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Making Stuff: Super Saturday

by This is Carrie on September 22, 2009

What makes it super? Five straight hours of creating and crafting with a diverse and wonderful group of women (with a little, soup lunch break which really makes it a “Souper Saturday”). Theme: Inexpensive gifts for family & friends pvc marshmallow guns for the young and young at heart mini pies in a jar for […]

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Making Stuff: Poor Man’s Screenprinting

by This is Carrie on January 7, 2009

I tried my hand at this new “screen printing” process I read about, hoping my friends wouldn’t mind being the recipients of my first not-so-perfect attempts to make them some personalized tees.

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Making Stuff: Muddy Buddy Tanks

by This is Carrie on November 5, 2008

We needed to have matching tanks for the race, even though it didn’t really matter what we were wearing in the end.

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Soft Scrub in Action

by This is Carrie on October 13, 2008

Here are some examples of Soft Scrub in action: The green cloth diaper and both of the blue shirts were home-dyed and then bleached. The gray shirt was a factory dyed piece I then bleached. On these two shirts, I hand painted the insides of the letters with Soft Scrub to lighten them up a […]

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Crafters Give Back: Goods 4 Girls

by This is Carrie on August 8, 2008

1 night + 7 girls and their sewing machines = 20 cloth menstrual pads for girls in Africa (they’re finished except for the snaps–expect an e-mail mommymita). We probably could have gotten a few more finished if not for all the awesome menstruation related stories this sort of project inevitably brings to the surface.

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