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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…

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Embroidery and Redwork artistry I sat down with Tisha Dolton, also known as Aprilsongstress, about her art of choice, embroidery.  She does redwork, portraits, and recently did Doctors from Doctor…

textile arts

I switched from having my books individually uploaded to different sites to using Smashwords, an ebook distributor that translates my files into multiple formats.  You can download a 10% sample…

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writing

Why write a novel? National Novel Writing Month starts today.  This is where crazy people from all around the world write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.  There’s something…

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Book of Librarian Crafts I’m starting a new project, with the working title of “Librarian Crafts.” My idea is to have sections with different categories: pre-school story-time crafts school age crafts…

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I made a hood out of a black t-shirt for my evil queen costume.  I used a hoodie to estimate the curve, cutting out two  pieces.  The bottom of the…

textile arts

The process and not the product You worked really hard on something and it bombed. no one likes the dinner you made (including yourself) you sewed an outfit and it…

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