Draw Me a Lion
I still have 2012 round-up posts to write, but in the interest of maintaining this blog while I take ages and ages to get those posts together, here’s one that’s about, you know, normal things. At Got Craft? last month, I had two nights of Hanukkah to shop for, and I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Draw Me a Lion‘s table. Illustrator Lisa Cinar launched her shop last year, and I’m fully in love with her work. I bought Owen a poster-sized paper of cat illustrations, which we taped to the dining-room table as soon as he unwrapped it. For the next week or so,...
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Last Saturday was Swap-O-Rama-Rama here in Vancouver. It’s a massive clothing swap, complete with sewing machines and screen printing so you can alter new-to-you clothes right at the event. It’s one of my favourite events of the year. I try to bring two full bags of clothes I need to get rid of, and come home with no more than one full bag. I didn’t have superduper mojo this year, but I did score an unexpectedly awesome floral top1. And I took home this panda t-shirt thinking I’d make a toy for Owen out of it. Now, I’d never actually sewn a toy from a t-shirt...
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