Blackout Poetry attempt After seeing examples of Austin Kleon’s work, I decided to make an attempt at blackout poetry. It looks pretty simple, you start with a newspaper article and then…
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Take Your Child to the Library Day Actually, most children’s librarians would elongate that to “Please take your child to the library every week or at least once a month…
Paper Crafts that work for Library classes When I need to pull together a crafts class for the library at the last minute with little money, I usually do paper crafts.…
Organizing a Creative Space There’s nothing like a domestic disaster to make you reorganize your stuff. We had a water heater fail and flood our basement, where my sewing supplies…
Making a Quote Print As a librarian, I am sometimes overwhelmed by discarded books, books that no one wants, that no one has looked at in more than five years.…
Organizing your crafts for the perpetually disorganized January, the fresh start, the new year, the time of getting your… stuff together. Because of a leak in our basement, I have…
I made Celtics and Yankee ornaments for my nephews. (Note, make absolutely sure you know what the recipient’s favorite teams really are!) Look up the logos. Usually teams have a…
Graham Cracker and Candy House I’ve been doing this craft for years and years. It started with a cute little one page idea in Family Circle (or was it Family…
Felt Crafting So I found a pile of white felt and gave myself a challenge- make five things with it. 1. Adipose. From Doctor Who. “The fat just walks away!”…
Get Input on Your Art “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” – Stephen King If you are creating for the joy of making things, then you don’t need this…
