Rag Pets

Picking buttons

The Plush You trio is pretty much ready for their trip now. They still need to have a few little details, like picking buttons for a cardie, finished and to have their photos taken. I also need to design a label to hang around their neck, that'll have their name and story on it. I've been putting the label designing off a bit, since it's not one of my stronger skills. That and I have about zero ideas all together... or then it's just that I have too many ideas and not a clue where to start with them. I do need to get cracking with the label design & button picking though, I'd like to have the trio on their way to Seattle by the middle of this month.
I'm getting a little nervous and a lot excited as the time for the trio to go draws nearer!

P.S: I hope the picture above shows up OK, since for some reason TypePad and Flickr don't seem to be on speaking terms right now and I'm having a bit of bother getting the photo to show.

The Craft Corps

Vickie Howell is recruiting crafters of every kind to join the Craft Corps in an effort to show that crafts aren't just grannies knitting tea cozies anymore, but that the crafting community is filled to the brim with all sorts of creative folks now.
The deadline for sending in your stories is the 15^th of this month.

Here's my story:

"I learned how to sew before I even knew how to read. My grandmother, a multitalented crafter doing everything from weaving and dyeing wool with natural ingredients to painting glass and jewelry making when she was younger and who's still my biggest inspiration and hero, got tired of having to sew up toys for me and decided that it'd be much easier to teach me how to sew for myself instead. I remember many a happy summer spent in my gran's craft room, sewing up a storm while my brother and cousins frolicked out in the sun. I started off sewing by hand, then after I had gained some more sewing confidence, chugging away on gran's or dad's (my mum prefers to knit, while dad is a very skillful sewer) sewing machine. I got my very own sewing machine for Christmas when I was 14 and I still use that same machine to make soft toys and doll clothes, so nothing has really changed since I first learned how to sew!
Oh, and I learned how to read when I was 7."

Now lets hear yours!