So I finally bought something on Etsy! (Not for lack of drooling, mind you, just that money is kinda tight at the moment.) I read the Yarn Harlot who was singing the praises of Unwind Yarn Company‘s superwash merino sock yarn. Well, I’m looking to build my sock yarn stash (and thanks to those who [...]

Tags: Craftygirl83, etsy, project superstar, sock yarn, stash, Superwash Merino, Unwind Yarn Company, Wendy Colourway, Yarn Harlot
Filed under: Projects and Plans

I mentioned these last week so here are the pix: The upper bracelets are plastic beads on elastic cord, the lower (for their mom, Valerie) is glass beads mixing the girls’ favourite colours with a silver awareness ribbon charm, strung on 49-strand silver-plated Beadalon.  The colours here aren’t great since I photographed them on my [...]

Tags: beading, Beadlon, bracelets, project superstar
Filed under: Show and Tell

Thanks to everyone who wore blue shirts and wished the girls well.   Their grandmother says that the transplant went smoothly, but now Marian has two weeks of feeling very rough while her bone marrow hopefully converts to be like Audrey’s. I finished the bracelets (3 each for the girls in plastic beads on elastic cording, [...]

Tags: beading, bracelets, project superstar, spinning
Filed under: Projects and Plans

Tomorrow is the big day for Project Superstar: Audrey (age 9) is donating her bone marrow to her sister Marian (age 6).  Please wear a blue shirt (light blue if possible, Marian’s favourite colour) to wish them success!  Marian’s request is on her blog. The official shirt (but wear whatever you like, just send prayers, [...]

Tags: project superstar
Filed under: Randomness

  (Photo: Me in the Project Superstar shirt with the view from Sacre Coeur in Monmartre, Paris.  April 12, 2008.) The Project Superstar photo program is people taking pictures of themselves in the Superstar shirt and sending them to Marian (the very crafty little girl having a bone marrow transplant whom I have mentioned several [...]

Tags: april in paris, paris, project superstar
Filed under: Randomness

I really hate letting people down. Especially when I know if I had just not procrastinated I wouldn’t have had this problem! I failed to finish my afghan for Tricot du Coeur. I let other things (Thing-a-day and Project Superstar) take precedence and then in the three weeks I had left — which should have [...]

Tags: failure, knitting to deadline, paris, project superstar, Tricot du Coeur
Filed under: Projects and Plans, Randomness

Marian is six years old and has been blogging for over a year now (by dictating to her mum, Valerie). From what I’ve seen she so very enthusiastic about crafting which is so great to see in a girl her age. But there’s something potentially getting in the way of her crafting this year: her [...]

Tags: *Sick Chicks who Craft, caitlyn's smiles, charity, marian, project superstar, purple petunia
Filed under: Inspirations