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How to sew a button giveaway winner!!

We have a winner for “How to sew a button” by Erin Bried Giveaway!! Congratulations Erica!! Please contact me within three days for instructions on how to receive this fabulous book. And thank you ALL for entering this great giveaway. Come back and enter my next Giveaway: Soda Streams’ Soda machine.

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – copabananas

Here is Copabananas who recycles and repurposes like no one’s business. Read her short, to the point, no non-sense answers about recycling and repurposing. Cats or dogs? Kid. Star Wars or Sleepless in Seattle? Star Wars. Fruit or chocolate? Fruit. Favorite color? Orange lately. Favorite meal? Breakfast, toast is my favorite food. City break or weekend in the country? Camping. Soaps or documentaries? Documentaries, recently saw a great one about [...]

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San Jose Art Museum

I was in San Jose two weeks ago. The weather was gorgeous and the air was crisp. So I walked around downtown and accidentally stumbled upon an exhibit of one of my favorite photographers of all time, Ansel Adams, at the San Jose Art Museum. It was an exhibit of his early works and it was so poignant and as usual, thought provoking as he really brought out his environmental [...]

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Upcycled Journals by Ecokaren

I’ve been procrastinating listing items on Etsy in fear of….well, actually listing them. That is one part of selling on Etsy I dislike. I need a little elf that can take pictures, write descriptions, edit, upload, edit, tweak,……you get the picture……while I’m sleeping. Anyway, here is just a few of the items I’ve been able to upload on my shop yesterday. I decided to finally use up a pile of [...]

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How to join fabric yarns

You saw how easy it is to make fabric yarns yesterday. But what if you have fabric yarns that are too short to make anything? You can join the pieces to make longer yarns, of course. This is a silly simple method of joining them without tying. I cut these strips wide and I’m using two different colors to illustrate the method better here. 1. Take two strips of yarns [...]

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How to make fabric yarns

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You know one of my 2010 resolutions was to simplify my life. I finally cleaned out the closets and drawers and came up with four piles. 1) keep 2) dump 3) donate 4) re-purpose Ahhhh…it feels so good to de-clutter. One of the things I made with t-shirts from the “re-purpose” pile was fabric yarns. I always wondered how I could make yarns out of them – continuous yarns, that [...]

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Thought for the week

As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it. ~Dalai Lama~

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Fabulous Friday Featured Seller – Animalartista

Animalartista Cats or dogs? cats and dogs, love them both! Fruit or chocolate? fruit dipped in chocolate Favorite color? purple and red Favorite meal? just love eating in general City break or weekend in the country? weekend in the country or the beach Soaps or documentaries? documentaries Bath or shower? shower Dress or jeans? jeans definitely Your favorite material? cotton What brought you to Etsy? Tell us about your shop. [...]

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