Meet your editors
CraftGossip relies on its bunch of dedicated editors to bring you the latest in craft gossip. Each sub-blog has its own editor so that you know that you are getting the best information possible. This page tells you a little about each editor so that you can know the faces behind the gossip!
Sewing: Candi Cane-Canncel
Candi Cane-Canncel is a clothing designer and sewing instructor based in Los Angeles. She has been featured on a number of crafty television shows as well as a whole lot of sewing videos on expertvillage.com. Her website is: http://www.candiland.com.
Needlework: Kasey Anne
Kasey is a relative newbie to needlework projects after taking up craft as a hobby just 5 years ago. She admits she has a lot to learn but enjoys researching latest trends information and products. Kasey prides herself on being able to find a bargain when it comes to shopping and needlework supplies is no exception. Her over stocked craft room is filled with products she is itching to review for you.
Polymer Clay: Heather Powers
Heather Powers is a mixed media bead artist who combines her original beads with intricate beading techniques. She has mastered the polymer clay bead making techniques of caning and uses her knowledge of color theory to produce subtle and sophisticated beads. Heather has a degree in fine arts and has been creating her art beads for over 14 years. Her work has appeared in BeadStyle Magazine, Step by Step Beads, Beads 2007, Easy Beading Vol. 1 & 2 and on HGTV’s That’s Clever and PBS’s Beads, Baubles & Jewels.
Heather is also the creative force behind Bead Cruise, Bead Week and the Art Bead Scene blog.
To see Heather’s unique art beads visit her website: http://www.humblebeads.com
Bath and Body: Kimberly Ayers
Hello! My name is Kimberly Ayers, most people know me as “Bella.” Originally from California I now live in Roswell, GA with my merry gang of Oompa Loompa kidlets, 2 old and smelly dogs and my husband. Who by the way, isn’t old and smelly!
I create bath and body products, aromatherapy products and natural perfumes that I sell on my website The Queen’s Obsession While I love making my own products - I also love to try out products that others are making! My experience comes from being in the professional beauty & aromatherapy industries in sales, marketing and education as well as working for Ms. Jeanne Rose as her personal assistant.
In addition to being a mad alchemist, I’m also a mixed-media & altered art artist and have my own line of rag dolls. My days are usually spent (in no particular order) writing down ideas for new scents and products to make, sketching out doll patterns, creating artwork, sewing dolls and thinking up new ways to incorporate my children into helping with my creative obsessions. When the two oldest children start school in August I am ecstatic because that’s when MY vacation starts and I can get even more creative and more things done. Like shopping at my favourite thrift stores for new treasures to turn into art!
I will do my best to keep you informed of all things Bath and Body! Hearing from you as well is something I’m looking forward to-questions, comments about products, creating products and related websites you may know of are welcome too!
Stamping: Maggie Lamarre
I Have always being crafty dabbling in many kinds of art from jewlery making, to decorating, from scrapping to stamping to my current love of Altered art …
After all these years I finally found my niche in Hybrid. Getting into stamping and scrapbooking was a natural evolution for me, combining my love for technology with Photography. With the growth I’ve experienced I describe my style as simple with a sprinkle of textures, lots of depth, and vibrant luminosity.
I am a graphic designer and you can find my designs at http://www.dragonflairestudios.com or on my blog at http://www.mphoinix.blogspot.com.
I hope you enjoy the post and leave us comments. Let us know if there here’s a technique you would like to see featured.
Have fun create your ART,
Maggie
Indie Crafts: Jamie Chan
Jamie is a college professor and fiber artist, native to the San Francisco Bay Area. Her penchant for everything handmade stems from being raised by her award winning quilter mother and attending art school from the age of 15. She was also an active leader in the San Francisco Craft Mafia, organizes the San Francisco chapter of national craft show Bazaar Bizarre and teaches art through her local community centers. You can see her work at her web shop–Mary Jane’s Attic–where she offers handmade art, yarn and fiber arts supplies.
Jewelry Making: Barbe Saint John
Hello! I am Barbe Saint John. I live in San Francisco and create narrative art jewelry, handspun novelty art yarns, and mixed media/found object assemblage.
I have been crafting for as long as I can remember, starting with simple Barbie dresses. I think I have tried just about about every craft there is but my passion is jewelry making, shrines and hand spinning yarn. My website is www.barbesaintjohn.com.
While I spend about 85% of my day creating, I like to spend time with my husband exploring the city, being with our herd of cats and Chihuahua, dancing, collecting 50’s jewelry and clothing, reading and taking classes. My works have appeared in a number of publications and galleries in North America, and I am a member of the San Francisco Craft Mafia and the American Craft Council.
