Temari: Bellflower

Continuing in my spring flower temari theme, the next pattern I decided to do out of Barb’s book was “Bellflower.” Her original design called for a lighter blue background, but I had some brighter, darker blue already, so I used that, and I think it turned out quite nicely. I also recall that the original [...]

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Temari: Trillium

Spring has been coming in fits and starts here, so back at the beginning of March, I was rather longing to see some flowers, so I cracked open my copy of my temari teacher’s book and starting doing some flower-themed patterns. This one is called “Trillium,” and I was very pleased with how it turned [...]

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Fly, My Pretties!

I spent most of last month preparing for the annual UUFR craft fair, the same one I did last year, only with a lot less time to prepare for it sanely this year, what with moving, remodeling, a wedding, etc. I did manage to get it all done, though! Alas, I forgot to take my [...]

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The Magic Box

On Saturday, I went to an all-day class at Gallery Shibui on how to make a “Magic Box.” The woman teaching the class, Stacey Kirby, used to work in the rare books preservation department at one of the university libraries, where she spent a lot of time making enclosure boxes for the books, but she’s [...]

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Temari Ball: Spinning Fire

While I’m sitting here waiting for the plumber to come take the stubborn washer hose off the spigot, I decided to put my time to good use by getting all the pictures I’ve taken recently off my camera so I can begin catching up on my blogging. The plumber is now half an hour late, [...]

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TV rots the brain by filling it with useless knowledge

One of the problems with having hobbies that I prefer to do with something going on in the background is that it actually encourages me to watch more TV than I need to. I don’t mind this if I’m involved in, say, watching all of the first four seasons of Babylon 5 on DVD, but [...]

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Orange Skies Tea Tin

After spring comes summer! This tin turned out very bright and happy. I really love finding lace paper overlays that work properly with background papers. They can’t be too close in color, or it won’t stand out, but it can’t clash either, obviously. This one made a nice transition between the darker orange background and [...]

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Temari Class: Kiku Sampler

Goodness, I’ve gotten behind on my temari blogging. I just went to the last class Barb is having in preparation for EGA this weekend, and I realized I never got around to blogging about the class before that. That class was the second half of the intermediate session; we learned Maritime Stars in the first [...]

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Green Bamboo Tin

Here’s another tea tin from the bunch I decorated over the winter. I really like the bamboo-leaf patterned paper.

It struck me as a nice spring-y tin, after the last tea tin post’s autumn theme.

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Temari Ball: Swirl

As I promised at the end of my last temari post, the next ball I’ve almost completed now is the Swirl Ball. Due to a bizarre story about another temari person trying to insist that they can copyright a stitching technique, Barb has never written down the instructions for the way she marks this ball, [...]

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