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By Little Hands Book Giveaway

$75 voucher from Elementsbathandbody

Popcorn Factory Giveaway

Laura Hughes Note Cards

Say It With Sttiches Book

Stitch Kitty Fuzzzy Puppy Book

Manga Cross Stitch Book

Felting For Baby Book

Woven Treasures Book

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MR pinsMaya Road has released a number of new items in an early winter release. Products include stick pins (shown above,) Maya Mists, velvet flowers and acrylic stamps. Click here to see all the new products.

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Yuletide JewelsKaren Neary of Sew Karen-ly Created shows this finished project Yuletide Jewels sent in by blogger Bev Crouse of The Quilter’s Net. It’s one of Karen’s original patterns. Go here for details.

closeup yuletide jewelsCheck out Bev’s lovely stiching in this closeup.

[tags]ornament, show and tell, Yuletide, Holidays, Christmas, decorations[/tags]

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Mannequin TutorialSachiko from Tea Rose Home made this vintage-inspired child-sized mannequin for her daughter’s room, and shares a tutorial showing how she did it.  This is such a cool idea!!  Get the how-to.

[photo from Tea Rose Home]

[via Someday Crafts]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, child, mannequin, DIY[/tags]

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owlfromscarfAshley from Make It and Love It continues her series on repurposed scarves with a tutorial showing how to turn an old scarf into a cute little owl softie.  If you’ve got any babies or small children on your Christmas gift, this might be the gift for them!  Get the how-to.

[photo from Make It and Love It]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, owl, softie, scarf, repurpose[/tags]

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purseaccessoriesAngela Pea from Keeping the Faith shows how to make this chic checkbook cover.  She made it as part of a set of purse accessories, and includes links to the tutorials she used to make matching a business card holder and key fob.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Keeping the Faith]

[via Wardrobe Refashion]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, fabric, checkbook, cover[/tags]

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Real Women Scrap is holding a Holiday Blog-Abration with giveaways, contests and a way to share your blog and make new internet friends. Simply write a post about the event, including the Blog-Abration badge and leave a link to your post here. Then leave comments on the daily giveaway psots. Prizes include a photo book from Shutterfly and books from bestselling authors. Click…

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The Soap Artisan Friends of Etsy blog has several great holiday gift guides posted on their blog. You will find many great suggestions for bath & body products that will pamper Mom this holiday season. Even more helpful, in my opinion, is the Awesome gifts for Men post. The Dude soap pictured here is by Anhoki.

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Visit your local Michaels store on Saturdays in November and December for a very special series of free holiday workshops to encourage and inspire your creativity this holiday season.  There will also be corresponding how-to webisodes at Michaels.com. Both the in-store workshops and webisodes feature easy, affordable ideas for making the holidays special regardless of budget.

Here is the in-store event and…

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Looking for the winners of the recent giveaways? Follow these links!

Studio Calico Winner

Jenni Bowlin Winner

Scrapbook Deals 4 U Winner

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coffeestencilVisit How About Orange for a tutorial on making your own coffee stencils. Find the how-tos HERE. {Found via Craftzine.}

[tags]tutorial, stencil, coffee[/tags]

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image by Close To My Heart

image by Close To My Heart

Close to my Heart has another new fantastic video out, this one focuses on adding glitz, glamour and sparkle to your holiday cards and layouts. Click here to watch.
 
-Heather
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That means our winner is Cindy!

SD4U winner

Congrats Cindy, you should have an email from me, if not please contact me ASAP at scrapbooking@craftgossip.com

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Everyone has seen these advertised on TV.  Has anyone but me LONG AGO taken one’s long, fluffy robe and PUT IT ON BACKWARDS?  In my last house, my little lair was so cold that I’d routinely do this.  Why didn’t I think to take a crocheted robe pattern and turn it around?  Would I have made the million bucks before…

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Senior Editor Terri Trespicio shared a variety of Health Tips from the current issue of Body+Soul on The Martha Stewart Show. The tips include drinking strong black tea for diarrhea, eating broccoli for healthy gums, and the neti pot for cold/flu and allergy sufferers. See the video here.

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walnut earring I love these walnut earrings, posted as a tutorial by Rio Grande.

The great thing about this project other than the elegant and clean look is that Rio not only gives you the instructions in a clear manner, but they also give you a list of the materials and links to them within their website.

Yes, you can go out and buy…

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sweaterhatscarfHeather from My Frugal Family shares a cool idea for using an old sweater to make a new winter hat and scarf.  This is a great project for sweaters that have holes in them that make them unwearable, but are otherwise in good shape.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from My Frugal Family]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, sweater, refashion, hat, scarf, winter[/tags]

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twelve by twelveThe Twelve by Twelve artists got some exciting news today. Lark Books will be publishing a book about their Collaborative Art Quilt Project. Congratulations!

Go here for details.

[tags]Art quilts, Lark Books, Collaborative quilting[/tags]

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turkeypincushionJennifer Ackerman-Haywood of Craft Sanity shares a tutorial for a fun turkey-shaped placecard for your Thanksgiving table.  It’s based off of a pincushion pattern, so after Thanksgiving is all over you can send your guests home with a turkey-shaped pincushion. (Or you can keep them all for yourself and have a little hoarde of turkeys on your sewing table.)  Go to the…

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Scrabble Earrings, Charm Bracelets and Keychains new at Pieces Of Me Pendants.

Charms, Earrings and Keychains are made from wooden Scrabble® tiles (approx. ¾” square), decoupaged with graphic images that are sealed with a high gloss non-toxic finish.  Your charms, earrings and key chains can all be turned into necklace pendants.

Each item will be gift packaged in a bag (colors vary) making…

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breadcornucopiaMake your own gorgeous cornucopia from bread with these how-tos from Chica and Jo. Found via One Pretty Thing.

[tags]bread, cornucopia, Thanksgiving[/tags]

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Sarah Powell of Lilith’s Apothecary shares two recipes for herbal mouthwash that will help you to maintain healthy gums. You can purchase Sarah’s products here.

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twirlywhirlyskirtCarrie from This Mama Makes Stuff rounds out her week of tutorials with instructions for making this Easy Peasy Whrrly Twirly Skirt for little girls.  Get the tute.

[photo from This Mama Makes Stuff]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, easy, twirly, skirt, girls[/tags]

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image by C J Vogt

image by C J Vogt

There are so many colors of Copic markers available it can be hard to keep track of what you have so C J Vogt of the Craft Junkies blog is offering a free down load of two Copic marker charts to help you more easily organize your markers and see what their true colors are. What…

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lace edged scarfCraftStylish shows how to make this scarf with lace edging at the bottoms.  The silk will be soooo soft against your skin, and a pretty contrast with a tweedy winter coat.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from CraftStylish]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, lace, trimmed, edged, scarf[/tags]

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urbanknitfits

I love announcing new shops! Here’s one:

We are Urban knitfits- based in Portland Maine.  We make cozy wool fashion accessories and items for the home.  We love to work with eco wool, and about 80% of our projects are made with Peruvian eco wool!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/urbanknitfits

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