Challenges category

  • 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

  • Iron Craft 2011 – The first challenge is up!

    The first challenge for Iron Craft, Lighting the Winter Gloom, is up! Are you creative enough to join us for a year of weekly challenges? It’s not to late to join in the fun over at Iron Craft....
    Dec 30, 2010 No Comments

  • Challenge #1 – Lighting the Winter Gloom

    The holidays are just about over & most of the Christmas lights will start coming down in the next week. I really miss that sparkle especially here in Minnesota where January & February can ...
    Dec 30, 2010 5 Comments

  • Iron Craft 2011

    I interrupt this Handmade 365 Project to let you all in on next year’s project, Iron Craft. Susi, from Craftroom, & I so enjoyed the weekly challenges of Project Project Runway this ye...
    Dec 17, 2010 3 Comments

  • Are you ready for a year of crafty challenges?

    Welcome to our 2011 craft challenge Crafting connects us. Glitter glues our friendship together. If we embark on a quilting expedition, we will put on our pith helmets, and do it together. Across the ...
    Dec 17, 2010 7 Comments

  • #315 – 316 Iron Craft

    Trying to work creatively on the computer the last two days to create imagery for a new project Susi & I have planned for 2010. Look for details over the next couple of weeks. I hope lots of you ...
    Nov 12, 2010 1 Comment