Iron Craft category

  • Iron Crafters in the News

    Congrats to Claire of Poopscape who’s wonderful negative lamps she made for Challenge #1 were featured on Craft today.She’s posted a tutorial on how to make them on her blog. If any of you...
    Jan 07, 2011 4 Comments

  • Challenge #1 Round-Up Part 2

    The great projects for Challenge 1, Lighting the Winter Gloom, just continue to roll in… Click any picture to see it larger & read more. If you are not reading this post...
    Jan 07, 2011 No Comments

  • Challenge #2: Stay Warm!

    For our second challenge, we will be making something oh so functional. !! It is time to make a ‘draft dodger’ or a ‘door snake’. (this one is from Simple Organic) If you li...
    Jan 06, 2011 7 Comments

  • Sparkling light

    The first week of Iron Craft brought me to a wall of anticipation. I set the bar so high for myself that I was ready to rewire the whole house. I had to dial it down a notch. And then, in an 11th hou...
    Jan 05, 2011 No Comments

  • Challenge #1 Round-Up Part 1

    We decided to play a little game in the New Year. To stretch ourselves and try new things together. We invited others to join. The submissions are in for the first challenge. We are both blown away...
    Jan 05, 2011 6 Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge #1 – Iced Willow Branch Candleholder

    The first challenge for Iron Craft was to create something to light the winter gloom. My project was inspired by a candle Matt & I saw in a store this summer. It was one of those things we both l...
    Jan 05, 2011 12 Comments

  • Are you ready for Challenge 1 (and other important stuff)

    First, tomorrow is the posting date for Challenge #1 Lighting the Winter Gloom! How is everyone doing? I’m personally about 3/4 done & am pretty happy with the results so far. I c...
    Jan 04, 2011 2 Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge, Week 1

    The first Challenge was posted to Iron Craft. It is a project that ‘brings in the light’. The inauguration of the site has me all in knots. I was thinking about turning something into ...
    Jan 03, 2011 No Comments

  • Iron Craft Challenge #1 – Workroom

    For the first Iron Craft challenge we have to create thing to bring light to the winter gloom. Here are the supplies I’m looking at using so far, willow branches (our CSA sent them to us two yea...
    Jan 03, 2011 No Comments

  • Crafting within the lines?

    Yesterday, I received an email from Manisha of Midwest Lotus that got me to thinking & I thought I’d share some of those thoughts with all of you. She was worried about her project for the ...
    Jan 01, 2011 2 Comments