Story Lady's Crafts » Uncategorized http://storyladyblog.com/crafts ...I'm not a proficient. I'm just an addict. Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:01:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Hot Pad Love http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?p=120 http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?p=120#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:01:02 +0000 http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?p=120 Continue reading →]]> I have a slight infatuation with hot pads.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a total hoarder… I’m a very selective hoarder, but it probably doesn’t help that I love making them as much as I love buying them.
I love scouring antique shops and finding them priced RIDICULOUSLY low ($2? Doesn’t even cover the cost of the yarn, even if it was made in 1950).

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The bright colors just make me so happy, but I felt silly leaving them all piled up in a wire basket in my room… so I hammered some needles into my wall (no measuring, of course, because then it would look like it made some kind of sense and it absolutely does not) and started hanging.
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Now they are all over my wall, and I couldn’t love it more! I keep finding myself on Pinterest finding more inspiration (as if I need more) (but I totally do) (is this how shoe addicts feel?):

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scrappy potholders for teacher gifts

via Blooming Poppies

DIY Recipe Potholders

via My So Called Crafty Life

Crochet Hot Pad - Cotton - Yellow, Tangerine, Red - Fruit

via Made By Hand

I just can’t get enough.  Are there groups for nerds like me?  Recovery groups?  With people under the age of 80?

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]]> http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?feed=rss2&p=120 0 Garden Marks http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?p=51 http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?p=51#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 17:26:16 +0000 http://storyladyblog.com/crafts/?p=51 Continue reading →]]> This is my practical non-nonsense garden marker.Photobucket
I accidentally tucked the last letter of “basil” in the dirt. Anyway, that marker was tough and all, but it wasn’t purdy.
Yesterday I spent most of the day with my sister, and we joked about how much women love pretty things.
“We’re like birds,” I said, “We flit around until we see something shiny and we go nuts for it, like… ‘oooh! I need that for my nest!’”
Well, I needed these for my nest…
I bought a spoon at Savers for 25 cents, and then I hammered it mostly flat (with the help of my hubbers because when there’s bustin’ up going on, you just can’t keep boys away).
Then I steel stamped letters into it and filled the stamps in with black permanent marker. Personally, I like the letters to look a little… terrible. It gives them a sort of kitschy look.
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A week from today, I’ll be pounding out spoons with my Beehives, and we’ll be stamping their names into them for them to put into the potted plants we’re going to put together.
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I love cherry fabric. And red gingham fabric. And the word “kitschy.”
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Spoon stamping really has endless possibilities. I just threw my spoon craft together in about 15 minutes. When I get more time, I’ll do something really amazing.

Like THIS.

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