrapbooking career. Her advice can be applied towards many creative careers.
Craft zine wrote about etsian’s CraftyHedgehog surprisingly adorable knitted dissected rat.
Over at decor8, guestblogger Jessica [...]

The random.org random integer generator selected comment #17, belonging to Jennae at Green Your Decor. She likes chocolate brown, turquoise and green. Fortunately, I do have a lot of brown fabric options.
Congrats Jennae, I’ll email you for mailing information.
Thank you to everyone who entered. I hope to do one more before the end of the [...]

Welcome to the second fabric scrap giveaway. Here’s the deal. I’ll be giving away about 14 pieces of fabric scraps. (Disclaimer: These are discontinued fabric samples from a local interior design shop. They range in sizes from placemat size to 4x placemat size. Some have grommets in them, some don’t.)
All you have to do is [...]

I found this site for the first time today, and I really love it. Sooo much fun. There’s a large group of artists whose work gets printed in limited editions of 300. Almost everything is gorgeous, a lot of it is my taste, and it’s a very affordable 29-59 euros. Here’s a sample of some [...]

I just love this poster:

This is just so cute. The poster is sold here, check it out!

I just read on craft magazine about burda style’s post about the Stichting Toekomst Rwanda. This charity is working towards teaching mothers and children in Rwanda about sewing. One thing they need is fabric. If you have some extra fabric laying around, which you probably do if you sew, please consider sending it to this [...]

I’ve made quite a few of collage and painted ACEOs back in the day. I decided to start making them again so yesterday I listed the first in a series of photo ACEOs that focus on Italy. Today, I want to share with my blog readers the felt ACEO I made last night

I don’t have [...]

Pulp Sushi’s blog had me wanting to make a new polyvore. Haven’t done one in a long time. I went off her theme of wishes and decided that I really wish for a trip to the beach. Not just any beach, but a beach on an island, that has a swimming pool. Because I don’t [...]