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Only a soul that’s devoid of joy can fail to love a good sock monkey, or to smile at that goofy knitted-primate face and gangling limbs. More fun yet, when the sock monkey gets celebrity status!
This little guy, from the Sock Monkey Jungle of Lancashire, UK, channels Elton John at his most groovy, complete [...]

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Stone Jewellery Jackpot

by domestika on November 2, 2008

Jackie is a medical technologist in Upstate New York. Her full-time day job is working in a hospital lab, but that’s not where her heart is — she’s hiking in the Adirondacks.
And she’s turning the inspirations of nature into jewellery, twisting wire around beautiful stones and pearls and beads to create striking bracelets, necklaces, [...]

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Bags That Bite

by domestika on October 29, 2008

Part handbag, part animal (and I do mean, Animal… Do you recall the crazy-wild drummer from the Muppets Show? Like that) — here’s an accessory with a difference.

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Glass Mermaid Bead

by domestika on September 29, 2008

Serena Smith, glass artist of Oregon, caught my eye on Etsy with her gently rounded feminine figure beads, all earth mothers and goddesses, and floral beads that are tiny fantastical garden gems — but I think it was really the sinuous perwinkle-blue-tailed mermaid who made me an instant fan.
Serena’s been making beads since 1991, [...]

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The crafter known as Waterrose and I met online fairly recently (over at BenBarden’s place, I think). The embroidery felt cuffs she sells in her online craft shop grabbed me right away! So of course I roped her in here to tell a bit about how she got started with her unique craft — and [...]

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