Collected...Jenni as Guest Blogger

Click the pic and head over to Collectitude and take a peek at my little collection curated for wanelo/collectitude.

I'd love to hear your comments!

xxoo

jenni

Crafty Lady Shout Out

So dear Melissa of SewSweetStitches Etsy fame made her first treasury (yay!) and featured my sassy passport covers. But awesomer than that? She blogged about it...and gave lil ol me a huge shout out.

Go take a look--and stay a while because she's awesome. But don't forget to come back to me. :)

http://sewsweetstitches.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-first-real-treasury-and-hipster.html

xxoo
jenni

Must Haves for the Literate Cook

Today, I wish my dream kitchen were a bit less cluttered and I were a bit more perfect in elements of housewifery. Instead of scouring the sink, today I have scoured the internet for inspiring kitchen delights.

This book is in fact delightful...

Oh, Anna Maria, you've gone and made perfection even more perfect!

xxoo

jenni

Adventures in Bleaching and Overdyeing

After I read a Tula Pink blog posting about "systematically destroy[ing]" the awesome fabric lines Plume and Neptune, I was inspired to revisit my fun costume design days in college where I did in fact systematically destroy fabric on a regular basis.

Now, I didn't have the heart to destroy awesome Tula Pink fabric or other fabulous (read: kind of spendy) quilting fabrics, so I took something that was kind of already destroyed.

You see, a while back I washed some light-colored cotton fabric with a rogue dark item of...something. I have no idea what I washed with this load of lights. No other fabric was hurt except this funky zebra print (probably thanks to my Shout Color Catchers I always put in as a prophylactic measure).

My adventures in fabric bleaching failed miserably. I'll chronicle the super awesome colorstay powers of Michael Miller fabric on a forthcoming post.

Below are my adventures in overdyeing...

Behold: the sad, stained zebra print fabric I had such high hopes for...see that big fat splotch of pink? (There are many splotches.) Let's fill up the washer with hot water and dump in some Rit, because, honestly, like I want another pot to clean if I use the "stovetop" method!

Thirty minutes of agitation is what the directions suggest. I went rogue and let it soak for about 15 minutes before putting it through the longest cycle on my beloved washer...let it spin. And rinse. And rinse again until the water ran clear.

Behold: the awesomeness that is my overdyed magenta zebra quilting cotton. Huzzah!

Success!

xxoo

jenni