craft + activism = craftivism.

There are few things I love more than seeing the craftivism love spread to other countries, which means I was super excited to see that there was a blog post today over at

So happily I came across this post earlier today, which is an article I was interviewed for last year. This article is written by the incredibly lovely Brazilian journalist, Priscilla Santos, who interviewed me (along with Faythe Levine) for an article a few years ago for Vida Simples magazine. (Original article here and here.) Translation [...]

For anyone who is making their holiday crafts by hand, this may ring a bell*…. (by Franklin Habit) If the above doesn’t scare you off, I have a nice and easy pattern for fingerless gloves in Craft Hope. As someone who has given these as gifts, I can tell you that they have always been [...]

As happens often, I have a new crafty crush, Ann Wizer. How can you not be enamored of someone who writes that: “instead of making more waste, we REUSE waste. Instead of employing highly skilled experts, we TRAIN the unskilled. The aim is not to make more stuff quickly and cheaply, but to address problems [...]

This summer is all about the puppies. Since you have already met my new main man Ari here, I’d like to introduce my new friend Suki. She is almost as wide as she is long. Suki is the first baby bulldog I have ever met in person despite many of my family being University of [...]