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| Britex Fabrics Sale in SF, Monday October 12th My favorite fabric store in San Francisco, Britex Fabrics (146 Geary Street, SF, CA. 94108) is having their huge fall sale where all fabrics, notions, and remnants are 30% off. I went last year to get fabric and supplies to make doggie Halloween costumes, and ended up getting a bunch of other great things for my craft stash. Find out more about the sale on the Britex blog.Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Old-fashioned games and crafts highlight festival (The Standard-Times) MIDDLEBORO — Old-fashioned games and crafts for young people will be ongoing throughout the day at Middleboro's 340th anniversary Heritage Festival. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Smile Crocodile! This crocodile softie from Laura at We Wilsons brings a big, toothy grin to my face. It's sheer genius to take rickrack and a zipper and use them for what they are surely longing to be used for. Best of all, she's offering the pattern for free if you upload a photo of something you made from one of her patterns to the We Wilsons Flickr pool!The offer stands until December 14th, so hop on over to her site for her free tutorials (like the dust mitt tutorial, the swatch frog that uses every scrap of a fabric swatch, or her kangaroo pocket tutorial), or head over to her Etsy shop where you can buy her adorable patterns like this giraffe, this flying pig or this flip doll. If you're feeling lazy, she even has some plush kitsRead this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Ask CRAFT: Disposing of Hazardous Chemicals If you have a question for Ask CRAFT, shoot me an email at becky@craftzine.com, or drop us a note on Twitter! We'd love to answer your crafty questions on any topic: technique, projects, crafty culture, or anything else! Each week the answers are here; include your name, where you're from, and your website or blog if you have one!Michelle Kempner in NYC writes in: A friend left me art supplies when she moved cross country and I have been lugging them around from apartment to apartment ever since. Now I am moving across the country and I need to get rid of them. The only problem is that I am not sure how to get rid of them. The supplies she left me with are things like Stand Oil, acrylic latex paint, turpenoid, gamsol, workable fixatif, spray mount and spray paint. What should I do?Most county hazardous waste facilities have at least one day a month when you can drop off these materials, sometimes for a small fee. Look up each one of your chemicals to see if it's safe for the drain. For example, photo developer and stop bath are relatively innocuous (but check out advice for neutralizing them before dumping down the drain), while fixer contains heavy metals and should, under no circumstances, be poured down the drain. Since Michelle lives in New York City, she can call the city information line (311) and ask for advice. Your city may have a similar service! I found info at the nycwastele$$ site about dropping off the latex paint, but they don't accept the other chemicals Michelle listed. Since regulations and pick-up/drop-off services vary by city, county, and state, the best generic advice I can give is to look up "hazardous waste disposal" plus your location when searching online. If you can't find a website that gives you the details, look for a hazardous waste phone number to call and ask what to do.If your chemicals are still good, try listing them on a service like Craigslist or contacting your local art school to see if any starving artists might benefit from your turpenoid and stand oil before throwing them away. Your local university art department will know how to dispose of these chemicals, too, and might let you piggyback on their end-of-semester cleanup if you know who to ask.I wish there were one site I could direct Michelle and you all to that would tell you exactly how to dispose of every chemical in every state, but the truth is that hazardous waste disposal regulations vary based on location, so the best I can offer is some search engine keywords and general recycling principles to get you started. Do you have advice for Michelle and others looking to safely dispose of hazardous chemicals? Post them up in the comments.(Image: chemical shelves, a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike image from kevin mullet's Flickr stream)Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Brown Butter Frosting Madelines I had a craving for sweets last night, but hardly any time to make a batch of cookies from scratch. Instead, I covered store bought madeleines with the brown butter glaze from the Martha Stewart website. I just whipped up the super simple frosting, dunked each cookie in the bowl, then laid them out on waxed paper to dry. Lastly, I covered the cookies with crushed pecans. Delicious! They turned out so well that I think I'll bust these out for Valentine's Day next month!Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |