Happy birthday to my h-band John! I picked up some cake mix, icing and those little packets of colored icing for decorating, not really sure what I’d turn his cake into this year. I wasn’t feeling too inspired, possibly because I am so pregnant (39 weeks and just 3 days from my due date) and [...]

You get it by now…I knit a LOT. So much so that I sell what I make, and have multiple “shops” set up to sell different types of things. A couple of months ago my one shop (EcoKate) got accepted to a neat-o site known as Trunkt. I blogged about it. I’m here to blog [...]

I’ve been knitting and crocheting to my heart’s delight, as usual. Honestly, if you come to my apartment and look around, you’ll find knitting paraphernalia everywhere, along with a ton of finished and almost finished projects. I guess you could say that working with yarn and needles/hooks is like a drug for me. This addiction [...]

So I get google alerts which help me figure out where my Etsy shops are mentioned on this big world wide web we all know and love. So today I get an alert and was tickled with delight when I saw that a tutorial I wrote for my street team’s blog is mentioned on Craftzine’s [...]

I just need to brag for a minute. I submitted a few shots and small descriptions of my dish cloths to Trunkt today. Trunkt is, in its own words, a “premium directory of creative entrepreneurs”. I’ve submitted things to Trunkt numerous times in the past, hoping to get accepted and show off my wares to [...]

The NewNew Street Team has contrived a great promotional opportunity for its craft-selling members. We’re basically putting a few samples of our crafty works into gift baggies (including our business cards and urls on everything we give), which are then going to be given away to celebrities via MTV. I’m not sure exactly where this [...]

I just got through listening to an NPR report on hand making and crafting. One gentleman being interviewed postulated that people DIY because of some lack of trust in corporations in general. Now, while I have a lack of trust, faith and respect for a lot of corporations, that’s not really why I love to [...]

In my Etsy obsessive state, I created a second shop last Friday. I decided I’d like to have a place where I can better and more clearly market my eco-friendly items. So far I’ve listed 3 sets of eco-friendly reusable dish cloths (see below), one of which has sold! I may not get to really [...]

Second attempt at intarsia, and my first completed Swimmy: Here’s Swimmy’s story if you, like myself, never heard it before:

I decided to try my hand at embroidery with the latest project mentioned in my previous post. I’ve been wanting to embroider for a while and now have the supplies necessary to try it without greatly annoying, not to mention stabbing myself. Above is a preview of how it’s looking so far. Somewhat abstract, I [...]

[Swimmy by Lilfishstudio's] So, Etsy’s Storque (basically it’s News/Events/Etc. section of the website, run by the Etsy admin) is asking all us crafty folk to come up with what they call “Swimmys“. Swimmys are basically little fish made out of whatever you want to make them with. One of the street teams I am on [...]