Design by Night

Come visit me in my hood this Saturday at the 17th Annual Hamilton Street Festival. The festival and classic car show features two stages with all -day music, dance and martial arts performances, cars, craft and food vendors.

Saturday July 31st
11:00 a.m. to 8: p.m.
Harford Road at Hamilton Ave

I decided that it would be fun to wear an over the top hair piece when I work at craft shows. Something a little extra so people remember me, I like crazy so why not? Little did I know what impression I would make!

Recently I was contacted by a customer from Pile of Craft. "I bought one of your pieces at the Pile of Craft Artshow to wear at my birthday party. But I can't stop thinking about the doll leg crown that you were wearing…Any way, how would you like to fashion me a wild and wonderful birthday crown! Something like what you were wearing at the show. My dress is pink and the theme if anything is southern, as I am from Lousiana. "

Make something completely wild and crazy...well twist my arm! Knowing that she is from Lousiana but now lives in Baltimore I gave here headband a bit of Big Easy meets Bmore flair! See for yourselves:

Come visit me at the Charm City Craft Mafia's 4th annual Pile Of Craft!

A one-of-a-kind craft fair for Baltimore, featuring 40+ of the country's best
handmade crafters selling their own housewares, stationary,
screenprinted & sewn apparel, jewelry, handbags, hats, knit items,
woven scarves, plush toys, ceramics, comic books, prints, paintings
and more! Support handmade and local artists and meet them in person!
In addition to having the area's most unique shopping, Pile Of Craft
will also feature DIY printmaking demonstrations from Baltimore's
brand new community printmaking facility, Baltimore Print Studios; a
raffle basket FULL of donated items from Craft Mafia vendors to
benefit local non-profit library/learning resource/all-round-gem:
Village Learning Place; and tasty snacks and coffee from local earth-
friendly coffee shop & bookstore Red Emma's!

Pile of Craft is absolutely free to attend and open to all ages.
June 26th 10-5pm
2640 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

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…or in my case lots of daisies!Inspired by some recent trips to the flower mart, I decided to cultivate some new fabric flowers in my crafts. Daisies are one of my favorite flowers, especially gerber daisies with their bright colors. So after a little experimentation and some research, up popped some daisies.
A trip to my favorite thrift store provided some great re-purposed fabric in colorful stripes, polka-dots and other patterns. Others were sewn out of recycled fabric sample swatches. Not only did I get to play with patterns but I made my first fabric covered button (which was remarkably easy).These playful flowers feature duel backs so they can be used as a brooch or a hair clip.

Come visit me this weekend at the Maryland Faerie Festival! I will be dressed in my Faerie finest and selling whimsical handmade crowns, hats and hair pieces!

The festival is Saturday and Sunday May 15th and 16th from 10 AM to 6 PM in the Patuxent 4H Center in Upper Marlboro, MD.

The Maryland Faerie Festival provides an atmosphere and entertainment inspired by Faerie folklore and literature. Join fairies of all shapes and sizes along with vendors and artists in the celebration of Unicorns, this year's theme. Featuring new surprises for children of all ages, with Faerie Mushroom Checkers and Rip Van Winkle Bowling. Enjoy the new and expanded Labyrinth. Look for more intrigue and excitement from the Faerie Treasure Hunt or meet Faerie Royalty. The Maryland Faerie Festival features many vendors, artists, and performances surrounding the theme of unicorns.

For more information visit www.marylandfaeriefestival.org.

For years my husband and I have debated who I love more, my dogs or him. I have presented argument after argument on how much I love my husband, trying to stack in favor of my husband over the dogs. But I fear that the answer to the long debated argument has come to an end recently.

In my living room hangs—not a portrait of my beloved husband—but a portrait of my first true love, my dog Spanky. So okay, I finally admit YES I love my dogs more than my husband. Luckily, my husband doesn't read my blog but if he does he can take a little comfort in the fact that he got me the perfect gift.

The commissioned painting of Spanky was painted by an artist named Seann Vicente. You can find her work at www.studiosrv.com. I had seen her work on Etsy and fell in love with her colorful pet portraits.
For my birthday, my husband commissioned a painting. Basically all he had to do was contact her and send a picture of the animal...a little while later we recieved the artwork in the mail. Speaking fr…

In the winter months between the cold and the dark I often find myself looking for comfort food. Well to me nothing is more comfortable than a good piece of pie. So here is a little shout out to my favorite dessert in an Etsy way.


Cakes, Cherry Pie and Cheesecake, OH MY! Who can resist baking up or should I say sewing up these sweet treats using a pattern from Little Crickets


It's Naturally Delicious and won't go straight to your ass! These Sweet Little Pumpkin Pie's made out of wool from Fair Trade Family will satisfy anyone's cravings


Perhaps I wouldn't have to go to Weight Watchers if I would have just satisfied my urge for Blueberry Pie with this deliciously scented Blueberry Pie soy candle from Old Pond Mill


Show your pie pride by wearing these delectable Lemon Meringue Pie Earrings from Light Blue Square (

All these treats are sure to satisfy and no extra time on the treadmill required!