Posts Tagged ‘ Mighty Ugly ’

New Tutorial on CRAFT: Need a Push to Make Something Ugly?

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August 17, 2011
New Tutorial on CRAFT: Need a Push to Make Something Ugly?

I'm really psyched to have had the opportunity to write a bit of a guide to making a Mighty Ugly creature for the CRAFT blog. I mean, it's CRAFT! And I got to sit for an afternoon and make and photograph an ugly creature! Fun times. So if you've been listening to me blather about...
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Mighty Ugly in Portland for Today’s Etsy Craft Party!

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June 10, 2011

Have I mentioned that I'm getting back into Mighty Ugly? Since I'm back to, you know, fairly full cognitive functioning now that Owen's almost six months old, I'm back to thinking a lot more about my favourite project. Something that excites me very much is that Mighty Ugly will be at one of Portland's Etsy...
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Videoblog the Second: Mighty Ugly and CreativeMix

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November 8, 2010
Videoblog the Second: Mighty Ugly and CreativeMix

Last Thursday I spent the day doing very ugly arts and crafts with all sorts of interesting people as part of the Exhibition at the CreativeMix conference here in Vancouver. It was the first time in many, many years that I had to prepare a visual display for something, and here's the story of...
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That Summit Really Was Awesome

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June 25, 2010
That Summit Really Was Awesome

All I really want to say is that I hope the people at Hello Craft invite me to next year's Summit of Awesome. Because the one last week was fantastic. I've got my work mojo back. And there are lots of ideas I want to tell you about. But for now, I'm just going to sum up...
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Heading Back to Portland: Summit of Awesome

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May 31, 2010
Heading Back to Portland: Summit of Awesome

Where's my favourite west-coast place to visit? Portland! The home of Powell's Books and mecca of the crafts world will play host to the Summit of Awesome from June 16-18. Why do I love working in crafts? Because when crafters throw a conference, we call it the Summit of Awesome. It's put on by promoters...
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Housekeeping!

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May 19, 2010
Housekeeping!

So many little things collecting in my brain, and I haven't set any of them down here. Time to remedy that! *Rolls in my trusted bulleted list.* After a decade wondering what it would be like, I was on the radio. Not live radio, but radio all the same. In a studio, with a schmancy...
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Introducing Mighty Ugly

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April 9, 2010
Introducing Mighty Ugly

A couple of weeks ago an idea pounced on me while I was riding the bus home at night. The kind of idea that led me to run home from the bus stop and have a domain registered and half a website built before I went to bed. I've written about intentionally making ugly crafts...
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