Last August I asked the question “Am I a professional writer and as such should I be taking myself more seriously?” Even though I answered “yes” to both,  it’s taking quite a lot of time to sink in. It’s a pretty good post and dare I say it, a good read. Yikes.

From the vault of August 2009: On Blog Writing.

This past month I’ve been contemplating the question of “am I professional writer or a blogger or is there a difference?” It’s an interesting question for me because more and more I’m writing for my living: through Craft Leftovers, Craft Leftovers Monthly, the Ames Progressive, on other websites, and various magazines. Most my day is spent writing, more than any other given activity. Does that mean I’m a full time writer? I think… Yes. It does indeed mean that.

I’m always unsure how to respond when people ask “so where do you work?” I think the easiest way to describe what I do is to say I’m a “freelance writer and illustrator”. Since realizing this and stating, “Hey, I am a writer” I’ve decided I should take my written work more seriously. I’ve started to read a lot of books on writing this past month. Granted I haven’t had time to absorb it all, but every week I think I’ve been implementing more of what I’m learning and improving bit by bit. From story structure to grammar, there are signs of improvement — I hope.

For those of you who are serious about your blog, whether you are using it as a marketing tool, networking tool, or hope to make the blog the base of your business I want to encourage your to work on your writing. I’m a formally trained painter, not writing, and being thrust into creative non fiction has been a little intimidating. I think a lot of us are in a similar place. We may be great at what we do, but not so great at communicating through written word. Or maybe have a natural knack for writing, but our grammar and spelling sets us back (cough, yeah, I know I have bad spelling and grammar issues).

Here are the three books that have already been very helpful:

Getting the Words Right: 39 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers
The Art of the Interview: A Step by Step Guide to Insightful Interviewing

I also picked up a copy of Writer’s Digest. They put out a special issue called “Novel Writing” and that has been wonderfully helpful. It gives a great overview of all the aspects of writing a longer work, from the process of writing itself to character development and dialog. It’s not in their back issues yet and I think is still out, so go swing around to your local book store and thumb through a copy.

If you are just getting started blogging, check out Diane Gillamand’s new ebook blog series: Making a Great Blog and Creating a Blog Audience. Both of which have helped me take my work more seriously.

I highly recommend you add CopyBlogger to your rss feed and read it regularly. They are putting out a lot of really high quality posts about improving your blog – both through writing and through marketing.

On to the fun stuff! Time to work on my embroidery project for Friday :)

Kristin

Usually, the day after a holiday it dawns on me, “Hey, I should post about all those neat projects I’ve come across lately.” Well, not this time. Ha! I got you this time 4th of July!

Check out these sweet projects I’m excitedly whipping together for the first 4th of July in our new home. (I’ll post about that next week and you will just have to keep guessing until then.)

Picnic Bowl Cover Strap

Out of all of them, this is my favorite. I can’t even remember where I first saw it, but I tweeted it immediately. Maya*Made shows us how to ditch the rubberband and make this wonderful reusable picnic bowl cover strap. Click here for her well documented tutorial.

The fact that she makes it from the button band of an old button up shirt is even better! You could easily alter the pattern to use any strip of fabric you have laying around. Ah fabric strips, the theme of the July issue of Craft Leftovers Monthly, I will find uses for all of you some day!

Pinwheels

These charming little beauties are fast, fun, and cheap to make. They add a bit of fun to any event and double as “flowers” if you need of a centerpiece.  Make them up in blues and reds, call yourself a patriot, and show off your grandma’s potato salad recipe–the best in the world of course.

I liked ohdeedoh’s tutorial best. Learn how to make some pinwheels by clicking here.

38 fourth of July Crafts

Of course when I googled “4th of July” and “craft” Martha Stewart was all over it. And I suppose rightly so since she and her team came up with 38 craft projects to set the mood and celebrate.

I really liked the drink umbrellas and these fun decorations. You can print them on the opposite side of misprints too. I’m always waging a war against a pile of things I printed wrong.

And of course I enjoy this nice little solution for taking your own silverware  and napkins to the potluck. I like the stripes and light blue checks because you could use those year round. I think I have some fabric very similar to that in red I can use.

So those are the 4 patriotic crafts I’ll be whipping up this week for the weekend. What’s on your list? What have you already made? Leave a comment with links!

Happy crafting!

