This past year Diane of the CraftyPod and I decided to collaborate on a short and sweet little ebook on what to do with those leftovers related to giving gifts… 5 months later this amazing ebook has turned in to a 63 page resource on paper making, collaging with fabric, and combining that annoying curling [...]

I’m happy to tell you that despite an ice storm, Craft Leftovers Monthly is in the shop! You can get this months issue here or sign up for a subscription here. This month is full of great tutorials, articles, and of course, illustrations! Fanie of Art vs Craft is now a regular contributor of Craft [...]

It’s been such a long time coming, I finally have a studio/office outside of the home! I am so happy and have been hard at work all day already I love how life works. I take the time to really clean up and reorganize my studio and less than a month later move my studio [...]

When I showed my friend Linda the new embroidery set, she started laughing and said “It’s Jack the Ripper”. So I painted this one up just for her. I Wasn’t originally intending to do painted illustrations of all the Crafty Buddies, but now I think I will. You can get the first embroidery set in [...]

I had a lot of fun putting together a set of embroidery designs this week! I started out with this illustration and decided it would be really fun to do a set of embroidery patterns. They are now available in the Kro Studio shop! I’m looking for printer that will make some high quality prints of [...]

I have been making a lot of headway clearing space for the things I love by getting rid of the things I’m “meh” about. Books are a hard topic for me because I love them so much in general and it’s taken me a long time to realize I don’t have to love each and [...]

October is such a great month to write a zine for – fall is so close, a touch of halloween, and the last bit of running around outside. Learn about halloweens past, my mom’s adventure making costumes for me and my sister, folk lore, fairy houses, paper leaf garlands, and even stamp projects using out [...]

Well well well, there are a few kits that have just not moved over the last season – or more – and I’ve marked them all down by 10 – 40% off to get them cleaned out of the shop. I also have a bunch of new kits that I’m adding over the next few [...]

Well, I’ve had quite a huge pile of wips building up over the last 6 months and I decided to go through my yarn ones today and try to figure out my plan of attack – getting them finished up and out of the basket so I can start wearing them around. It’s funny that [...]

I finally gave making my own charcoal a shot and it worked out great! I used some doll rod scraps from another project to make some charcoal for myself. I haven’t drawn with it yet though, but my test marks seem very nice. I also used a reject whittled crochet hook too – the funnest [...]