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Craftster Releases 2011 Indie Craft Trend Report

2011 Indie Craft Trend Report

Craftster has just released its 2011 Indie Craft Trend Report, using anecdotal stories from its community of 225,000 crafters and data from [...]

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Retro Holiday Decoration Inspiration

Book Cover: Better Homes and Gardens (1967)

One of my favourite thrift store finds of all time is a 1967 Better Homes and Gardens: Treasury of Christmas Ideas book with tons of retro holiday inspiration. To get  you in the mood for tonight’s Craft-mas installment in [...]

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DIY Batik Chic Links and Resources

So here’s the last of four posts related to batik, and a few of the resources we checked out for our DIY batik chic picnic:

A great video on how to create batik artwork from House & Home

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british textiles stamp – paul nash, originally uploaded by maraid.

Continuing from the last post, here are more postage stamp design resources found during [...]

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Around the (Crafty) World: New York City and Brooklyn

Next up on our around the world segment is New York City and Brooklyn. Spins & Needles visited in September 2007 to check out the crafty scene and host a [...]

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National Film Board posts film archives online

A couple weeks ago the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) launched the first of its films to be digitized and made available free online.

Today I finally checked out the website and was amazed at the number and diversity of the films – there are currently 700 films [...]

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