With back to school week around the corner (for some it may have started already), I thought I’d take a trip [...]
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Complex Geometries’ Split Square dress features a slight cowl that can be worn as a sleeve or neckline and a polished silk chiffon lining that can be worn on the outside Today’s Globe and Mail featured [...] Continue reading The Infinity Dress and Beyond
Are aprons back? Check out my take in last Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen (and other Canadian city newspapers). I have a full-length Milk (does a body good) apron picked up at a garage sale [...] Continue reading Mad About Aprons Who doesn’t love Alice in Wonderland? We have been wanting to incorporate this into a Spins & Needles event for a couple years now and looking for lots of ways to do it. We finally felt it would be right for July with our very first outdoor party at [...] Continue reading Photo Inspiration: Alice in Wonderland
With every Spins & Needles comes the research for potential projects. So with this month’s installment at the Canadian Museum of Civilization being associated with Britain’s royal stamp collection [...] Continue reading Project Inspiration: Make Your Own (Legal) Postage Stamps
Inspired by those Keep Calm and Carry on posters that are popping up in so many house tours, I thought it would be neat to do a varation using some of the Spins & Needles slogans. Particularly since the [...] Continue reading Keep Crafty and Carry On
Check out these superfun Gingerbread Punks - almost too fun to eat! The recipe for these guys can be found on Post Punk Kitchen. It definitely is inspiring me to [...] Continue reading How to Make Your Own Gingerbread Punk Cookies Tomorrow I’ll be helping out with a tie-dye session at the CIC (Catholic Immigration Centre) here in Ottawa. We’ll be making tie-dye team shirts for their Community Soccer Cup tournament. I haven’t tie-dyed in a while, so I’m really looking forward to it! It’ll be another great technique to [...] Continue reading Trendspotting and Tutorials: Tie-Dye Duds
I love Scrabble and I know there’s a Lack table around here somewhere….This Scrabble table from Ikea Hacker is definitely a project to work on once we get a new apartment. It seems like everyone is looking for a piece of escapism these days. Perhaps that’s why the idea of outer space is frequently popping up! We’re seeing integalactic planetary everywhere! From last month’s Spins & Needles Outer Space installment that featured DJ beats + DIY projects that were outta [...] Continue reading Trendspotting: Intergalactic Planetary |
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