by CraftyPaws | Feb 4, 2014 | Altered Items, Clean and Simple, Cutsie, Doggy Projects
A lot of crafters pride themselves on upcycling items that might otherwise be thrown away. I am one such crafter. Every time I learn about some new item that can be upcycled, I try it, and I almost always enjoy it (truth: some of the toxicity with melting plastic is a...
by CraftyPaws | Feb 2, 2014 | Altered Items, Cards and ATCs, Craft Types, Doggy Projects
I love upcycling (the process of converting trash into new products or “treasures,” with the resultant additional benefit of helping the environment). Crafters tend to be really good it it too. I hosted a “Love the Earth Challenge” in which I...
by CraftyPaws | Jan 30, 2014 | Clean and Simple, Craft Types, Doggy Projects, Drawings, Steampunk, Styles
I participated in a challenge called January Doodle Days hosted by Jamilola (YT: Poetspice) in which she asked folks to doodle something every day (at least 30 drawings for the month of January 2014). What a great motivation to just keep the drawing muscles limber! I...
by CraftyPaws | Jan 6, 2014 | Altered Items, Craft Types, Doggy Projects
Not really thinking about how long I would do the series, I started this Christmas ornament series on a whim. I didn’t make any commitments to do it for ‘X” number of days. I just started, saying I would try to do at least 1 ornament a day since I...