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we aren’t doing enough arts and crafts in this world I’m telling you

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... dragons are everywhere ...

🎨 Astrid Sheckels

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Stars I made for the farmers market 🥹⭐️

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Pia-Paulina Guilmoth (American, b. NH, USA, based ME, USA) - We Make a Flower, 2024, from series Flowers Drink the River, Photography

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some of the beaded fish jewelry i’ve made this year ✨🐚 hand stitched onto felt with vintage & salvaged beads

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One of my beloved Oddballs, Winter the Wayward 🤍❄️ The Oddballs are born of little scraps and lost things in the workshop and brought to life by magic. Winter is the quiet one, shy and very sweet, with a habit of wandering off and getting himself lost, with a slight ability to see into the future. But he loves his friends and books about strange things, mysteries, poetry, and murder most foul.

Winter's Book List:

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe; The Highwayman; Grimm's Fairy Tales; King Lear; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth; And Then There Were None; Peril At End House; The Island of Doctor Moreau; Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were; Alice in Wonderland; The Book of Unsolved Mysteries; Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories.

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I upgraded my altiods tin sewing kit! (More details are in the image ID)

I added more needles, safety pins, thread, and a sharp pair of thread scissors just small enough to fit inside the tin. There's usually two needle threaders in here but one is in use atm. And there's enough stuff inside to fit perfectly so that the lid can close all the way and nothing slides around so that's nice

I am gonna post my little altiods tin emergency chronic pain/migraine kit within the next few days as well so keep an eye out for that if you're intrested

[ID: various pictures of a metal altoids tin, about 3.5 inches by 2 inches, with sewing supplies inside. A little bag of silver safety pins, varying colors of thread on 5 small spools, more colors of thread wrapped around two small rolls of paper and inside a small plastic bag, a folded piece of paper measuring tape, a small pair of orange thread scissors, a needle threader, and some buttons inside a little bag. There are varying sizes and types of sewing needles that are stuck in a small rectangular piece of green felt that fits on top of everything inside the tin. It has sharps, darning needles, embroidery needles and one curved needle.

The colors of thread included are: light pink, a muted rusty orange, white, a few shades of light brown and off white all wrapped around one piece of rolled paper. The other paper rool has more vibrant saturated colors including red, blue, yellow, dark green, and orange. The little bag had extra recycled pieces of thread i salvaged from other projects that are long enough to still be used. And the colors on the 5 small spools are black, dark mossy warm green, dark brown, light brown and white. End ID]

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Guys, please met Bug. He's a cutie and I made him. Look at him, you can't say no to that face!

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buttons + coffee

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by threadhandedjill

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A teeny tiny embroidered bead* lizard for my jacket!

*no actual beads were used but I figure if I can crochet a bead lizard I can embroider one

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Merry Christmas! I dropped off my Happy Holidays batch of Book Buddies, so here's a few of them: The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, Fezziwig the Cardinal, Ebenezer the Polar Bear, Hubie the Penguin, and some of many, many Buddy the Bulbs.

And y'all ♡♡♡ someone gave me felt!

Another library patron liked the Book Buddies so much that they bought me a bundle of felt, how sweet is that? They were anonymous but the librarians said they would thank them. Next time I go in, I'll drop off a thank you card and a Book Buddy for the librarians to give to them.

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The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Christmas Yet To Come from A Christmas Carol ♡ I used two of my Book Buddies from Halloween, Earnshaw the Ghost and Pugsley the Poltergeist as the base for the designs. I really love the little details, Past holding a sprig of holly, Christmas Yet to Come's button eyes, and the beaded icicles from Present's crown.

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insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women