Cathie Filian:
Cathie is holding a charity dog costume & book auction. All the costumes were handmade by Cathie and featured in her book Bow Wow WOW! The proceeds benifit the Humane Society.

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world
Craftside has tutorials on how to make two punk rock scarves one with yarn and one with fabric, info on participating in the Good Mail Day Challenge, One Person’s Oddity and a Polaroid Postcard design, a bunch of mixed element jewelry and tips on laying a pattern out on plaid fabric.
Crafty Princess Diaries
Tammy talks about …read more

About Family Crafts:
Find out how to can make a story sack for the book, and soon to be movie, Cloudy With a Change of Meatballs.

Aileen’s Musings
Aileen’s created a quirky copper bird pin,,,,stop by and check it.
Alexa Westerfield a.k.a. Swelldesigner
Alexa revisits and reconnects with a craft from her childhood
Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world
Craftside has a sneak peek into the soon to be released book; Who’s Your Dada? Redefining The Doll Through Mixed Media, free graphics of good angel/bad angel birds with a tutorial for using them as T-shirt iron-ons, how-to’s …read more

Gifts with Humanity is a site that belongs to the Fair Trade Federation. Members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide. So you can feel good about purchasing artisan-made pieces from this site.
I found lots of clever items in the Home Decor section, including the wonderful tin lion shown below.  This piece comes from Zimbabwe, where there are no lions.  Other gift categories include wearables, stationery, dining, and instruments.

Another item that really caught my eye was found in the stationery section. I think these notebooks, made from handmade paper …read more

Then a moment comes when every part has found its definite relationship and from then on it would be impossible for me to add a stroke to my picture without having to paint it all over again.
~Henri Matisse

To me a work is finished when all parts involved communicate themselves, so that they don’t need me.
~Hans Hoffman

How do I know when a work is finished? When it has taken away from me everything I have to give. When it has become stronger than myself. I become the empty one and it becomes the full one. When I am weak …read more

The Impatient Crafter:
Madge transforms a Kraft paper lampshade from Target into a sophisticated accent piece for a teen’s room in this post for I Love to Create.

About Family Crafts
Do you paper mache? Share your projects and stories!
Aileen’s Musings
This week Aileen’s been busy altering cabinet cards. Check out her newest funky cabinet cards and download more freebie images for you to alter yourself.
Cathie Filian
Cathie and Steve spoof their love of Mod Podge in their latest video.
Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world
Craftside has a fun mixed-media cupcake jar topper …read more

The Artful Crafter:
Eileen blogs about learning photography – one frame at a time.

The Crochet Dude
Drew is giving away all his latest designs that are included in his new line of patterns that just launched nationwide! To enter you just leave a comment on his blog!
The Impatient Crafter
Make a super cute pair of flip flops with your kid or teen for your end of summer vacation! Madge shares the 411 in this post for I Love to Create
About Family Crafts
Hurry on over and submit your photos and ideas! Sherri is now accepting Halloween …read more

Tina, lucky number 8, is the winner of the wonderful new book Fabricate!  Tina wrote:
Fabric… it is an addiction and I have the most wonderful ideas when I buy it, I just have trouble actually cutting into it! you would think the world will end if I make a mistake, so I am happy to just have the fabric right now. It is starting to get a little difficult to store it all, time to actually MAKE things with it – hope this book can push me past buying and into creating!
going to check it out now…

David Roy creates limited edition wooden kinetic sculptures that are seen throughout New England and online on David’s site, Wood That Works.   David also has youtube videos of some of his work, like the one below.  Creating these modern masterpieces since 1975, David’s studio is located in Connecticut, and while he might not always be available for studio visits, he does encourage his fans to email him and schedule a visit if possible.
I would love to have a guided tour of these works.  I stumbled upon my first look at them live in a small art gallery in Ithaca, New …read more

Stefanie Girard’s Sweater Surgery:
The cutting goes high-tech by using a Cricut Die Cutting machine to make cool Locked & Loaded fabric patches that go great with a scissor image to make a rockin’ jacket.

The Artful Crafter
Don’t toss useful items just because they don’t match. Look at what Eileen did with some freebie ceramic canisters and an old wooden cheese tray.
The Crochet Dude
Drew announces the winner of his Simplicity Rotary Cutting Maching giveaway and shares some cool vacation photos from New Mexico & Colorado!
About Family Crafts
If you are trying to find a unique …read more

Pull out your fabric stash and get ready to rock and roll!
I’ve got a copy of Interweave Press’s new fabric arts book to give away! Fabricate: 17 innovative sewing projects that make fabric the star can be yours just for leaving a comment below. Tell me what the last fabric project you did was, or what you’d like it to be if you’ve never worked with fabric before. Next Tuesday, I’ll randomly choose a winner from the comments list. You can read a review of Fabricate here.
FREE STUFF ALERT***FREE STUFF ALERT!!