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The French-Inspired Home

An entry from June 25, 2008

Shoes shoes shoes. That's all it's been about these past few weeks on PuglyFeet, and so it's nice to change the pace a bit and write about something else like my favorite book of late -- The French-Inspired Home by Kaari Meng. As some of you already know, I love anything vintage. This book is packed with pages and pages of "noteworthy notions" and my heart leapt with joy as I savored each page.

I'll share my knowledge of vintage notions, how to collect them, where to find them, and how I develop color palettes for decorating. I'll lead you through the French-inspired home, room by room.

~ Kaari Meng

Seeking guidance to achieve a "French sense of home?" Look no further and let this happy book be your guide. Following are some of my favorite images:

{ Images from The French-Inspired Home by Kaari Meng.}

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Glass Button Brooch DIY

An entry from May 29, 2008

I ventured into the city and visited Britex Fabrics for the very first time -- I'll have photos in Flickr eventually. After Britex, I stopped by The General Bead Store on Minna where I found some awesome button converters by the counter. There were actually two types: one to convert buttons into pins/brooches and the other to convert buttons into pendants. In retrospect, I should've gotten one of those, too. Button converters are about 3 bucks a pop and come in different sizes, so you can virtually convert a wide variety of buttons sizes into pins and pendants.

When I was at Satin Moon Fabrics on Clement a couple of weeks ago, I bought a couple of beautiful dragon fly glass buttons on a whim. Then today, I saw these button converters at General Bead -- something clicked. I can do something with those dragon flies!

With glue gun in hand, all I had to do was to stroke the periphery of the converter with hot glue and then to press it against the back of a button. Then, voila -- lovely glass brooches to go!

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Small Packages

An entry from April 26, 2008

I nspired by Jessica Jones' thumbtack tutorial, I decided to make a bunch. I've been dying to make these thumbtacks since I first visited her blog several months ago, but a million nifty excuses trumped any of my attempts.

Well, Mother's Day is just around the corner and is the perfect excuse to set aside homework and laundry and other practical chores to get knee deep in crafts. You can check out the thumbtack tutorial HERE. Ms. Jones' illustrative instructions are very easy to follow. Emphasis: For the 1/2" button covers, you will need thumbtacks that measure 3/8" at the base. Any larger, then the thumbtacks won't fit inside the button cover.

For packaging, I decided to create origami gift boxes and thought that miniature boxes to house 6 thumbtacks would be endearing and so very cute. I found a simple origami gift box tutorial from Expert Village HERE. To create a cover, just use paper dimensions that are slightly larger than the base of the box.

The thumbtacks and the origami box were a great joy to create. Thanks, How About Orange and Expert Village for these rockin' tutorials.

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Oh Bazaar

An entry from December 10, 2007

I've been studying diligently for the last two weeks. When I’m not at work, I’m studying. When I’m not sleeping, I’m studying. When I sleep, I dream about Prolog. So as you can imagine, I look forward to the end of the semester next Friday, but even more so, I look forward to Bazaar Bizarre on Saturday, December 15. I’ve been looking forward to it since October!

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ACM

An entry from November 20, 2007

ACM on MySpace

I was surprised to see a link to "ACM on MySpace" from Naughty Secretary's blog. "Wow", I thought, "You go girl!" I clicked on the link, thinking I'd arrive at the MySpace page for Association of Computing Machinery. It didn't occur to me that ACM was also an acronym for Austin Craft Mafia. Doh!

{ Screen shot from: naughtysecretaryclub.blogspot.com }

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