Archive for June 2013

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Raise your hand if you pay attention to the Tour de France. No? Me neither, though I do love chocolate croissants and I would enjoy a tour o...

Yesterday I wrote about my ongoing experiments with laser transfer foil and an iron. Results were hit or miss. A lot of miss, actually. I...

I wrote awhile back about trying to iron metallic foil onto laser-printed paper. See this post and this post for my first attempts and how...

Justina Yang of Fiber Lab has invented a papercraft bow tie and made the template available as a PDF. I looooove it. See her post here to ...

I spent Saturday afternoon at the Etsy pop-up shop in the Lincoln Park West Elm . The store looked fantastic — West Elm did a beautiful job...

Want to see something cool? Blog reader Helen wrote to tell me that after my posts about getting and using a Silhouette paper cutting machi...

Bella Bark & Meow enlisted me to whip up some geometric patterns for their latest dog collars and leashes. My favorites are the bow tie...

Need something to do on Saturday afternoon? Come mingle with me and local Etsy artists selling their goods at West Elm in Chicago. This pop...

I've made another Inkodye tutorial, this time posted on the Etsy blog. Click here to read about this fancy lady pouch project.

I have a bit of news. We'll be leaving Chicago and moving to the Cincinnati area in mid-July! Goodbye, lovely 1920s condo building. I...

It's Friday. I think we'll all need a coffee break in a little while, don't you? And why not extend that directly into happy hou...

I made this guy by following a video by Leyla Torres, my favorite origami demonstrator. Forget yoga— if you ever feel stressed out, just pu...

I played around some more with Inkodye , the permanent, water-based dye that develops its color in sunlight. After making easy shadow prints...

Vectorian is a great resource for graphic designers, featuring beautifully digitized vintage ornaments, illustrations, and frames. Best of ...

Design in a Nutshell is an entertaining series of short videos explaining design movements from the last 200 years. The animations are char...

In just a couple minutes you can fold an easy double-pyramid stand for business cards or phones. Check out the video tutorial from Leyla Tor...