June 30th, 2010

With a new baby in the family, I’ve been looking for quick, cute projects to make. I found this excellent tutorial from Green Mommy’s blog that shows how to create those sweet blankets with colorful ribbon tags that you may haveseen in the store. I’m still gathering the materials to make my own…I’ll try to [...]

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June 17th, 2010

Sketchbook by *B-AGT on deviantART Exploring DeviantArt.com again lately and came across another amazing drawing of something coming “to life” from a sketch. This is Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII and the details are incredible. Fantastic.

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Recently I needed to learn how to do an invisible ladder stitch to close some stuffed items I’m making. I found this excellent tutorial video that I thought I’d share. Hope you also find it useful.

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June 2nd, 2010

My niece Allyson’s latest pen and ink drawing is “Flora, the Woodland Fairy”. The brunette fairy is wearing green and black striped thigh-high stockings, a matching green short frilly skirt and brown fitted corset. Her wings resemble leaves and branches. We scanned the hand-drawn sketch, digitized it and then colored it using Illustrator. We’ve also [...]

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