Kristin

Food is always a battle. I love it. I hate it. I relish in it, yum yum yum, and feel guilty about it. After 5 months of not so great eating habits I’m finally getting back on track. I could talk about everything I’m doing wrong, but because I am a creature of habit, you can check out this post and it’s pretty much the same issues (it has a nice list of healthy snacks too). Eating out, not planning, eating too late–the usual.

This month I finally started cooking with real food and packing lunches again. Jason and I have gone back to our rule of eating out only once a week. And the funniest part is I’m getting back on track by taking my own advice. What advice is that? Meal plans! I knew I had posted about meal plans and snacks before, so I searched for it. I’ve just had my first successful week of cooking after using the generalist method I map out. The following was originally posted back in January earlier this year. I had such high hopes. Let’s see if I can stick with it this time around. Enjoy!

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There are so many reasons that meal plans are a great idea. The two I look to the most are that it helps to save money (if you are prepared to eat out less) and it helps to keep you on track with healthy eating (if you tend to eat out). Seeing a trend here? Yep.

When I eat out not only do I tend to over spend, but I over eat too. I have tried more meal plans than I can count. Well, okay, more than I can count on one hand. Point is that I’ve tried many solutions, from simple to complex.

The most complex was the “cook once, eat well for a week method.” Not only was the up front time and money investment huge, it was hard to translate into anything other than what the book stipulated– you know, to use it with recipes I actually like. And we ended up with way too much food, food we didn’t really care for in the first place.

Then the most simple was to just go to the grocery store whenever. Basically no plan, that was unhelpful.

And I tried some middle of the road methods with mapping it out day by day and buying to the groceries. That failed because it was too specific. And mapping out snacks and lunch? Meh. My tastes vary too much.

It was a hard balance between too much food, too little food, variety of fickle tastes, and a varying schedule.

For the past month, I’ve been listing it out on paper and the best way just sorted itself out.

After week 3 of successful meal planning, cooking said meal plan, and eating it, I’ve decided to make it official and a bit more fun.

Here is how it works:

1. List all the things you want to have on hand for breakfast, snacks, and things to pack with your leftovers for lunches (that’s what the add on means).

2. List what you like to have for sides with your dinner (could be the same or different from the lunch add-ons).

3. Dig through all your favorite recipe books and list 2 or 3 new recipes to try out. Try however many you new recipes you feel comfortable with. It’s always a good idea to try at least one new recipe each week. It makes it fun and helps expand your skills. Then list all your oldies but goodies you know by heart to fill it out.

Now here is the thing, if you want to put a day with each meal, that’s your choice. Me, I like to just have everything I need for 4 home-cooked dinners. I come home and if I have time I’ll make one of the 4, whichever I feel in the mood for. I shoot for 3 easy and one more complex. Then lunches, snack, and breakfasts are all grab n’ go.

You can download the meal plan as a pdf here.

Do you use a meal plan? What works best for you?

Last week I talked about what the zine contains, Monday covered how I come up with content each month. And today I’m going to go over the nuts and bolts of how these ideas make their way onto the printed page and get to your mailbox.

Writing and Editing

After I have all my lists, I start working through them. Contributors send me their articles around the first of the month, so their work has been proofed already. I write the articles I’ve mapped out and send them over to my friend Linda who copy edits all of it. She’s really great, like Karen, she’s volunteered her time to help me not sound like an idiot.

(patchwork book cover pictured above is just one of the fun scrappy patterns in this issue)

If I’m on schedule, I will have made all the projects for the zine before that to do list even gets made. Usually it’s a matter of converting my notes and sketches into something comprehensible. Those get sent off to Linda for copy editing too. When I get them back, I do some tech edits with fresh eyes. You know, making sure the math is right and double checking my measurements.

(Cute little owl that inspired the cover is also included in this month’s zine)

Laying it out

I use InDesign CS4 to layout the zine. It was difficult getting used to since I learned Quark first. After a few years of using it, loads of tutorials, and this book, I’m finally comfortable with it.

All the nicely edited text is dropped into InDesign just like I laid out in the paper mock up. This helps me figure out how long each article will be, and to see where I need to slim down. I often have to drop a pattern or add an article at this point.

Save. Print. I make a note in the new proof of where I want illustrations to go, what they need to convey, and what their dimensions should be. A lot of the time I end up doing some rough sketches directly on the zine proof.

