Come and join us! A fun-filled evening with unique vendors, wine, coffee and treats!
Revolutions Espresso is in the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle:
Check out this blog, A Little Etsy Love, for the chance to win a $20 Kit and Caboodle Gift Certificate. This is just one of the goodies on offer in their HUGE Holiday Giveaway! Take a look at the wonderful handmade gifts they have selected in the Gift Guide, including our own Kit and Caboodle Designs Mama and Baby Elephant Sewing Kit.
Happy Thanksgiving!
We'll be here, introducing some new craft kits! Stop by and say hello - we look forward to meeting you!
Memorial Day offer at www.kitandcaboodledesigns.com ! Take $5 off purchases of $30 or more! Use coupon code Z586IKW526R3 at checkout. Expires 5/31/10.
Just listed today - a new notecard five pack featuring art, as usual, by the talented Miss G. Watch out for her guest blog post in the next couple of days. I love her style and her humor (and I should probably mention that she's my youngest daughter!).
She doodled this sweet frog on a Post-It note while she was waiting for me to stop talking on the phone! His expression mirrors her's at the time...just thinking...just dreaming.
I also just opened a shop here on Zibbet, which is somewhat like Etsy but a little less saturated. I've enjoyed having a mooch around at the handmade goodies listed on both sites.
A couple of recent blog mentions for Kit and Caboodle Craft Kits! Thanks Zoe and Clementine NW!
I love Etsy. I love mama owned businesses. I love the Pacific Northwest. I love supporting those things by buying handmade, especially if it is eco-friendly, local, or made by moms. And, yes, I am a big believer in the idea that you get what you pay for…
...This Sew-a-Rabbit kit ($16.15 with other colors available) from Kit and Caboodle Designs is so cute! You can either make your sweet babe a sweet bunny, or let your older child have a great eco-friendly sewing project. Plus, it’s on sale now through Easter! Find all of the fantastic kits at http://www.etsy.com/shop/kitandcaboodledesign.
Thanks to Evergreen Moms for the great review!
My eldest has been eager to do craft projects lately. While I enjoy the afternoons creating our masterpieces, pulling together the necessary bits and pieces for a given project can sometimes be a pain in the you-know-what. And I'm a little dubious of many of the kits at the big box craft store, especially given the lead and other toxins that keep popping up in cheap toys.
Seattle's Kit and Caboodle Designs makes it a whole lot easier with their craft kits, ranging from sewing to jewelry to painting. They include nearly everything you need to complete the project, from pattern to materials to thread and needle. I love how they play with texture and color. Plus, they steer clear of plastics, opt for reused and recycled materials, and source them locally here in the Northwest, when possible.
Best of all, the end product is actually something you'd want to keep around, like the colorful owl family sewing kit (above) or Russian stacking dolls you paint yourself. There's even a Sew-A-Rabbit kit, just in time for Easter. Craft time just got a whole lot better.
$13 and up at Kit and Caboodle
I found this article with its list of SaaS applications very interesting. It made me think about how much information (my own included) is now stored 'in the ether'. Or rather, in 'the cloud'. From the article:
A piece of software that runs in your web browser and which stores your data (such as emails or photos) on the Internet is commonly referred to as Software As A Service (SaaS) or cloud-based computing – two buzz words which companies like SalesForce.com and Google use as much as they can to communicate the idea that there’s a paradigm shift taking place in the way software is built and used.
This shift seems to have occurred without most of us even realizing what's been going on (well, me at least!). On many levels I like it, particularly the ease of access from anywhere (with no more digging through many and varied piles of STUFF). I worry that if the computer dies I'll lose all my files, so recently I've been auto-backing up with a service called IDrive. Love anything that's 'auto' - I don't have to tax my poor overstuffed memory with another 'thing to do'! Anyway, IDrive is another example of 'the cloud' in action. But I do feel concerned that if we upload our lives, we'll lose the joy of face-to-face contact. I always feel a sense of disquiet when I see people out and about with friends or loved ones, spending their time with noses glued to screens. My own experience is that the web is a massive time drain; the only way to go for me is setting firm time limits for computer use and spend more time working with my hands. And so, adieu!