If you’ve ever been to CraftTestDummies before, you know that 70% of my posts are craft product reviews. When CHA designer and Sizzix die designer Eileen Hull invited me to join her “Fresh Vintage Blog Hop” and use her new butterfly die it was only natural, then, that I approach the die from a reviewer’s perspective first. (Don’t worry, though- there is a project coming up too. We’ll get there in a minute.) First, let’s talk about the die. It’s […]
Archives for October 2011
CraftTestDummies at Martha Stewart Craft Week- Part 2
(Read Part One of my adventure here, if you’ve missed it!) So Monday, October 3rd was the big day- the day I got to go to the Martha Stewart Show as a “featured audience member!” They invited some of us crafty bloggers to come and blog/facebook/tweet live from the show. Haley- my “plus-one” for this event- was already in line, wearing a hand-made rolled fabric hair clip and this AMAZING necklace designed by Vicki O Dell. (Haley commissioned Vicki to […]
CraftTestDummies at The Martha Stewart Show Craft Week-Part 1
Wow! In a whirl-wind trip from Sunday, October 2 over To Monday, October 3rd to 2011 I was in NYC for the Martha Stewart Show Craft Week. But you KNOW I had to take a few detours, too, to visit some crafty places and see some crafty faces! Since the Martha Stewart Show studios are in the Fashion District I figured I’d stay there. (I’m a Hilton gal. Love me some Hiltons. The beds are the best. But I digress….) […]
Heading to the Martha Stewart Show (again!) for Craft Week
Hey there, crafty friends! Just want to share that tomorrow, October 3rd 2011 at 10 AM EST I will be returning as a featured guest on the Martha Stewart Show! It’s another LIVE show, so I will be FB-ing and tweeting my little fingers off! (Now in case you missed it, I did something similar last March. Read up on that experience here.) This time, I’m bringing Team CTD member Haley from The Zen of Making to be my plus-one! […]