Then the really fun part starts. Sure, I like writing, if I didn’t I wouldn’t have a blog. That’s the thing, I like writing but I love drawing.

Illustrating

I documented my process for making this month’s cover, so that’s what I’ll show you. It’s pretty much the same process for each illustration.

For the cover, I marked out the size it needs to be (5×7″) using a 3H pencil and taped it off with low adhesive archival tape.

I’ve been more adventurous lately and decided to collage a bit of fabric into my illustrations for the zine, especially the cover. Then I drew the main component–that super cute little owl.

I clean up the lines with an eraser and go over it with a fine tipped black marker.

Scan it

Then it switches over to working on the computer. Depending on the illustration I’ll use a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator. I draw using an Intuos4 Wacom tablet. I have the sketch and regular stylus.  For the cover, I opted to just use Photoshop.

Note: I tend to use Illustrator for drawings that need a bit more precision. I do the line drawings in Illustrator and then add color using Photoshop.

First I convert it all to Black and White using the image editing options. After that I convert it to gray scale. I’ve found that just converting to gray scale isn’t as flexible.

I create a new layer and remove any unwanted elements of the scan.

For the cover I drop in the text so I know what to draw around. You can see here the placement on that piece of fabric is pretty bad. I copy it to it’s own layer and change the opacity so it’s a lighter shade of gray and the text pops.

In another layer, I draw over my lines with the brush tool.

Another layer below that and I add color. Sometimes I scan fabric and add that in too.

Add a few more lines and I’m finished. Well, not quite, there was a lot of pushing a pulling that happened. I tend to do a few test prints to see if the gray on my screen is anywhere close to the printed version. Nope. It’s a lot darker, so back to the computer to lighten things up and darken others.

Finally I add it to the cover InDesign file, save it as a pdf and off I go.

To the Printers

I print the zine guts on my own printer, but the cover has to be printed at the local print shop. My printer doesn’t get hot enough to properly fuse the toner to the recycled grocery bag type paper and it rubs off pretty easily.

Back to the studio: I print the guts of the zine on my own printer. I use this really amazing paper that’s a little thicker than regular paper, but a little thinner than card stock. It’s 100% recycled and just slightly off white.

Assembly

Now I become a one person assembly line. I put on an audio book or some of my favorite podcasts, grab my long arm stapler, and get to work. I staple, fold, and do the final trimming.

Somewhere in all this mess of writing, illustrating, and assembly, I’ll get a bit burnt out and need a break. So I turn to another task–postage printing.

To Your Door

I print postage on these mailing labels from Uline using Endicia for Mac. The envelopes I use are the same paper as the cover card stock–100% recycled and that lovely grocery bag texture.

Each zine gets packaged up in an envelope, postage slapped on, and I drop off a huge bag of packages to the post office.

In the Shop

I use X-Cart for the Craft Leftovers shop and also sell the zines on Etsy. I’ve opted to add the July issue to the shop even though I’m waiting on the covers. The only printer that prints it right (so the toner won’t smear) is down. They usually get things fixed pretty quickly so it shouldn’t be long at all. Since you will have to wait a little bit before it gets to you, you get a pre-sale bonus! And unlike last time, the turn around will be a lot shorter. I’ll find a solution and get it out the door by Monday no problem. Maybe even Saturday if all goes well.

You can pick up the July issue here

or, if you know you want July and many more months, a subscription is the best way to go.
You save a significant amount over single issues, even with the pre-sale pricing. Subscriptions for Volume 4 coming soon to the shop!

Happy crafting!

Kristin

Hopefully this will be the last part before the finishing post. Taking your generous advice, I went with option 3. After thinking about it, the gathers with the gathered fabric would have looked frumpy for sure. I think the nice, straight cotton is perfect. Plus, once I cut it out, the landscape of flowers was just too perfect.

Oh and yes, haha, I’m not surprised if you have some pillowcases like this in your linen closet. This is part of a sheet set I aquired from a thrift store back in DeKalb. I actually used the same fabric on this apron (love it!). And this is the last flat sheet of the set.

I cut out all the pieces and realized I was faced with another dilemma, hidden side seam pockets, or ones in the front.

