Month: July 2007

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509 again!

Okay, I’m so sorry! You folks have exceeded my bandwidth again where I’m hosting the pdf’s for downloading. It’s totally being fixed and we should be a-okay shortly. We doubled it from last time…. I’m pretty amazed really. I’ll let you know when it’s fixed and you can start downloading

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Hey kiddos

Really quick, here is the link to audio of the panel session: Link. Jennifer of Craft Sanity recorded it. Make sure to check out the rest of her interviews, which rock! I’ll be back with more pictures and such. ps – it is so weird to hear myself talk….

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Lunch at the Arts and Crafts Table

It was pretty fun at the Arts and Crafts table today. I got to hang out with Natalie of CRAFTzine, Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood of the Craft Sanity podcast, Lish Dorset of Lish Magic and Handmade Detroit, Dave Coustan, and quite a few others. It was a super fun.. And I’m totally

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Off to BlogHer!

Hey there folks! I just wanted to pop in and say “hi” before I head off to the Windy City for the BlogHer conference. It should be so much fun! I’m excited and nervous and still in shock that I’m going! I’m almost packed, including: Handmade buttons by my friend

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Holy Moly 509!

Okay so sorry about the delay in the pattern download for the hook clutch. I exceeded my bandwidth! Well, you all exceeded my bandwidth! It’s being fixed now and everything should be a-okay soon. I’ve been storing the patterns on the domain space www.craftleftovers.com so you can just click to

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Shop Stuff

Hey folks!Okay, updates finished for now. Horay! I’ve added kits for the summer knit head wrap and some more for pencil clutches. See you all later! Have a good night and keep it crafty!

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Hook Clutch


I’ve been carrying more and more hooks around and my bag and therefore losing them all over the place, travesty!… what to do? A clutch was definitely in order. A necessity for any hooking person.

Now this is for the hookers, but next week I have something in the works for the ones with poky sticks. So this is kind of a two parter just to give you a heads up.

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Hey Folks

I just wanted to let you know:I’ll be posting the pattern in the pm… no big important reason except that I lost track of time and it’s midnight and I need to work all day tomorrow at my “real” job. So I’ll finish it up and post it in the

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Summer Sale Time!

I just wanted to let you all know I’m having a summer sale in the shop! Buy 1, get the 2nd half off!This counts for all regular priced kits, handmade items, and reclaimed craft leftovers.Just choose “other” as the payment method and I will send you a revised invoice. Oh

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BlogHer Conference Chicago!

I just wanted to let you all know that I’m going to be participating in a panel discussion at the BlogHer conference in Chicago on Saturday, July 28th @ 1:30-2:45. You should totally come check it out. The other panel members are Kathy Cano Murillo the Crafty Chica, Natalie Zee

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Happy Birthday Contest!

Okay so today is the one year anniversary of Craft Leftovers! Woo hoo to sticking to something for more than a week! As I hinted at before, I’m going to have a contest and pass out some prizes for the winners! Basically scraps are the bane of my existence. Try

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Sweater Mouse

I have a mountain of felted sweaters that I have collected from my work. For whatever reason, people don’t understand that we really can’t resell them for two reasons, it’s summer… and they are felted. But all the better for me because I get to take them home and find

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Knit Honey Bunny Repost

I will add the link in the original post as well. But I just wanted to let you know that I finished correcting the Honey Bunny pattern. Most of the errors were more along the lines of “this would be better phased like this,” but some were just dead wrong

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Medical Emergency

Well, I was able to get two new travel tissue covers in the shop, and there are still a hole lot of great kits available from last week. So go check it out. Unfortunately, I’m having a bit of a medical emergency with the two ferrets. Edited in: After Vet

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