Karen’s Whimsy

This morning I am going to point altered book and collage artist Karen Hatzigeorgiou’s site Karens Whimsy. The site houses Altered Books, Reliquaries, Wall Hangings and Collage Art. Links to her blog Artful Journey and the site also houses a number of tutorials such as treating paper in various ways, …

Owen Jones books online

Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament is online. The 1910 edition is provided free by the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Another gem from the same collection of e books also by Owen Jones is the 1867 edition of Examples of Chinese ornament selected from …

Free Photo editing online service

While trawling around the web I discovered Picnik a free online photo editing service You can load a photo from your computer or your Flickr site and edit it. Then save it for use. It is easy to pull photos straight from your Flickr account or you can enter the …

Some days are good and some are extra good

Yesterday a wonderful squishy arrived as a surprise gift from Lynn Schoeffler It truly is a squishie to lust after. Everything in it from the unusual fabrics to the vintage buttons was ‘me’. It was nice it set my mind a thinking – and I am not going to even …

English and Spanish Crochet abbreviations

If you are an English speaker and need to translate a Spanish crochet pattern you have a bit of a problem. Because the language and abbreviations are so specialised a translator will be useless. This site of English and Spanish Crochet abbreviations (link removed as it is out of date) will …