Teacher gifts are well underway. These travel tissue holders are a pleasure to make – a great place for those bits of lovely fabric and trim that are too small for much else.  Check out Cassi’s awesome tutorial if you’d like to make some yourself.  My only edit was to trace her pattern onto freezer… 

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Gift crafting is in full force here now.  First, for my nearly two-year-old niece, Emerson, a package of homemade playdough. This will be accompanied by lots of cookie cutters and a rolling pin and hair maker.  Here is the playdough recipe, in case you'd like to make some.  It lasts for a long long time… 

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I am trying to buy handmade this holiday. I took the pledge and I’m really trying to give it a go.  This means lots of shopping on Etsy (thank god for Etsy!) and hopefully even more at the Boston  Bizarre Bazaar on December 9, and perhaps even a visit to Magpie. It also means lots… 

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I have been working on an owl for over a week and a half.  He is a great-horned owl inspired by this drawing in Sibley’s. Here is my initial sketch.  I drew the face mask first.  I think that in all softie making, and perhaps especially in soft sculpture, the eyes either make or break… 

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We went to the opening of "Beyond the Book" at the Honan-Allston branch of the Boston Public Library today. The opening was from 12-2 and I would have posted about it in advance, but I somehow missed the information about it until the day before.  Here I am with a grumpy-looking Stella in front of… 

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These three elephants, along with two more yet to be made, will go to Pajama Squid, a new children’s store opening up in Takoma Park, Maryland, in March.  (See photos of each one individually here.) I grew up in Potomac, Maryland, and it is nice to have a little representation there.  I have some more… 

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Monday was the last day at the farm.  It was so sad!  I can’t tell you how much we have enjoyed having a CSA at Land’s Sake in Weston this summer.  I feel so much more in touch with what can be grown in New England successfully, with what produce are actually in season as… 

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11" x 14" assemblage soft sculpture bird with wire legs wrapped in floral tape and painted gold, flour sack, paper ephemera, acrylic paint, vintage wooden spool, red leather I named this piece "The Tailor" at the suggest of Mijk. Thanks! I got some gold paint for the birds legs and they are so pretty now. … 

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I just got word late this afternoon that these three bird collages have been accepted into a juried show, "Beyond the Book: 2nd Annual Book Arts and Collage Exhibit," that will be going up at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library.   The show opens November 14 and runs through January 5.  I’m really… 

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We had the best fall weather for Halloween this year – warm enough to go trick-or-treating without a coat over your costume, but still fall-like.  We went to a little Halloween party at Tot Time at the Recreation Center in the morning and then off to the neighborhood block party and parade in the afternoon. … 

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