Blog

An Inspired Advent: Day 9

Baked goods abound this time of year (though they may not always be welcome). Thought and care are poured into handmade gifts, and that is especially true of home cooking. Preparing delicious food ...

An Inspired Advent: Day 7

Aside from selecting just the right gift for each person on your list, wrapping those gifts seems to be the most stressful. Studio Carta is the Boston studio and storefront of Angela Liguori, a boo...

An Inspired Advent: Day 5

Over the years, one of my favorite things at Christmas has been making special gift tags to top the packages I give to my family. I dump my big box of scrapbooking supplies (that I, incidentally, n...

An Inspired Advent: Day 4

Throwback Thursday to Infinity! Throwback Thursday affords us the liberty of re-issuing an older post…especially since it gets everyone ready for our Infinity Scarf Class this coming Wednesday, Dec...

An Inspiring Advent: Day 2

Day 2: Ready the guest room! If your ironing board is happily situated in the middle of your guest room AND you have company coming for the holidays…what do you do? You either need to move it or dr...

An Inspiring Advent: Day 1

Despite the fact that Debbie and I write brilliant blogs…ahem…we don’t do them as often as we probably “should.” We, of course, would rather be making something than writing about it. Nonetheless, ...

Our 4th Birthday + Thanksgiving =

…our year of thanks! Those gratitude challenges that graced Facebook at the end of summer are so “last-month,” but that’s when I started to contemplate this blog post. I, for one, really enjoyed re...

Handmade Gift : Threadfollower Embroidered French Barrette Kit

We received some new threadfollower hand-stitching kits is the mail last week! Not only did we re-stock the handstitch animal kits that we have, we’ve got some new ones, too! My favorite is the wha...

Upcoming Class : French Cartonnage Notepad Holder

We’ve got a new class coming up!!! Saturday, December 7, which coincides with the ArtWalk in Little Italy, we will once again host Betsy Begue as she instructs us in the beautiful art of French Car...

That Crazy Dress I Made

So last week I mentioned a green Christmas tree dress I was making. Why would I be making a Christmas tree dress? Because it’s hilarious, that’s why. Sorry, I had to take this at night! This weeken...