After puzzling about it for awhile, I decided on both and snipped out the rest of the pattern piece. I’m hoping that once the July CLM is finished, I’ll have time to finish the dress for my road trip on Saturday. Some friends and I are going to Des Moines to Market Day, the Court Street Farmer’s Market, and the Des Moines Art Festival. It will be quite the little adventure.

I do have one problem. The linen, after dyeing and washing, is a wrinkled mess. I tried ironing quite a lot and it still won’t flatten out. After doing a bit of looking around, it’s supposed to come right out if it’s fully damp first. I’ll give it a try and report back. Here is a nice write up on linen care.

I’m really enjoying this clothing sewing kick. Granted I’m not as prolific as some, but I’m pretty happy with the new garment a month pace I’m setting. Have you made any new summer pieces yet this year? Can I see? Send me links in the comments. What’s your latest favorite pattern?

Happy sewing!
Kristin

I don’t subscribe to many magazines. It usually takes buying the same one, month after month, before I think I should subscribe. “Crochet Today!” passed the test with flying colors.

Each issue is filled with a mix of garments, super cuteness, and and home decor. More than any other crochet magazine, I tend to actually want to make most of them. They also include these great articles on crochet themed ideas.

Like a great two page spread about Helping Hands. I love making for charity, but often find that there is a lack of crochet driven projects and books. This article points out quite a few–love it. And the illustrations are freaking adorable.

This issue has five great patterns for the home. I really enjoy this rug, pillow, and that bowl is great! I haven’t worked up a project like the bowl before and am looking forward to it.

There is always a unique set of projects, like this neat set of patterns for jewelry. I really like the way they’ve taken advantage of crochet’s neat properties and worked straight from the jewelry base. Like those lovely earrings and the chain necklace with the stitching into it. And the pendant is amazing! They crochet around it and keep the crystal pendant in the center.

And the cuteness! What a freaking cute “camp” crocheted food set. I know, I’m grown up. I can make smores whenever I want, but I can’t wait to make those cute little guys and add them to my studio’s collection.

Over the past 6 months, I’ve only had one issue that I’ve felt “meh” about. Even that one had a few patterns that inspired and tantalized my imagination.

Right now, it’s my favorite crochet magazine. What’s yours?

Happy crocheting!
Kristin Roach

Last week I showed you the content concepts and the general ideas behind Craft Leftovers Monthly–recycled, ad free, paid guests, patterns, goofy articles, illustrations and photos. Today I’m sharing with you how general ideas become specific patterns and articles. How does random inspiration from the blogs I read and doodles in my sketchbook become a 36 page zine each and every month?

Planning, time, and loads of list making.

Planning

It starts with a little long term planning. I pick some general themes for the next 6 months. I make a spreadsheet for each issue in Google docs. In each document, I set up the regular features and the general theme I’ve chosen.

Time

Good ideas don’t happen over night. I know that for me, it takes a long time for ideas to incubate in my mind, on the pages of my sketchbook, and finally in my lists. Thinking about content 3-6 months ahead works like a charm.

As I go about my day, I collect all the fragments that fit into those themes–snippets I see on various blogs, things I happen upon around town, random thoughts flitting through my head. All these get dropped into my sketchbook, are bookmarked, and eventually get filed away into the appropriate spreadsheet.

At the last Sew N’ Swap when I decided to whip up this cute little owl, I opted to file his template away. I saved it for the current issue because I knew exactly what the theme was for July.

In April, I made this cute little chrysanthemum broach and gave it to my mom for Mother’s Day. Even though I immediately wanted to put it in this month’s issue (it was made from fabric scraps after all), I didn’t. I knew it would be best saved for September when mums are in bloom or even next May when Mother’s Day comes around again.

Knowing what’s coming up helps me know what to include as well as exclude from the issue I’m working on. Sometimes the issue isn’t having too few ideas, it’s having too many. There just isn’t room for everything each month. And that brings me to the next point.

Process of Elimination

About two weeks before an issue is due out (about the second week of each month) I make the decision on what to include and what to exclude. I want each issue to pack a punch, to really be the best it can. And for that I have to do a bit of weeding.

I make sure that everything that doesn’t go along with this month’s theme is really awesome and really needs to be included. I also double check my page count and get it right down to those 36 pages.

Granted, I keep a few ideas on the side, just in case I need them.

