Sharing List #1 09-05-08

If you are in Portland or anywhere near there.. Kurt Halsey has a show at Moshi Moshi Sept 4-30.. spoiler alert for photos (or for those like me who can't get to the real show)

Mollie has the cutest embroidery patterns.. I own both of her Baking Sets, the Honey one, and got the "I've Got a Notion" when it was free. Her blog is always a mixture of cooking, family, life, and of course her beautiful designs/products. :) Next on my list is the Recyclers and the Cinema Snacks patterns... but I have a restraining order on myself right now since I've gotten so much stuff this summer and I need to use it/sell stuff on etsy/something.. :) I was honored to share her blog over at Pimp Stitch and plus I got a free Pimp Stitch pattern of my choice for PS choosing her blog for their blogroll. :)

Feeling Stitchy (http://www.feelingstitchy.com), Whip Up (http://whipup.net/), Craft (http://blog.craftzine.com/) are all places I need to spend more time.. and I could read and reread Elsie's blog (Flickr account, etsy shop, her scrapbook supplies in stores, etc) all day long... http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/ ...

Links to remember:
http://www.urbanthreads.com/pages?id=54 Tutorial: Stuffies by Urban Threads
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/garden/04craft.html?ex=1378353600&en=fa07041a19e95a0d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink New York Times article 9/3/08
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/09/skateboard_staircase.html from one of the MAKE magazine guys, a Staircase made out of skateboards. Awesome.
http://lifelovepaper.typepad.com/just_a_girl_who_likes_pap/2008/09/thanks.html photo spread, especially handwritten "soul is freedom, love is power, hope is love, dreams are revolutions..."
http://ebscrafts.blogspot.com/2008/09/swap-love-part-1.html pretty stitchery + close up of weeks dye works floss

Blogs to add:
http://kollaj.typepad.com/
http://thenewnew.blogspot.com/
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/blog
http://blog.craftzine.com/
http://obsessiveconsumption.typepad.com/
http://www.cupcakesforclara.typepad.com/
http://villiku-atcs.blogspot.com/ and http://www.craftpudding.com/
http://stitchindye.blogspot.com/

New blogs for me to check out:
Stitch and Destroy http://stitchanddestroy.blogspot.com/
Aesthetic Outburst http://www.aestheticoutburst.blogspot.com/
http://lovarevolutionary.blogspot.com/
http://fluffyland.com/blog/
http://buttonsmagee.typepad.com/
http://kupkup-land.blogspot.com/

welcome to me :)

Hey everyone...

It seems the more I get into the craft world online there are flickr groups, blogs, etsy pages, business websites, personal websites, commercial shops, all kinds of things and people and resources. :)

I am trying to do my best to remedy my forgetfulness and link all the craftiness/artiness on this site for my access, and to share with others as a well.

(below will be edited whenever I feel like..my ideas and moods and likes/dislikes and etc. are always changing)

I love organic/natural foods, almost any kind of fruit (and things made out of fruit), chocolate milk, nathan's hot dogs, lamb, chocolate milk, MUFFINS, cookies, ice cream, cherry pie, biscuits from bob evans,.. (okey dokey, let's get past the food now)..

learning at college (especially reading literature and writing papers), children museums, art galleries/museums, watching television, making/designing crafts, shopping diy/handmade/etc. stuff,handwriting (myself and others), hands (myself and others), writing poetry - journals - letters - etc., embroidery & other hand stitchery, postal mail, libraries, bookstores, art journals, adventures/exploring with friends, books, reading (biographies and craft books and good literature and kids books and there are lots of good poets and..), japanese craft books, fabric, textures, colors, mixed media artwork, acrylic paint, hand dyed thread, handmade (pdf!) embroidery patterns, handspun yarn, talking/chatting/befriending artists/crafters etc., cinema/film (The Last King of Scotland really sticks out in my head of recent memory), foreign words + films + art + literature + culture/etc. (says the girl who can't learn foreign languages), time with my BFF, quotes, words, phrases, nicknames, song lyrics, public/mass transit, honesty (as a human quality),

