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One way to create your own fairy garden house
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litlnemo
Thursday, May 31 2018
When you’re designing a miniature garden, little “fairy houses” are irresistible. A tiny castle or log cabin or Tudor house, the door ajar, surrounded by tiny trees and vines — there’s really nothing more magical. It’s even more magical if you have them light up in the evening. The problem, however, is that fairy garden…
Carving a fairy house from cottonwood bark
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litlnemo
Wednesday, May 30 2018
Last year I made a couple of fairy garden houses from clay, and they were pretty cool. (I will try to catch up with my posting and get them up here soon.) But I am shamed by this carved house from Bobby Duke Arts, which is just gorgeous. Check it out!
Paisley Tote Bag project
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litlnemo
Thursday, Aug 10 2017
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted here! Well, moving across the country can do that to you. I have a lot of potential posts saved up, and I hope I will be able to get to them soon. Here’s a quick little project I just finished up last night: a simple paisley…
The Miniature Fairy Garden Project: Playing With Scale
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litlnemo
Monday, May 2 2016
Before I get to what I promised last time, I want to talk for a moment about scale. Like model railroads, fairy gardens come in many scales. The most common is 1:12 or 1″ scale, which means one inch in your miniatures is the equivalent of one foot in the real world. Other common scales…
The miniature fairy garden project: getting started
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litlnemo
Saturday, Apr 30 2016
So, you want to have a fairy garden. Before you get started, there are a few things you should consider. Some of them I remembered to consider myself; others were hard-won wisdom after I’d been working on my miniature garden for a while. No matter what, though, remember that you are doing this to make…
The miniature fairy garden project
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litlnemo
Friday, Apr 29 2016
Late last summer, I had an empty space in my yard. Under the living room window, behind the rose bushes, there used to be a ton of marigolds, which sounds nice, but they grew like weeds in that space and looked horrible after they finished blooming. So my housemate dug ’em all out, and there…
DIY an inexpensive way to hang posters and prints
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litlnemo
Saturday, Jan 23 2016
If you’ve tried to buy a frame for a large poster-sized print lately, you know how frustrating it is. Nice frames that size are ridiculously expensive. Other frames are less ridiculously expensive, but look cheap. Just tacking or taping the posters to the wall gets old once you’ve graduated from college dorm walls. I have…
Project: Orange coconut oil sugar scrub
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litlnemo
Friday, Dec 26 2014
This year my budget for Christmas was lower than it has been in previous years. So I made some presents: orange coconut oil sugar scrubs. They came out perfectly — they smell great and do an excellent job of exfoliating and moisturizing the skin. I love this stuff. As it turned out, the folks I…
Project: Chalkboard stairs
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litlnemo
Monday, Dec 15 2014
I have a stairway that goes up to the attic level of my house (that’s where my bedroom is, though originally the attic was unfinished.) The stairway was last painted some decades ago with boring gray floor paint. The walls are dingy “landlord white.” I’ve meant to do something with the stairway for 18 years,…
Knitting in progress: leafy scarf
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admin
Sunday, Apr 25 2010
This is the scarf I’m currently working on. Once I block it the leaves will be flatter. The yarn is Noro Kureyon, of course.
Pattern: Twistler wristwarmers
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admin
Tuesday, Mar 16 2010
Hi all, long time no see. So I’ll just jump right in with a new knitting pattern for your downloading and knitting pleasure! I was planning to go to a famous quadrennial winter sports competition, and thought the arena might be chilly, so I designed these wristwarmers that should keep any winter sports fan warm….
My latest project
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admin
Saturday, Oct 25 2008
For the last few weeks I’ve been working pretty hard (along with Jason) on a new project, and this time it’s not knitting or anything like that. It’s the Beacon Hill Blog. If you’re at all interested in Seattle neighborhood goings-on, check it out. And if not, here’s a knitting status photo from a few…
Homemade soap
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admin
Monday, Oct 20 2008
Some of my neighbors may have wondered why we were outside on the patio last week mixing a white powder with liquid, then setting it aside with a thermometer to measure its temperature, then periodically coming back outside and saying things like “nope, it’s still 125 degrees! Not ready yet!” Honestly, we were doing nothing…
I intend to be wearing this before Thanksgiving
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admin
Thursday, Oct 9 2008
I haven’t posted much about knitting lately. Mostly that is because I just haven’t gotten much knitting done, what with summer and real-life things interfering with the knitting time. But I am working on a couple of things. No new patterns just yet — I have some ideas percolating, but nothing ready to talk about…
Pattern: Melusine lace scarf
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admin
Friday, May 23 2008
This beaded lace scarf pattern is knitted with light fingering weight yarn and 6/0 seed beads. The lace pattern is relatively simple, and this scarf can be knit very quickly. The entire scarf is knitted in one direction; no grafting necessary! The pattern contains both stitch-by-stitch written instructions and charts, so you can use whichever…
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