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Convention prep – buttons and bag inserts

It’s one of those little those little truths in life: there are never quite enough pockets. Whether in bags, backpacks, pants or other clothing articles, there are just never quite enough pockets not to be shuffling your fingers around the bottom of your bag, looking for whatever small item has gotten lost in the depths. It’s bad […]

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big storms, big trucks, and big tank tops transformed into vests

We had a thunderstorm this July! And then we had another small one just this week. Two in one year – the apocalypse is surely on its way. See, I live on the west coast of Canada, where the weather almost never threatens to kill you or does anything terribly interesting at all, really. The […]

folded ribbon bows – we’ve got spirit, yes we do!

Today’s post comes to you at the request of Twitterer @safaiagem. Team spirit has never been my strong suit. In high school I went to our football games (the largest of our school’s social gatherings) mainly in an attempt to brush elbows with that cute guy I was crushing obsessively on. But when I did show […]

button jewelry

Crafting isn’t always about making nice things from the ground up. Sometimes it’s simply about finding already-nice things and putting them to nice, new use. Take buttons. They’re cute (as a button, of course), lightweight, colourful and come with tidy little holes for attaching them to stuff. They’re also small, which means you can have […]