Sifting through bookmarks again - Spoonflower

Spoonflower is a place I have bookmarked many times. It is a place that seems to be eternally on my to-do list. It is a place where you can have your own designs printed on fabric and that is something I'd love to do one day. But what to print? They have tutorials to help you turn your ideas into files ready for printing with tips for how to get the best results and if you don't consider yourself much of a designer you can often buy other people's prints.

Spoonflower runs regular competitions based around a weekly theme. One of my favourites (which I obviously bookmarked) was a 'softies' theme. My favourite entry was probably this 'Fab Fox' by 'Happy Sew Lucky'. A super hero in y-fronts. (Click through to see some cute pictures on her own website if you are interested. I'm not quite sure what the protocol is around using other people's pictures if you are spruiking their websites... do you just go for it? Or do you email and ask permission? Is there a general consensus? Check our link to our Pinterest boards and I'll add a few 'pins' there.) Another cute entry was called 'Kawaii Kitchen' which I believe came in at number one. They could be some fun school holiday projects for kids who like to sew.

Monday Macrame Maybe?

I've ordered the bits and pieces to have a go at making these simple little bracelets from honestlywtf.com. I think I first saw them on Pinterest... maybe... but you all know what I'm like with bookmarks etc. A little bit of macrame on a Monday?

Update - I've actually made a couple and they are quite easy. Cheap and cheerful.

L-R - Present from my sister (from Pandora), present from my mother (unknown), and my two new handmade string bracelets.

Now to find some other coloured threads.

Bookmarks

My computer desktop is completely covered with icons and shortcuts. At times they even spill over to the invisible second screen that my computer thinks it has. And I should know better. I've done my share of tech-support when I worked at the uni. I tell myself, hey... delete or relocate one icon a day and then you'll have it under control in no time. Yep... and that happens once.

My web bookmark situation is worse. I love to 'browse' the net with at least five or six tabs open at once. When I see something I want to get back to at a later time I just drag it to the bookmarks toolbar... and it stays there... and it stays there... and I tell myself that I should delete or sort a bookmark or two each day and then it will slowly get under control. Ha! That happens once. One step forward, sixteen steps back.

Last night, when complaining to the husband that I couldn't think of anything to blog about he said to me 'What about bookmarks? Surely you can write something about bookmarks?' Fair call. I figure I might as well try going through my bookmarks and if I don't think a link is worth posting about here on the blog then it isn't worth bookmarking... more or less. I'm going to try 'A Bookmark a Day... Keeps the Hard Drive Crash Away... ' or something like that. So here goes!

A Bookmark a Day... Day 1.

Tea Towel and Tapestry Furniture by Suzie Stanford

by Mark Robinson on March 15, 2010 on the198.com

Actually this relates to a project I'm working on at the moment. Some of you already know I am trying to collect tapestries to make a floor rug out of... a bit like this one at tomandemma.wordpress.com. I'll blog about that soon enough I hope.

One of the tapestries waiting to be part of my floor rug.

Bookmark 1 - Filed under 'Craft'.