October 28, 2008We are happy to announce that our Advent Calendar class to be held on November 15th is full! This is our first mama class to fill up and we are quite excited about it. Our Advent calendars can be designed to countdown to Christmas, Solstice, New Year’s Eve or whatever day you want to count [...]
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October 23, 2008The Maker Faire is over and 2 days later we are finally recovering. It was fantastic and tiring and creative and inspiring and confusing and amazing and conjured up all kinds of ideas and feelings. We saw hundreds of people come through the Faire and through the Swap-o-rama-rama tent. There was an incredible array of [...]
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October 17, 2008So we took a few old sheets, (carefully selected from the thrift store of course) some old worn out pants, some tossed off burnt orange University of Texas Theater curtains, various scraps and cut-offs from Kathie’s myriad Ramonsterwear projects, and even a few old upholstery sample books and look at what these girls whipped up in [...]
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October 13, 2008So, the Maker Faire is coming back to Austin this coming weekend. Anyone who attended last year’s big event will surely be back there again this year. It was a spectacular display of makers and crafters and all things creative, innovative and handmade. There was a giant mousetrap. I mean giant. That shipped all the [...]
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October 6, 2008This is another collaborative project of Kathie’s – a children’s book with our dear friend Shannon – about two little girls who have to move away from each other. They create a cloth doll to send back and forth that each one embellishes a little with buttons and embroidery and other found crafty obthen sends to [...]
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October 4, 2008I’ve been thinking lately about all our Future Craft Materials and about keeping an eye on the prize of upcycling and recrafting materials for our Craft classes. Here’s a partial list of just a few of the materials we’ve used in the past few weeks for our Lunch Kit and a few other projects…
-coffee bags, [...]
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