About Holly

 
I have a background in art, drafting, rug weaving, dying, and beadwork. For me, making stuff is heaven, but I used to want to be a “real” artist, convinced that arts & crafts just wasn’t serious work. Then, a few years ago I fell into my perfect job: creating craft projects and writing about them. My experience and interests came together, and I gave in to the fun. For many of us, getting our hands back into the mud, so to speak, has been a life saver. So it was with me.

I love the challenge of creating something practical or beautiful (or both!) with common, everyday materials used in new ways. And I have great admiration for hard-working women through history who “made a little something out of almost nothing,” their creativity bubbling up out of them, taking form in patchwork quilts, colorful rag rugs, and other such family- warming treasures.

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                                    This rag runner was made of old cotton sheets                                     that were hand-dyed and cut into strips, then woven on an antique Scandinavian floor loom.
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                    Little Books & Painted Doodles

I’m currently wild about: painting doodles on cast-off furniture, making tiny books with pretty paper and fabric, and working with wax.

My Little Neighborhood

I live in a small historic neighborhood of worker’s houses in a large midwestern city where I juggle work with lovingly attending to the princesses (my teenage daughters) and studying astrology.

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Painted Feet -- What can I say? We love to paint and doodle on everything!
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