I missed last week, by accident. Sorry....sickness intervened, and it just disappeared in the night from my mental to-do list.
:: Mollie Makes magazine and blog. I had seen mention of this relatively new UK crafty magazine on blogs, but forgot all about it until I saw it on the newsstands when I was in England last Fall. Naturally I picked one up...and loved it. I was happy to rediscover it in Chapter's last week....and even happier when I read inside that there is a digital version available for a fraction of the price of the hardcopy The magazine sells for £4.99 in the UK (equals approx $7.50Cdn) ...but sells $13.75 at Chapters. A digital subscription is just 64.99 for 13 issues (less than the price of 5 hardcopy issues at Chapters)
:: The urge to sew with felted sweaters continues, thanks to Belle Armoire magazine and discovering Katwise's wonderful many-sweater coats. Now I don't think I would have the gumption to wear an exact replica....but I can dream.....and create my own cardi.
:: Speaking of sewing with felted sweaters...check out these baby blankets and this bigger blanket. Love!
:: One of these days I want to learn how to crochet.....and then I want to play with colour, like Eclectic Gipsyland and Ceitaspasaule and many others....
:: I've been periodically checking out Pinterest....and tried to join, but my invitation didn't work (I think it's because I didn't have FB, and the delay - while I set up a special FB just for it - caused a problem....but that's a whole other story). Definitely lots of eye candy on there, but it's easy to get overstimulated and feel like everyone else is so perfect. In my research, though, I discovered something quite cool for other bloggers....Did you know that you can see what images people are pulling off/pinning to, from your blog? Copy and paste the following into your browser:
http://pinterest.com/source/fisheyerugs.blogspot.com/
(of course you need to remove my blog name and add your own. It will also work for other blog platforms and some websites, too .....)
I'm on Pinterest, just recently. I got an invitation form a quilter as I'd heard that the ones from the Pinterest people take forever. I reluctantly joined Twitter...I was on FB last year and hated it and it took forever to get off it. I looked at my T account the other day and nothing is going on - good! It is a beautiful idea and looks like the most perfect scrapbooks to me. I don't really have the hang of it - can't quite figure out how to see other peoples' stuff, but I spend a little time on it each day. I spend A LOT of time reading blogs!!! ;-D
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip about checking out what photos people are taking from my blog. I'm going to check it out. JB
ReplyDeleteAh, thanks Jen for putting links to my felted wool blankets. I'm really in love with making these. I like the idea of repurposing cast-off sweaters, but feel compelled to make them in a pattern rather than random pieces. Much like your beautiful rugs and purses, if they were just a mash up of color, with no pattern, they wouldn't be so wonderful.
ReplyDeleteHi Jen hope you are well just taking a peep at your blog its fun to catch up .... I tried to join pinterest too and nothing happened I tried a couple of times so might try again. When you finally learn to crochet these too girls do great stuff they are fab blogs Lucy at Attic 24 and Alice with crochet with Raymond they are fun...go to my blog www.makingrugs.blogspot.com and click on crochet you will be able to go straight to their website. Happy hooking Cilla
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