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Featured Etsy Seller for Nov.

Here is an Etsy Seller that has a little bit of everything. Becky from the Fab Miss B blog. She has two Etsy Shops, The Fab Miss B , in which she highlights vintage, (yes you can buy vintage on Etsy!)  Chinoiserie Tea Tin $10.00 Mini Painted Koch Grandfather Clock $20.00 Her other shop is Becky Kazana in which she sells her hand made cards and garlands. Be Present Card $3.50 Waiting on You Card $3.50 Why buy from a store when you can send a one of a kind card for the same price! Enjoy shopping…

This and that…recycle it

I hate to throw things away, I’m always looking for other uses for things, here are a few I like Altoids Tin Gardens from Gomi Style If you must cut a sock apart, this is a good reuse for it from Design Sponge, Argyle Sock Vases Monica at Crafty Nest shows how to make a craft tool station and wall organizer “from crap from the curb” I thought this was interesting (but would never do this), recycle leaves by folding them into roses from Craftgossip.com But I do love the tiny little cards made from treasured bits by Designing Moms Recycle your old tee shirt into a diaper/nappy , very cute! From Natural Violet. Bleach Stenciling from Craftbits.com Hey I clean with bleach I thought could be a great “save” for those accidents to my clothes. Carton Wallet from family fun, I would actually make this. How about this, cereal is expensive, get some more use out of the box, here are five things you can do with a cereal box (gift bag and magazine holder are the best) fro

More dyed yarn

In the attempt to get a different look to my dyed yarn, I tried to dip the yarn into separate dye pots. Wow, I love the look, clean colors, more definition.  I used this article from Knitty to guide me. Of course it is more work. My hats off to all of you who hand paint yarn! I started with some vibrant shades of violet and green. I couldn’t find what I wanted and ended up using this tutorial on food coloring. From Spindle and Wheel. I used the Neon food colors that I found at a baking shop. They came in a paste. The mixing was quite a bit of trial and error. To come up with the right color and salt/vinegar mixture, this resulted in lots of little bundles of dyed yarn, and several pages of notes. I wanted the colors fairly close together to get a nice repeat when knitted. Wheee…This really exercised my arm muscles, dipping into the green, I tried to make five different bands of color. Then the purple, also five bands. Then wrap it all up into saran wrap and microwave i