Category: Crafts
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Christmas Shopping!
If you are shopping for Christmas, I have wares for you. You can check out books for sale, here, and you’ll find mine among them – Possum Creek Massacre is on sale for the first time over the long weekend. There are a bunch of other books, too, perfect for weightless gifts for all…
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Handkerchiefs
The Ginja Ninja asked the other day, as we were out together for something else, if I would please take her to the flea market. I knew what she meant – we live a few miles from two of the largest flea markets in the world, but that’s not where she wanted to go. They…
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C(ute)thulhu amigurumi free pattern
This pattern belongs to me, please do not resell it, but you can sell the products you make as long as you credit me. Please visit me at: www.facebook.com/PoisonousFun/ Hi! Welcome to the pattern! This is the pattern I use to make big and small Cutethulus. I use all different types of yarn and hooks…
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Introducing Poisonous Fun
And now for something a bit different. Oh, who am I kidding? My kids are a lot different. Poisonous Fun is my daughter’s teeny tiny new business. The Ginja Ninja has a fair amount of down time on her hands while she’s at college, since she’s relying on parents for transport and our schedule isn’t…
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Musing on Gifts
I’ve been getting ready for a flying visit from friends, and as I was preparing the house for eyes other than family, and baking because my love language is ‘have you eaten? Here, have a cookie.’ I was also thinking about gifts, and their impact on our lives. It’s not easy to give meaningful gifts…
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Just Weeds
I did something yesterday I haven’t done in years. It’s a thing I’ve done since I was a teen, but since the move to Ohio, I haven’t had the room. Some habits, though, just don’t die. I picked weeds for the table. See, the Otaku Princess gave me a vase for Christmas. She thought it…
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How to Make Butterfly Hairsticks
With my long hair, I tend to wear it twisted up and back. I’ve found that the plastic clips break, metal ones are expensive (and I tend to lose them). I do wind up using pencils and paintbrushes as hairsticks rather a lot, and sometimes I just want something fun and fancier. I made these…