You know how it is, you think it’s the most amazing idea. When you go to actually make it, and it’s horrible. So instead of struggling with it, I’ve learned to keep a list of alternates. Sometimes I need an alternate simply because an article or pattern comes up a page shorter than I thought. It’s good to have some extra ideas on the back burner.

Checking off the to do list

Then once I’ve puzzled out what I want the issue to include, I write up the most massive to do list. I commit to paper each and every step of each and every part of the issue. For me, getting to cross of each step is so satisfying.

Just like any project, there comes a point where I start to flounder. I get stuck on “what comes next” or “I don’t feel like doing X.” With a complete to do list, I know there are about 100 other steps I can take that will continue the march toward the finish line. I can be from writing up the word list for the word find or mapping out what goes where.

And then it’s really a matter of just going through the to do list. Check, check, check. On it goes. And at the end, I’m finished.

I’ve noticed time and again that the months I skip this step are the months I falter. I’m late, stressed, or feel overwhelmed. The months I have my list right from the start? I am right on track and get it finished right on time, sometimes even a little early.

Does all this sound interesting to you? You can pick up a subscription from the Craft Leftovers Shop here or if Etsy is your main dish, you can go here.

So last time I talked about what the zine contains, today I’ve covered how I come up with content each month. Wednesday I’m going to go over the nuts and bolts of how these ideas make their way onto the printed page and get to your mailbox. And just as exciting as that, come Wednesday, the July issue will be fresh off the presses and in the shop!

Happy crafting!
Kristin

I have been doing a lot of clothing sewing lately and I keep skipping parts of the pattern and messing things up on accident (shhhh). Thankfully, I’m pretty good at jimmy rigging and “enhancing” patterns.

On my last dress: hello there:

I forgot to sew the bodice right sides together and turn it out before top stitching, so I was left with all these crazy raw edges, woops. I could have redone it, but once it happened it was like “well, this would look better with a little trim anyway.”

Here is a quick easy way to add a bias tape trim to a raw edge to finish it off and make it look great.

Pin the trim to the wrong side of your neckline with the finished edge facing in:

Fold the cut end of the bias tape under so when you flip it over it will be tucked under.

Top stitch the bias tape to the neckline, work as close to the edge of the bias tape as you can.

Fold the bias tape over to the right side and pin in place.

I tend to give a few extra pins to the area where the bias tape ends overlap.

Top stitch the bias tape again and you are all set. Check out how nice that looks.

I just needed to finished up the other side and I was all set.

::Quick Tips::

Hide the bias tape overlap at the back of your neck, or if an arm hole, at your underarm.

Press the bias tape if it’s wrinkly. And press the bias tape when you do the final top stitching if it’s being difficult.

If you iron the piece with the pins in, make sure you are using stainless steal pins and not the ones with the plastic heads (melting, yuck!).

Happy stitching!
Kristin Roach

It’s amazing how resistant I can become to an idea out of sheer laziness. Once I finally get around to checking it out, I wonder how I got on without it in the first place. My sister has been preaching the wonders of allrecipes.com for years now. Literally years. When did I finally got around to looking up a recipe and then actually making said recipe? Just a few months ago.

What is Allrecipes.com? I know a lot of you have been using it for awhile and are thinking, “Duh, Kristin.” For those of you who haven’t, it’s a website of user submitted and user rated recipes.

You can search by course, ingredient, or style of dish. Recipes are then rated by the people who try them. So you don’t get just a database of recipes. You also get alternatives, mess ups, clarifications, and general comments. Everything is rated, so you can know at least someone else has tried it. It takes a lot of the unknown out of trying a new recipe. Sure you could mess it up, but more often than not, it will turn out just fine.

On top of the comments and ratings, there is also the search function. I love this! This is how it relates to the Thrift Kitchen. At the end of each week, the day before grocery day, there are always that random veggie or piece of something that was never used. Say all you have is a green paper and some rice. What in the world to make?

Click the “Ingredients” search and plug in what you have and what you don’t want. You can enter in pepper, but exclude steak. (Pepper steak will come up and for this meal we don’t have any on hand). Maybe we have rice and onion.

You know what comes up? 140 potential recipes, but what caught my eye was these stuffed peppers. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that to begin with. That’s the beauty of it. You search and can create your meal in no time.

I do the same thing with the sale flier from the grocery store too. I just plug in what’s on sale and make up my meal plan around that. Ingenious!

