Pear & Peacock: DIY

I just discovered this site today, after coming across her cute jewelry.
There are a lot of fun DIY tutorials, most for the holidays. My favorite has to be the DIY: Sequin Ornaments.
They remind me so much of ornaments my parents had from the '70s! Yay, handmade nostalgia!

Pear & Peacock: DIY

Free Holidays DIY Project E-Book

Eight Holiday Tutorials and DIY Projects | papernstitch

Holiday Crafts

 Two weeks to Christmas!? That's crazy. Where did 2010 go? While we've barely managed to get our tree and lights up, I still hope to make a couple Christmas homemade crafts. 


At the top of my list, these gift tags. We made chocolate orange homebrew beer (yum!!) for gifting this year. Instead of going the label route we did for our wedding brew, I want to make these gift tags, and tie them to the bottles with baking twine!

Holiday Freebie: Typographic Gift Tags » Eat Drink Chic

I always love bunting to cheer up a space - 

DIY: winter fun bunting {download}

I also love these felt crafts, found via  Oh, Hello, Friend 

DIY: felt shingle tree

DecoratingHomemade for the Holidays: Easy Felt Crafts

 

What holiday crafts are you making this year?

SoCoDivka Designs and Black & Blue Letterpress >> 78704 Market TONIGHT

Cindy of Black & Blue Letterpress and I will be at the 78704 Market tonight at 1600 S Congress Ave. in Austin for First Thursday from approximately 5:30pm - 10pm or so. (Cindy will be there earlier, from about 3:30pm on...)

I have lots of new designs including sweet vintage brass lockets and more, very reasonably priced: from $8 earrings to $15 - 37 necklaces. 

Cindy has a lot of fresh letterpress - cute note cards, lovely letter sets, and notepads perfect for gift giving (I bought several for stocking stuffers at E.A.S.T.).

More about Black & Blue Letterpress:

Black & Blue is a letterpress print shop that specializes in fine ephemera and custom stationary based in Austin, TX. Both Cindy St. John and Scott Pierce have backgrounds in poetry, and Scott has been a designer and letterpress printer for almost ten years with Effing Press. They like words, ink, metal, paper, art, kittens and breakfast tacos.

Come do your holiday shopping with us!

WeAre78704.com - 78704 Market

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Silversmithing holiday dreams...

My finace bought me a 6-week class in silversmithing starting in February for Christmas! So by March, expect to see some new designs in sterling silver! Yay! I've been wanting to do this for a while, as I tried it almost 10 years ago, and I loved it but never had the time and money to get a studio going. My sweetie also got me a new pair of metal clippers in my stocking. His mom got me a giftcard to a craft store, and my dad lent me a book on jewelry design and metal smithing while we were visiting for the holidays.

Expect to see some new, exciting things in SoCoDivka Designs' future! I have a ton of new beads and things sitting on my work table, too, and can't wait to bring you some new ideas that have been brewing in the new year.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a great new year!
Tell me what Santa brought you in the comments...