Feb 6th, 2010
I’m feeling kind of sickie today, but I’ve got myself all snuggled up in blankies on the bed, which is covered in puppies. This makes me happy. Know what else makes me happy? My mom made heart-shaped biscuits this morning. So I couldn’t resist the urge (sick or not) to slice and jam them before shoving a few in my sickie face. YUM!
Also making me happy this morning is sweet and lovely Jenny from Robots and Teapots, who is not only a wonderful customer but an Etsy seller, and blogged about the Mini Wallet I made for her! And she’s hosting a GIVEAWAY!! So go take a look at her mini wallet and enter her giveaway!!!
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Feb 5th, 2010
I’m sure I’ve told you all about The Polly Up North- Miss Polly Conway, of Pollyanna Cowgirl Designs. Well in case you didn’t know, this bubbly, fun-loving super craftstress is now in charge of writing Make Nice, the ReadyMade craft blog. And she’s posted about my Kettle Cozy Tutorial!! I LOVE that she refers to me as “Other Polly”. I know so few Pollies (only one actually) that it gives me warm fuzzies to be called that. Go read the post but be sure to check out Bay Area Polly’s other fun and easy crafty posts!
Happy Friday!!!
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Feb 4th, 2010
Just got an Etsy Success email and found Eric’s “Thinking of You” robot binary card staring back at me!!! EEEEeeeeeh! Yay Eric!
Click HERE to see the above adorable binary-ness!
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Feb 3rd, 2010
See those tabs in the upper-right hand corner of my blog? Well, two of those little guys used to be crossed out. But notice that now they are not! That means that my “about” and “tutorials” are open for viewing! And whatsmore there’s actually a tutorial in the tutorials section!!
Here’s how this is going to work- I’ll be sending out a tutorial on the 15th of every month via the Polly Danger Newsletter (better go sign up now!) and eventually those lovely little tutorials will end up on the blog in the Tutorials section! If you’re signed up for the newsletter then you’ve already seen this tutorial! Whee!!
The first tutorial posted is the oh-so-sugary-sweet Oven Lovin’ Mitt. It’s the oven mitt for lovers!
Now just click on the Tutorials tab for instructions and a template!!!
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Feb 1st, 2010
Oh how I love me some tea in the afternoon . . . but I don’t love burning my hand on the melted handle. Yuck. The handle has a tendency to fall sideways and the plastic has been melting off bit by bit. And every so often I or a loved one gets burnt. So finally I decided to do something about it. I took twenty minutes and made this oh-so-adorable handle cozy!
If you want to make your own just knit a 5″ x 3″ swatch in any pattern you’d like (I used stockinette with the 2 stitches on either end purled on the RS and knit on the WS). Once you’ve woven in the ends and blocked it you can add the buttons. I used very little buttons so that I wouldn’t have to worry about making button holes. Now a few warnings **MAKE SURE YOU USE A NATURAL FIBER YARN and 100% cotton thread for the buttons- no polyester!! Since your cozy is going to get quite hot you don’t want any melting fabric or thread- what a mess!
So cute!
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