Just sharing a fun layout about my little family: I cut the hexagons on my Silhouette and inked the edges with ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink in Prussian Blue. I then mounted them to the page, rotating them so the subtle denim pattern of the paper was laying in various directions. A little sprinkle of
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Author: Jennifer Priest
It started with jewelry, beading, sewing, home decor, painting, basket weaving, pottery, and cross-stitch. Marry that to an entrepreneurial spirit & at 9 years old a girl is selling her wares at craft fairs as far as her parents and grandparents would drive her. These days, Jennifer enjoys crafts of all genres from sewing to scrapbooking to jewelry with a little dabbling in the mixed media world. Her style is approachable and she wants everyone who sees her work to feel that they too can embrace creativity and make their home and life beautiful.
Don’t Buy It! Make It!!
Handmake your own home decor and more in my upcoming “Flea Market Finds” class at My Creative Classroom, starting April 26th at mycreativeclassroom.com! “Flea Markets Finds” features the best ideas and techniques from the Thrifty Thursdays feature I run on my blog – these projects are now secret and can only be seen here at
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How I Spent The Weekend
Designer Craft Connection[ Hop back ] [ Hop forward ] It’s not often that I have a relaxing weekend but this past weekend was filled with craftiness galore! How often do you get to go to TWO craft events in one weekend?It all kicked off Sat urday morning with a class at Collective Journey–this was
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April No Foolin’!
I am so excited because TODAY is the first day that my new design team is sharing projects!!!!!!! This month I have released a DIVA kit and Nancy Keslin rocked it!! These kits are deceiving in the listings because you can’t really see all the awesomeness inside so I am really glad that Nancy kept making
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Open House @ Crafted – tomorrow
coming SUMMER 2012 – a permanent craft marketplace Is this email not displaying correctly?View it in your browser. A Permanent Craft Marketplace opening SUMMER 2012.That means 52 weekends a year of handmade happiness right here in Los Angeles. The only thing we are anticipating more than the premiere of MAD MEN is our OPEN HOUSE! A first class
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Craftcation on the Family Side
One of the things I am trying to do this year is spend more time with my family. So I figured if I was not even going to BE in my hotel room each day at Craftcation, they could at least come and enjoy the beach and then we can hang a little here and
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Thrifty Thursdays: Haul from Ventura
I spent the last weekend at Craftcation in Ventura CA–it was amazing! One of the cool things they did in the program for the event was list all of the local thrift shops for us to go visit. That was so thoughtful! And much appreciated :)I ditched class on Saturday midday (I know, but there was
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