Craftsy is Now BluPrint: And We Couldn’t Be More Excited!

July 18, 2018July 18, 2018Leave a comment

Hey everyone! I don’t usually post on Wednesday, but I just got this great offer from Craftsy. Have you been wanting to try something new or ready to take your interest to the next level? Starting today, Craftsy Unlimited is now Bluprint, and offers expanded categories like dance, fitness, yoga, art, and home decorating (plus all the original arts and crafts categories you love).

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You can turn your inspiration into action! We’ll show you how. Through August 1, you receive a FREE 7 Day Bluprint Trial + 33% Off First 3 Months – Or – $20 Off Annual Subscription. The regular price is just $9.99 a month or your first year for just $100. Now you get an even better deal with this promotion!

I hopped over to the site to take a look at what they offer. There are so many choices! How exciting! There are classes for cooking and baking, quilting and knitting, yoga and dance, and photo and family. For each class, you have the choice of beginner to advanced guidance. You can comment, or ask questions, and learn from experts and doers just like you.

Bluprint has fresh ideas and inspiration every day and it’s available to you 24 hours a day. Some projects will just take a few minutes and others are more labor intensive.

I looked at a few of there classes, just to see what was available. I checked out photography, For the beginner classes, they have basic photography, pets, children and several others. If you are already more advanced, there are 10 more classes, including photoshop, posing, and lenses. In the family section, there are classes for drawing, baking and crocheting. I would love to learn hand lettering and they offer a class under paper crafts!

Click here to sign up for all of this wonderfulness!

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Corner News-January 30, 2016

January 30, 2016January 29, 2016Leave a comment

Welcome to another edition of the Corner News. A post where new things are presented and old news is brought back into the limelight.

In old news, I started back to school…hooray… Only two more semesters. Only two more semesters to go. I am so close to being done with classes and I just want it to be over now. But, I have now started to take my knitting to school because I have time between classes. So, why not take my knitting?

And in new news, I am going to be starting my own blog in a few weeks. It is called Too Small of a Closet, because in reality it’s true. It is going to be a fashion blog and I am really excited to get it started. I won’t be posting anything soon, but it will let you all know when the blog has posts on it.

And that’s what has happened these past two weeks. I hope you all have a great weekend and I can’t wait to see you soon!

Addiction to Yarn Organization

January 29, 2016January 27, 201613 Comments

Everyone, I have a confession to make. Now, it may come as a surprise, but I have an addiction. I know, I know…shocking. But, it has finally come time to admit to my addiction.

I am addicted to buying yarn.

I know! I know! It’s horrible. But, it is time to come clean and admit to my mistake.

But, I like the feeling of knitting a scarf and finishing it and feeling good about it. Feeling a sense of accomplishment and pride as I have a scarf finished.

But it has come to this.

It has become very disorganized to the point where I didn’t know which scarves are done and what type of yarn it is. The scarves were becoming tangled together and I wasn’t too happy with it.

I also kept all of the tags from the yarn and just kept them in a bag. Unfortunately, it was hard to know which brand and color belong to which yarn when they are all just laying in a pile.

Also, you know the Banksy box that I have with all of my extra yarn? Yeah…the zipper is breaking…

So, I got started by using this crate that I made at the Do It Herself workshop at Home Depot. It should probably be used as a wine crate or something more useful, but I decided that it is perfect for yarn. Here is the before I fill it with yarn.

And here it is the after I have filled it with yarn.

Much more organized than the yarn just hanging out in the plastic tote. I can now see what yarn I have and what brand and style it is. It’s so perfect!

I also decided to create a yarn book. I wrote down all the brands, style, and color of each yarn. I also cut a small piece of each yarn so that way I knew which yarn went with each brand. So, here is my yarn book!

It is so perfect. I can now see what I have and which yarns I have knitted into scarves. Hooray!

I also took all of my scarves and put their tags with them. I had to go back and look up some of the names to see if I could find which color went with which style. But in the end, I was able to put them back in the plastic tote to store them.

And not only are they organize, but the box is now labeled as well.

So now it is all organized!

It looks so much better! I am so happy with how this got so organized and how it looks. I now know where all my yarn is and what scarves are done. Hooray!

Well…I am so glad that I was able to open up about my addiction. Now, how many people think I should be on ‘My Strange Addiction’?