Handmade Detroit

Michigan-friendly Melissa Stajda has got a new project set to debut tomorrow: The Stanley Family Lodge, a new online consignment store. Make sure to check it out tomorrow when it goes live!

The title says it all. Happy Halloween!

If you’re like me, you love to send cards out for EVERY holiday. (Yes, even Flag Day!) But if you’re a little busy right now and still want to send out some Halloween love, fear not. Try these cute Halloween cards that are sure to have your tummy craving calorie-packed sweets. Mmm, transfats…
You’ll need:
-1 package […]

The Detroit News craft blog is giving away “Sew Subversive” to the maker who can describe their hippest outfit made. Heck, give it a shot. Who doesn’t like free stuff? (That’s probably what’s left of the Spatan inside of me…)
Get all the details over at the blog.

Saturday night’s all right for zombie dancin’.

Our Creepy Carey has put on a slam dooesy of a Halloween event for the past two years. This year will feature a bunch of arty goodness and candy by the Bellyache Candy Shoppe kids. I can tell you there will be stained glass zombies, giant creepy paintings, […]

A photo I stole from Lish:

Halloween is just around the corner and the web is jampacked with fun and awesome ideas for craftin’ up. After all, it is the crafter’s holiday. Here is a ton of ideas to get you going.
Craft ideas
Thimble has been blogging about a million project links to things like Halloween trees, […]

Craft swaps are always a lot of fun. Especially when one promises to send you LOTS of ornaments for the holidays…

Check out crafty blog Cake + Pie for all the details on this exciting, yet productive, holiday swap.

Wish our Tigers well with these funnier-than-they-should-be masks over at the Freep web site. You can actually print out face masks for Saturday’s Game 1. You have to admit, these masks will get pretty funny at the bar after a few drinks and the lack of holes for your eyes… Grr, go Tigers!

The only thing that would make this gem of a craft better would be some sort of sound card that would make that “doodoodoodooododo” music that plays when Mario enters the castles trying to save Princess Toadstool. Thanks to Craft for posting this. Take a look at the original image over at Flickr.

When my mom called to tell me where I could buy glitter by the pound, I was worried. When she told me that the reason she knew this was because the teachers at her school were spending their free time coating big pumpkins in metallic glitter, I was even more concerned. Why? It sounded like […]