Felting: Linda Lanese
I am from the Midwest and I am a freelance graphic designer and I work for companies and individuals designing their logos, banners, flash and web designs. I have been a long time member with Art on The Net where I have my art gallery. The following is my web site: www.studiolou.com .
I adore most arts and crafts and have tried my hand at most of them to see what appeals to me. When I discovered felting I found a new world of creative crafting, that in my opinion is just being tapped. New books arrive on the market each month and I have purchased my share of these wonderful volumes and was overwhelmed by what you can do with felting.
The felting I am reviewing has nothing to do with knitting, as it is an art unto itself. I hope to offer you the newest in felting ideas and the latest tools for this craft. Hearing from you with ideas, questions or your projects will be a real pleasure for me and everyone else on the site. If you know of a neat link or project please let me know. I hope this felting area opens up a new world of crafting for many people. Here is a site that shows some of the items I have felted.
www.studiolulu.com-a.googlepages.com/felting
I am thrilled to be one of your felting editors.
Candle Making: Sandra Williams
Sandra is a freelance writer from Ontario, Canada who also enjoys cooking, crafts, and computer technology. She’s a stay at home mom who loves creating candles and researching and experimenting with new candle making methods. Her children enjoy assisting her in her creative endeavors and they can often be found blasting music and making messes together. In her leisure time she stays busy reading, writing, cooking, creating crafts, and avoiding housework as much as possible. You can also find her writing at Suite101 and 451Press.
Crochet Editor: JD Wolfe
I’m a Midwesterner who has crocheted for 8 years. When I first learned to crochet, I knew no other crocheters, so I started the St. Louis Crochet Club which still prospers. Since then, several other crochet groups have popped up in the St. Louis area and I’m in touch with many crocheters locally. I love all sorts of crafts, including beading, quilting, sewing, and papercrafts. I have a huge stash of crochet books and patterns that I have acquired during the past 8 years. Fortunately, my husband is very indulgent and my children are tolerant of the stacks of magazines, stray skeins of yarn, and repeated reminders to not step on my work as it lingers on the floor of the family room! I MUST work on more than one project at a time so I can take a break from a project to regain my enthusiasm. Crochet has pretty much taken over my craft life, leaving little time for my other crafts.
I am in LOVE with freeform and have a strong bent toward reusing, recycling and repurposing materials for craft. I call this Re-Crafting. I own my own business, a learning center for teens in substance abuse recovery, work in my husband’s office, and referee at home with my three kids and their many friends who seem to enjoy hanging out at our home. I have taught several of my students to crochet as I find crochet to be both creative and spiritual. There is nothing else quite like the feeling one gets upon completion of a difficult project! I use patterns mostly as suggestions of how to make things, so I often become involved in a lot of frogging and reworking. It’s a learning process that seems endlessly intriguing to me.
In past lives, I have been a highschool English teacher, Assistant Director of a Hospital Medical Records Department, homeschooling mom, homeschooling mentor, and spent seven years writing and editing reports of litigation and publication for a firm of forensic engineers involved in accident reconstruction and causation, including testifying in court on many cases. I look forward to retiring sometime in the next 10 years so I can devote more time to crochet and pattern design.
Scrapbooking Editor: Trisha Michaels
Trisha is from Idaho and is a self confessed scrapbooking addict. With experience in selling supplies online and of course buying supplies for her own habit she has also dabbled in designing her own exclusive range of scrapbook products which are soon to be released.
Knitting News: Jasminta Kiosk
Jasminta is new to the internet, but certainly not new to knitting. With 5 sisters and 3 brothers Jasminta has plenty of knitting requests to keep her busy. Her very first project was a scarf in school when she was just 15 and since then her knitting has consumed her life and taken over the front room. Jasminta says “With cold english winters here in the north there is nothing more satisfying then curling up infront of the fire place and knitting something to keep my family warm”.
Recycled Crafts Editor: Alissa Cyphers
Alissa has been a publications editor, writer and graphic designer in the craft and hobby industry for about 10 years and currently is a college web editor for her alma mater. Outside of work she enjoys scouring the Internet, traveling, watching true-crime TV and movies, and creating greeting cards for friends and family. She considers herself a dabbler in all things artsy-craftsy, from paper arts to needle arts. She strives to live a green lifestyle, which was jump-started when she and her husband took on the ultimate do-it-yourself project: building a house using post-and-beam construction, straw bales, passive solar design and other environmentally-friendly and energy-saving features and materials. They live in Kansas with their cat, Bella, who’s both beautiful and aloof.
CraftGossip Editor: Shellie Wilson
Shellie Wilson is the founder of Craftbits.com and CraftGossip.com.
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