National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (the Holocaust Museum, heck, DC in general), NYC in general, Kurt Halsey (the man and his artwork), Sabrina Ward Harrison (and her books), a million crafty/arty websites/blogs/etc., Columbus Arts Festival (and my two guys, Christopher Plummer and Chris Seeman.. oh and I've gotten stuff from Kim Young back in the day, she's nice: http://www.kimyoungart.com/), handwriting (myself and others), hands (myself and others), my Ohio deliver people (Danny the UPS guy and the usual USPS guy with our route), Wholly Craft! and Sew to Speak (my Columbus Ohio haunts!), Finding Nemo (and Ellen as Dory), Peanuts comics, Elmo Grover and Ernie (Sesame Street :)), Cloth Paper Scissors and Entertainment Weekly magazines (but Craft and World Literature Today are among those lurking to be added fulltime), Mary Poppins and Sound of Music (my Julie Andrews classics), Mr. Rogers, Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's), James Thurber, Jerry Orbach, Anne Hathaway, Scarlet Johannson, Alan Ball, Aaron Sorkin, Bradley Whitford, Allison Janney, Julie Taymor, Shirin Neshat, Emily VanCamp (Everwood, Brothers & Sisters), Sam Waterson as Jack McCoy (Law & Order), current cast of L&O - SVU - and CI,

favorite television of all time

still showing new episodes:
America's Next Top Model
Bones
Burn Notice
Flight of the Conchords
Fringe
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: UK
Leverage
Project Runway
Sesame Street

don't watch anymore:
The Cleaner
House
Without a Trace
Brothers & Sisters

series finished (includes shows canceled that aired more than one season):
Alias
Everwood
Felicity
Gilmore Girls - Amy Sherman-Palladino
Once and Again
The Resturant - Rocco DiSpirito
Scrubs
Six Feet Under - Alan Ball
West Wing - Aaron Sorkin
The X-Files - Chris Carter

series canceled:
Conviction - Dick Wolf
Cupid (old version with Paula Marshall and Jeremy Piven) - Rob Thomas
Firefly / Serenity (film) - Joss Whedon
Law & Order: Trial by Jury - Dick Wolf
Sports Night - Aaron Sorkin

want to see:
Arrested Development
Carnivale
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dead Like Me
Freaks and Geeks
Homicide: Life on the Street
JAG
Kitchen Confidential
Men in Trees
The Muppet Show
Nip/Tuck
Oz
Roswell
True Blood

watched a lot of growing up (not listed in any above list):
Ally McBeal
Boy Meets World
Dawson's Creek
ER
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Party of Five

flight of the conchords list

I just recently (like over the weekend) discovered the HBO series Flight of the Conchords. I loveeeeeeeeee it. :)

What the Folk! http://www.whatthefolk.net/

Articles:
http://flightoftheconchords.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/hey-ya-wellington-international-ukulele-orchestra/

Reading List

How We Felt Designs and Techniques from Contemporary Felt Artists by Carol Huber Cypher
Paper, Metal & Stitch by Maggie Grey & Jane Wild
Stitch Dissolve Distort with Machine Embroidery by Valerie Campbell-Harding and Maggie Grey
The Quilting Arts Book: Techniques & Inspiration for Creating One-of-a-Kind Quilts by Patricia Bolton

Wish List

Books:
The Art of Embroidery by ?
Complete Embellishing by Kayte Terry
Creative Recycling in Embroidery by Val Holmes
Mixed Mania: Recipes for Delicious Mixed Media Creations by Debbi Crane and Cheryl Prater
Mixed-Media Self-Portraits: Inspiration and Techniques by Cate Prato
Softies by ?
Three Dimensional Embroidery by Janet Edmonds
Japanese embroidery books

Patterns:
Cupcakeology $3.50 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14555417
Halloweenie Eenies $5.60 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14159270
Kitchen Chemistry Set $7 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12309444
5 patterns from superchickenstudios http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5962511
Missy Balance's Embroidery Designs (Pimp Stitch) http://www.pimpstitch.com/missyballance.htm

Supplies:
Magenta size 20 $7.50 & shipping http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13616741
Pizzazz size 20 $7.50 & shipping http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14300186
fiber from exclusivelylindalee

Art Misc:

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Films:
8 1/2
Breathless

Music:
Jeremy Larson

Other:
madeinatreehouse lip balm pack of 3 $9 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13415288

PDF Embroidery Patterns not already available for sale

Etsy users: beemiceelf, elsiecake, historicallydestash, knittydirtygirl, sassalynne, therainbowgirl, tommie77, travelingrhinos, wildolive

Individual Articles/Blog Posts

http://www.ccartwright.com/ - sequins!
http://www.joyfulabode.com/2008/02/12/tutorial-indian-shisha-mirror-embroidery
http://www.misplay.se/projects.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/Embroidery-101/ - Embroidery 101!
http://planetmithi.blogspot.com/2008/06/image-and-obs-update-2.html - hand sewn hands
http://craftchi.com/blog/?p=610 - embroidery thread cards
http://blog.designedlykristi.com/?p=645 - yummy frozen yogurt pictures
Knit - R - Done: The Outside Looking In--Exploration of Perceptions