My sister always brings these great dishes to potlucks, family gatherings, and get togethers. Every time I ask, “Where did you get this recipe? It’s delicious.” She nicely replies, “Allrecipes.com.” Maybe now I’ll be saying the same thing.

Oh and a fun side note, if you ever want to dabble in French cooking, there is an allrecipes.fr. It’s written all in french and contains all french dishes–delicious! A few friends and I are going to figure out a few of the recipes and give them a try. It should be a fun time.

Happy meal planning!

Kristin Roach

Each time I’m wrapping up Craft Leftovers Monthly, I’m pleasantly surprised to realize, “Hey, this is my job.” Thanks so much for making this possible by subscribing and letting me visit your mailbox each month. I want to share with you what Craft Leftovers Monthly is all about and how it comes together each month.

Uniquely me

Craft Leftovers Monthly is unlike any other craft magazine you will ever get. While I invite contributors into the zine each month, it remains uniquely me. I personally write, photograph, and illustrate about 80% of the zine each month. The contributors are more like special guests where in standard magazines contributors are a bulk of the content. I think of it like inviting a guest instructor to my creative group to demonstrate a skill that isn’t my specialty. Just like any instructor, I think it’s important to pay them for their time. I work out trades with some contributors but they always are offered as much as I can possibly pay for their work.

Freedom from ads

Another thing that’s not standard is that it’s ad free–save for the half-page trade with Fanie for the Crafty Life comic. I’m hoping it will stay that way. I’m serious when I say it’s 36 pages of crafty goodness. Okay, maybe it’s about 33 because I have the index, copyright, and acknowledgments. You get a lot of creative content in a nice little package because there aren’t any extraneous ad pages in there. When you buy Craft Leftovers Monthly, you are paying for it to be printed and sent out the door–not the advertisers.

Loads of patterns

Each issue averages around 3-4 patterns for sewing, knitting, crochet, paper craft, and/or other miscellaneous craft techniques depending on the month’s theme. Quite often there are more patterns than that. For instance, last month there was the MAP bag (Museum approved purse), the postal clutch, paper mache masks, and sand casting with plaster of paris.

Loads of fun articles and adventures and stories and puzzles

That’s not even including the great article by Fanie on traveling in Montreal or Su’s traveling post art article. To add a little fun, I sprinkle in random stories from childhood (like the story about soggy sandwiches and the smokey mountains on my family vacation) and craft related wordfinds, crosswords, and/or coloring pages. For me, it’s a huge indulgence in the fun things in life.

Bonuses

Every once and awhile I get an idea in my head to include some extras. In the summer issue, everyone got a kit for the Paper Plaited basket + minizine of the pattern. Su offered up her Zine Bomb minizine to include with this issue too! How did I fit that in there? I added a special edition pocket for the first 100 issues. It doesn’t happen every month, but it seems to be more often that I’m slipping a little something something in there for subscribers.

The July issue is packed

The July issue is looking to be just as packed as the summer. I have two wonderful ladies sharing work with us. There’s a tutorial for an elegant scrap fabric necklace, a huswife and needlecase. I’m adding a tutorial on strip quilting, a wrist cuff, a pot holder, and a cute little owl I made at the last Sew ‘n’ Swap. So what is that? Six tutorials and patterns in just one little zine. I’m really looking forward to illustrating this issue with so many fun ideas flowing into it. It will include a fun interview with Leethal about her work, her creative process and working with recycled goods. She is amazing and it will be a delight to read about her and include some of her great photos.

100% recycled and leftover

Using what’s on hand, being conscious of the environment are such important things to me. I’ve worked hard to find a supplier of 100% recycled paper. The cover, the pages the zine is printed on, and even the envelopes and subscription cards are 100% recycled paper. It’s a little more expensive for me and you, but it’s so worth it to me and I hope to you too.

Even the wholesale packets are leftovers. The boxes are made from leftover packaging and the binding from misprinted labels. It’s kind of funny, every month I forget to switch out the postage labels back to the guts paper and print a whole issue on postage labels. I use these fun little boxes made with these labels to showcase CLM to wholesalers.

Quite a few people have asked me how I come up with a zine full of ideas each and every month. Well, I’ve decided to write it up. Check back Monday for part two of the Making of Craft Leftovers Monthly.

Happy Crafting!
Kristin