Happy Valentines Day!!
Two halves of a whole? Just maybe.
Feb 13th, 2010
Feb 12th, 2010
Cutest Booth Uniforms EVER!!
I’ve made and sold plenty of craft aprons in my day, usually to a lone crafter, teacher, or gardener, but my favorite way to sell them is in multiples! Some of my favorite crafties use theirs in matching sets at craft fairs- a kind of adorable and useful uniform.
Tricia Barrett of Epiphany Crafts, used hers in her booth at CHA. a few weeks ago. She bought a trio of The Scissor Fetish Crafty Aprons and added her own special touch- so cute! The aqua gerber daisy plays off of the aqua scissors strap, which isn’t shown in the picture. Love the E for Epiphany Crafts!
Before Christmas, Brittany and Shaun of Tiny Whales asked me for customized variations of The Hansel Crafty Apron. Instead of the typical pocket set up they asked for 4 change pockets, a bill pocket, and a pen pocket. It came out super cute!! I might just make this a new apron option!
Other superstars sporting Polly Danger aprons? Team Paper Pastries, who wear lovely aprons in pink and brown (I keep forgetting to take pictures!) But you can see them in person at The Pink Parlour on March 14- right next to my booth!
If you are a crafty superstar who is in need of team aprons you send me an email (shop@pollydanger.com) or a convo through Etsy!
Some lovely aprons for your perusing pleasure-
The Garden Artist Crafty Apron- very romantic! 
The Crafty Forest- featuring indie fabric from Cicada Studio
Very Springy, no? Happy Friday!
Feb 5th, 2010
Polly + Polly + Kettle Cozy = ReadyMade Blog Post!!
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!!!
Jan 18th, 2010
A Gift from Charles Phoenix
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!
Jun 22nd, 2009
A little Capucine Monday!
Just in case you need a Monday morning pick-me-up, take 5 minutes and hear her Capucine’s story about about les hipopotames- one of my very favorite things EVER!
Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.
May 20th, 2009
Dreamy Decemberists- and Pin Cushion Rings!
Last night Eric and I went to see The Decemberists play at the Palladium. Holy sweet Mother. Who is this Shara Worden person? HOW do sounds to incredibly big come from that little person?! I think I am in love. If ever there was a magical connection between people, I swear this is it. Maybe she’ll join the band? It was a pretty damn rocking show. I was kind of nervous about this show, but it was completely mind-blowingly fantastic. I think a lot of the mind-blowing-ness came from Shara’s singing. Gave me goosebumps. Here’s a little taste, though in the Colbert Report show they seem to be holding back about 80% of the ROCK-ASS-ness. Still an awesome clip.
In case you don’t know who The Decemberists are, let me entice you with a photograph.
I picked this photo because I have the fan on the right. Squee!
What a lovely thing to do when you feel overwhelmed and exhausted, to go out and actually do something fun! You know how I knew it had been ages since I’d been anywhere? I felt completely awkward and socially inept around all those people! I seriously, seriously need to leave the house more often. We had a really fantastic time. I was nervous at first, because the very first time Eric and I saw The Decemberists was at the Hollywood Bowl, where they played with the L.A. Philharmonic. How can you beat that? Andrew Bird also played that night. So I was nervous about the show last night. But it was pretty damn cool. Pretty damn cool.
In crafty news, I finally put up some new goodies in the shop! Pin cushion rings for your pin protection pleasure! They’re lovely, and oval shaped, and tufted, and sweet. I’ll be putting up more stuff in the near-ish future, but I’m trying to stockpile some stuff for BAZAAR BIZARRE, which is in less than two weeks!
Aren’t they cute?
May 13th, 2009
More Fabric, and Studio Tidbits
Mrph. I’m mind-blowingly tired today. I’ve been sewing and ironing like crazy, and I hope it pays off in the form of hundreds of lovely aprons and goodies! Poor Eric got even less sleep last night- he stayed up late working and got locked out of the big house and I was so fast asleep that I didn’t hear him knocking on the window. I woke up in the middle of the night and he wasn’t there, so I went back to the studio and found him curled up in a little Eric-ball on our too-tiny sofa. You’ve seen the sofa- the one with the really high arm-rests. His feet were up on the arm rest and his head was all smooshed against the other arm rest.
But what I really wanted to share was this lovely photo of my Cicada Studio fabric that came in the mail a few days ago.
I’m ridiculously in love with it. YUM! I only bought a bit of each fabric in the collection, but if all goes well I’ll be buying lots more! Did I mention that one of my goals for Polly Danger is to use mostly fabrics designed by crafty-folks? I see it in the near future. I’m still playing around with which fabrics to pair this with, but it’s really exciting stuff.
Also, we’ve had a new houseguest. Meet Foxy.
She weighs about a quarter of a pound, and she gives fantastic kisses- don’t tell Petina! Foxy belongs to Grandma’s helper, Teresa, who has been telling us about Foxy for probably over a year. Finally last Friday we got to meet the mysterious Foxy, and she’s been coming over almost every day since. She is really one of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever snuggled. I love that furrowed brow! Petina isn’t too keen on Foxy coming in and wagging her big, poufy tail, but at least she’s not hiding under the sofa anymore. I know it’s crazy to want more dogs in our house, but even though it’s tons of work, it’s also incredibly fun to have so many dogs around. Foxy is only here for a few hours a day, which is perfect.
One last thing before I go eat a really late dinner. Here’s my working counter, with a fair amount of stuff on it. Plus some gorgeous red tulips that I gave myself for Mother’s Day- being a dog-mom counts, right?
I LOVE tulips.
