It's time once again for the Happily Handmade Giveaway. What's this, you ask? HHG is a special promotion that independent businesses...

" Studio Friday, for me, is a network of Artist from all over the world. It's a fabulous way to communicate with and learn from art...

Stitch School has moved to it's very own space on the web! You'll now find the Straight Stitch post  here . Comments are now closed ...

“It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. An...

" I'm curious to see what is just outside everyone's studio. I face a wall so I don't have a view but I have the desert to...

I haven't been thrifting for a couple of weeks but I was out today and took the long way home past a new favorite place called Melben...

I found some cool ads for buttons in the vintage women's magazines I bought this summer. Here's a not very politically-correct one f...

Here’s something you don’t know about me. I used to want to be an interior designer. When I was a kid one of my favorite things to do was to...

" I was thinking, all the ladies work so hard in their studios: maybe it's time we all treat ourselves to a lovely bouquet of flowe...

You probably know Jenny Hart from her embroidery pattern business Sublime Stitching . But you may not know that she started out as a fine ar...

Just a brief update on this rainy Sunday. We've had a week of rainy weather here and today is no exception. Since I can't do anythin...

" There's such a diverse group here, with such different art forms, I think it would be interesting to see what tools others use on...

I have a very small collection of vintage valentines, and I found two more this past weekend at the Pocono Peddlar's Village Antique Mal...

One of my new favorite blogs is the purl bee and she has a great post today about vintage crochet pot holders. I don't collect them but...

"You've heard of 'writer's block'. Well as an artist, I sometimes suffer from "Artist's block". What is t...

Sadly, I'm missing Thrift Thursday this week. We have company coming for the weekend and I've been cleaning, making up the guest bed...

I picked up this book some time ago in the bargain bin at a local discount store. And didn’t really examine it closely until this weekend. W...

Wednesday nights episode of Project Runway left me feeling kind of queasy—such nastiness. And an obviously producer-chosen winner (again!)....

After the antique show last Saturday we stopped in the town of Cazenovia for a late lunch. Then we walked up and down the main street, brows...

I've had a couple of requests for closeups of the silver I bought at the show, so I took a few more pictures of it and the china it goes...