CuriousDoodles HGTV feature

CuriousDoodles Stitchie Kits are featured on the HGTV website along with several other very talented etsy makers. If you go to the HGTV home page and click on handmade holidays, there are a lot of cool ideas to look at. Go check it out right here in the handmade kits section.

DIY Embroidery Holiday Deer Card Kit

The weather is perfect for crafting a STITCHIES kit and snuggling up by the fire this holiday season. The deer and the border pattern is screen printed in silver water based ink which looks sophisticated. There are black dots that are printed on the card that act as a pattern guide for the embroidery stitching. This would make the perfect gift for someone that has everything already, or for a crafty friend that enjoys a little project. It also looks great framed.

How does it work? First, punch the little black dots out with your needle. I prefer to start with the border first, but I recommend doing what make sense to you. Then, divide your thread into two 3-strand groups. Tie a knot and start stitching! The dots will be a guide for where to stitch. I've stitched a couple of these up and they take about 1-1.5 hours to make.

DIY STITCHIES KIT INCLUDES:

• 1 Holiday Deer Screen Printed Card on 100% recycled craft paper

• 1 green envelope (square flap)

• 2 Needles

• Quality teal embroidery floss

• Instructions

• Zip-lock bag organizer (great for on-the-go projects)

These kits are ready to ship out from my shop. Click here to order.

Pinched Earth

I love how playful this outdoor sculpture is. Scale can totally change the emotion associated with an object.

Anybody know the artist?

via We Are 1976

Story Telling on Toast

Ok Go has done it again! This inspires me to do fun personal projects. Enjoy!

Not your Grannie's Christmas Cards

I feel like a little elf lately, running my holiday workshop. These are my latest Chirstmas Card sets!
One of my all time favorite holiday poems is "Twas The Night Before Christmas," by Clement Clarke Moore. I decided to honor that poem and create these hand screen printed and carefully typeset cards. Each card, in the set of 8, contains a bit of the poem, so that when you lay them all out, you can read it in it's entirety.

Available and ready to ship from my Etsy.com shop.