Hi everyone. Today, I’m so very pleased to introduce my new website. It was made by Jenny Medford at Websy Daisy, whom I recommend enthusiastically. On my end, everything was straightforward and easy; Jenny was patient, responsive, and imaginative; the parts of website-building that were beyond my abilities were magically lifted from my plate; I… Read more »
making things
Teeny Books for Christmas
This December, I discovered the Etsy shop Ever After Miniatures, which offers DIY printable miniature books. You buy the templates, print them out, then cut, fold, and paste the sweetest little openable books, which have readable pages inside. This sort of project is made for me. Most evenings, I would work on a few. I… Read more »
In Which the Author Makes a Star
I found a pattern for a 20-sided star online (called a Moravian star). While I printed it out, Kevin went through my wrapping paper collection and chose a really lovely one made of an old German map of Europe. I cut out twenty of these…. …to turn into twenty of these. At a certain point,… Read more »
How to Make Your Very Own Awesome Mask
Jane, Unlimited is out in the world now! And I leave for my book tour momentarily, so it’s not really the time to be blogging about something completely unrelated, BUT — in case you’re a person who likes to plan ahead for Halloween, and a person who’s handy with scissors and glue, AND a person… Read more »
In Which the Author, Between Revisions, Makes Creatures Out Of Socks
I finished my revision! My next responsibility is to start the next revision (draft 7) as soon as possible. But before I do that, I’m taking just a few days off… from revising. Not from creating things. Those of you who were around the blog in January might remember Basil, the common house zebra. Well,… Read more »
The common house zebra, when frightened, hides in the sock drawer. (For camouflage.)
This week I discovered that it’s astonishingly easy for a person with minimal sewing skills to make a zebra out of socks. Meet Basil. It took me maybe two hours to make Basil, no more, no kidding. I used this wonderful sock zebra pattern/tutorial at The Sewing Directory by Caroline Short, with only minor alterations…. Read more »
