Every December I highlight my five favorite things in my studio. Sometimes they are recent purchases; some are tools I’ve had for years.
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2022 My Favorite Things
Looking back this year, I wanted to again share with you five of my favorite things I’ve been using in my studio. A couple are repeats from previous years. Clover Hot Ruler and the Oliso M2 Mini Project Iron I love this little ruler. I used it when I was making some grocery totes this…
Read MoreMy 5 Favorite Creative Supplies
I’ve been thinking a lot about 2017 and what direction I want to take. That brought me to my five favorite creative supplies that help me on this colorful journey. It’s really hard to narrow the list to just five, but here is what I came up with: I complain about my old Elna, but…
Read MoreMy Five Favorite Things
When I started thinking about this post I had a hard time coming up with just five of my favorite things. But the more I thought about it, I narrowed it down to those items that have really helped me to be creative. So let’s get started. 1. Silhouette Portrait I absolutely love this machine.…
Read MoreMore Stencil Making
Since I bought my new gadget, The Silhouette Portrait, I have been in the stencil-making mode. Here is my new design on fabric. In this post I’m going to take you through my process from a photograph to my finished stenciled fabric. A couple years ago, my friend Amy and I took a day and…
Read MoreSwapping and Thrifting
Yesterday I received in the mail this wonderful package of soaps from Wendy Lorimer of Lorimers’ Soap in Scotland. Wendy had emailed me about my marbled fabric. Since I also love to not only make soap but to try others, we set up a swap. I sent her two of my marbled pieces for her…
Read MoreDrying & Using Tomatoes
Over the past five years here at Happy Acres we’ve found that Juliets are one of our favorite tomatoes to dry. They are good fresh (Dave made some killer salsa the other day with them), but drying really brings out the flavor. So last week I harvested almost 10 pounds from our four plants. This…
Read MorePizzelle – Oh my!
My love affair with this cookie started a year or so ago when I bought this tin. I never really thought about making them. We liked them so much that we hopped online and bought several tins. And we ate them all up. Of course, I saved the tins. Then somewhere on the web I…
Read MoreSummer Sketching
Last night, after a busy day here at Happy Acres, I sat and played a little bit with my sketchbook. I used some of the new Gelly Roll Metallics I won recently. I also used some of my favorite markers. They don’t seem to be “in” markers, but I really love them. It seems like…
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