25 January 2006
Well, I was spoiled by the lovely Amanda. In exchange for a bird print, she offered to send me one of her frenchtoastcake prints, and look what else:
Okay, not the book. I'll get to the book later. But! She did indeed send me one of her prints, which is wonderful and cute and amazing. Also: handknit leaf earings -- knit with both wool and wire! Clever girl; I've had absolutely no luck knitting with wire. And! A little bundle of silk roving for felting. Luffly. Stroke the nice silk. And a nice note to round it all out. Thanks, Amanda!
The book is this one. One of my resolutions (a general resolution that doesn't really have anything to do with the New Year) is to buy more hand crafted items from the creative internet people. My plan was to use the money that was building up in my PayPal account -- they more I sold, the more I could buy.
But then I accidentally bought the above book, Nuku Nuku, which is a Japanese pattern book. There's an ebay seller in the UK who stocks quite a few Japanese titles, so I finally put some of my PayPal money to use. Those clever Japanese, with their beautiful, beautiful things. So now I have to sell more so I can get back to the original plan.
I'm now out of the second edition of bird prints, but I think I'll be making more soon. I also carved a stamp a couple weeks ago that I really like, but I've been ever so remiss in posting pictures of it. Soon.
I think I know the seller you mean; if you order from amazon.co.jp though, you'll save yourself about a fiver a book (although it's a real headache to find what you're looking for!)
posted by Catherine at January 25, 2006 07:45 PM
Yay for earrings!!! I hope you like them & everything & create beautiful things with your silk!!! xoxox
posted by Amanda Woodward at January 26, 2006 02:59 AM