Jennifer Andrew

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wintery felt bows

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I have tried crocheting bows or making them out of yarn but they’re never quite how I want them to be, so I bought some felt yesterday (sooo cheap), and I followed a tutorial by the moonlit nest!

This one is my favorite so far, because I used fabric to tie it together instead of felt. Fabric = endless possibilities. 
As of now, I have only made these grey ones and a red one. While picking out the felt squares, I was feeling wintery and thinking only of what I would wear in my hair. Really, I should have been thinking about funky color combinations and the integration of fabric. 

This weekend I am going home for my sister’s 8th birthday. We’re going to Discovery Kingdom tomorrow which is always a mixed-feelings kinda place. Childhood memories. Cute animals. But at the same time, these animals are probably miserable. Anyway, it’s no time to be an activist :)
Also, tonight I’m seeing The Help! Has anyone else seen it? I think it looks amazing. 

weekly faves

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This week has been really, really good in such a simple way. I have, by some miracle, been waking up early without a problem. My classes are interesting and relevant. My room is adorable since my roommate and I happen to have the same taste in themes and colors. I love these last days of summer. I love 30 day shred and long walks with my roommates. I love having a low key schedule.

I also love:

“summer color” paper from Joann’s
Paint Swatch Box Tutorial from How About Orange

the moonlit nest’s felt bow tutorial

Peanut Butter Honey Bees from Totally Tots

 Rose Brooches from Vintage Ties tutorial from Little owl lucky

renegade craft fair (this weekend!)

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It is almost time for my very favorite craft fair!

I have been to the Renegade Craft Fair two times, both for the winter sale. The summer fair is this Saturday and Sunday, and I will be there on Sunday. I hope to find a lot of pretty things! It’s great timing too, because I have about 10 birthdays of friends and family coming up soon.

Here are some pictures of my Renegade experience last December. I got carried away, but I have forgiven myself. How can you not be carried away when you’re surrounded by 200+ handcraft vendors?

You know how I feel about honeycombs. This is from The Harbinger Co. 
Necklace is from The Weekend Store. GAAHH. Go look at their stuff, it is all gorgeous, especially the map jewelry. 

I can’t remember where any of these are from :( but I love them.

Someday I want to sell stuff at a craft fair. I can never stick with a project long enough to make a bunch of the same item. But one of these days, I will be selling honey and ceramics. You just wait. :)

I’ll be back with Summer ’11 Renegade Craft pictures. Hooray!!

Update:


Change of plans! I didn’t end up going to the fair this year :( Sara and I drove around for literally an hour or two, hoping for a parking space but we had no luck. I hope that next year, three large events are not scheduled to be in the same parking lot area on the same day.

boxes & clothespins

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Today I decided to do some organizing. While sorting out my boxes of paper scraps, I put some Anthropologie catalogues to good use and mod podged away:

Paper crafts within paper crafts :)

I also thought I should do something about my tangled embroidery floss. I don’t know how to embroider anything, but I do know how to make friendship bracelets. I was inspired to use clothespins for yarn and floss after seeing a cute picture on Pinterest, which I found is from Naturally Dyeing. (amazing blog, btw)

Embroidery floss is so much more easy to untangle than yarn. When I untangle yarn, I just end up cutting it and making scraps.

What a colorful day. I love organizing once I get started. Oh, and I even managed to tackle Yarn Monster! For those of you who don’t know who that is… it’s just this big mess of yarn that will take me a year to untangle. I have introduced it to about three people and it is super embarrassing.

Tomorrow, my mom and I are going to Carmel and we are staying with a friend. Yay! I can’t wait to go back to La Bicyclette and to spend time by the ocean, even though it might be freezing.

pretty remnants, part I

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At the Whole Earth Festival in May I bought this really cute headband for three dollars:

The quality isn’t great, but I love the pattern. After this, I got really inspired to make things out of fabric, such as headbands, flowers, etc. Only, it has been quite the journey finding any remnants of pretty fabric at all. In high school, I found a bunch of fabric scraps from Michael’s. They were cute and floral, but I didn’t have a real use for them. I covered a journal with one piece, and I sewed a little heart to the inside of a jacket which traveled throughout my group of friends. That was an embarrassing time of life, but I thought this blog could use a little self-disclosure :) there ya go. I had a sisterhood, indeed.

Anyway, last week I went to Jo-Ann’s, Michael’s, and even the super scary Walmart in my hometown, but there were no cheap scraps to be found. I started looking on Amazon when I finally remembered faithful Etsy! Duh.

I ended up finding a ton of neat, affordable bags of scraps, but I worried that I wouldn’t receive any patterns I especially loved since they were all random.

But out of nowhere came a wonderful shop called Island Supplies with the prettiest selection ever.

These are all leftovers from silk saris. They will be sent to me from Spain and the shipping is only three dollars. The lady who makes them is named Norma and when I checked the shop today, it had been restocked! Best. Etsy. Ever. Another great thing is they were shipped just a few days after I purchased them.

Oh, and I got ribbon too! I think this will come in handy in many ways.

PS. After I bought this stuff (no regrets), my mom informed me that she wasn’t “emotionally attached” to many of her African-style sarans. They have really pretty patterns and I may be able to use them! And that will be part two.

summertime countdown part II

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Today, I am finished with finals and papers and it is only day three of the week! But I have to tell you that studying was kind of fun. It involved a lot of singing, dancing, and looking at pictures of baby animals on Pinterest (which I have found is a great way of coping). Now that it’s over, I can finally think about summertime!!! Here is a list of what I plan to do:

1. Watercolor


I didn’t inherit my grandma’s watercoloring gene, so all I know how to do is make thumbprints and swipe a brush across a piece of paper. But it should be really fun!

2. Learn the kalimba


At the festival on Mother’s Day, I helped my mom buy a big kalimba with turtles engraved in it. It has a lower pitch, and it sounds super beautiful! I would like to perfect some songs. Not complex ones, but just “O Holy Night” and “Moon River.” Stuff like that. 

3. Paint my room
(one of these colors? or a peachier one)

4. Study for the comp a whole year early? Maybe I will…



5. Drink out of this mug
from my favorite potter @ whole earth
6. Carry my new hemp backpack around
and other important things :) I really just wanted to show you everything I bought at the Whole Earth Festival.


Summer does not officially start until Sunday night. Until then, I’ll be doing checkouts in the apartments, attending the 10:00pm midnight breakfast tonight (so much koinonia, I love it), and creating a megabed in the living room with my dear roommate Ashley.


I am so excited to learn a lot of new things this summer and see beautiful places. Speaking of beautiful places, in exactly one week I will be on a plane to Europe. Asghfjsdkl :) 
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