Feb 17th, 2010
You kids might not know this, but my adorable striped photo backdrop has been in bad shape lately. I think all the moving around and taking out and setting up and putting away scratched it up beyond hope. So I’ve been experimenting with new backdrops, but they either weren’t cute enough, or they weren’t “Polly Danger” enough. But I finally found just the right look.
Take a gander!
You can find this lovely coin/card pouch HERE.
Delicious round business cards courtesy Jumping Fences Design, San Francisco.
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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 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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Jan 20th, 2010
I have a super exciting something to share! The internet has another awesome crafter- let’s give a big crafty welcome to Miss Ivy Jewelry! My mom’s website is up and running!!! My fantastically crafty mom has been making her bohemian chic jewelry for quite a while now, mostly selling to friends and in trunk shows but after much hemming and hawing she got techie on us and got this lovely, lovely website! I’m so proud of her I can’t even explain it. She is the reason I’m crafty and it’s really beautiful to see her growing as a designer and business woman. Go mom!
Miss Ivy not only makes awesome gypsy-esque bracelets and earrings, but she does fantastic custom work as well! Stop by and take a gander!
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Jan 18th, 2010
NUM num Num! The other day my lovey dovey husband texted me with a very casual, “Hey Charles Phoenix can’t keep these slide cabinets, do you want them?” Which part of this sentence is more awesome- getting a couple of beautiful handmade cabinets for free or getting them from someone as incredibly badass as Charles Phoenix?! Even before I saw them I wanted them, though naturally once I saw them they made me drool just a bit. They were made by a pilot to house his impressive collection of slides he’d taken over the years, and they’re just perfect for organizing ribbon and rickrack and millinery bits! He also sent me 3 gorgeous vintage travel case which probably housed some kind of projection equipment or maybe more slides. Talk about a lucky day!
They’re really nicely put together, with sliding doors and tidy little cubbies.
Once the cabinets got home I had the tedious and kinda sad job of removing the sticker labels, but I had to photograph them first. I mean this must have been quite the collection. There are a couple of labels titled, “Water- not ocean” and “Water- ocean”. Other great labels were “Visual Delights” and “Sky”. I would have loved to look through them- lucky Charles!
Now that they’re de-labeled (it took 3 hours and quite a bit of elbow grease to do just one of the two cabinets) I get to make them mine! My plan is to stack them, screw them together, and add some molding and table legs to the bottom.
I will certainly post photos as soon as my project is complete!
THANK YOU CHARLES PHOENIX – YOU ROCK!
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Jan 11th, 2010
An accident involving Polly’s fingers!!! NO! Will she ever be able to sew again? Remains to be seen, but I’m typing right now so I’m sure I can still sew. Yesterday the seams in the rolling garage door squashed two of my fingers. I couldn’t even extract them right away. Blinding pain. You don’t even know. My fingers are bruised on both sides- have you ever seen a bruised fingertip?! I didn’t know you could get bruises on your fingertips. I don’t know that I’ve ever screamed that loud. Luckily nothing is broken, but holy moly did it hurt. My mom offered me some SERIOUS meds which I at first turned down, but after a while the the pain made the potential hallucinations seem harmless.
In the end I just said a lot of really bad words and took some Advil. And eventually my fingers went numb. By now they’re just numb, with extremely piercing pain when I hit them on things. It’s part of my self imposed physical therapy to type.
Even the inside of my fingers are bruised. It ain’t pretty. Ugh. I’d post photos but I only put pretty things on this blog.
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Jan 5th, 2010
Okay, so I don’t really like “before” photos because they’re just not pretty. But were I to take a before picture of my studio it would be like this: alken;aoiuhghbia;uvnwrbv;anerogiaerignabsetlughagnvk dzbunsitbho;aeirgjna;oirjgioa;rgha;eoit;hga;lkjnv;lagijraighjroiahg;aekrgnal;kgj- but in stuff.
Stuff on the floor, stuff on the desk, on the cutting table, on top of my beloved sewing machine, stuff shoved into bags, stuff with hints of mildew, stuff with spiders (BIG spiders) hiding in the folds. Just not nice. So please understand that this makeover is taking me a while! But I’ve made some serious progress which I’ll be posting for your vicarious-organizing pleasure.
First up is my buttons N fixin’s shelving. This lovely little cabinet was once a spice cabinet from Goodwill- it came complete with an artichoke illustration on the door and 36 clean and empty jars! I removed the door and painted the insides crisp white, filled some window tins with buttons and some jars with other notions and voila- a buttons n fixin’s shelving unit. It’s EVER so helpful to have what I need close at hand instead of where it was- and I honestly can’t remember where any of this stuff was.
Originally I tried to get the buttons themselves into the jars, but the mouths of the jars were too small to fit some of the larger buttons. So I used some window tins, which had the handy ability to fit my vintage buttons still on their cards! And the extras go on display.
Oooh, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll remember to tell and show you the excellent freebie I got when I went to pick up my library book today! It’s called “Sewing Made Easy”, published 1952, my friends. A true gem.
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