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Normally, Saturdays during this time of the year I’d be hawking my wares at the downtown Madison farmer’s market, but today the rain and wind decided it was their turn to occupy the Square, so I’m holed up in my apartment with a nice cup of hot chocolate, working on some things I’ve been putting off.

In the spirit of getting things accomplished, I’ve decided to celebrate marking things off my to-do list by having an impromptu sale in my shop, so I’ve marked everything down 20% and it’s all waiting for you over at http://pangeahandmade.com !

Treat yourself to a pretty new piece of jewelry, or show your mama how much you like her by getting her a gift for Mother’s Day!

Sale ends April 30, 2012 at 11:59pm CST.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!

xo.

-Angela

if you haven’t been following me on Facebook or Twitter and you’re not signed up for my email list, you might not already know this. but this month, i had the amazing opportunity to send my jewelry to Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and i couldn’t feel more lucky! :D

earlier this year, i was accepted into the prestigious artist’s organization, The Artisan Group, that helps people like little old me, market their businesses at a Hollywood level and gives us opportunities to gift some really big-name celebrities. i was chosen in a lucky lottery winning within our group to be one of the shops sending something to Tom Cruise and his cute family!

after much deliberation, i designed this necklace for Katie featuring the birthstone color (diamond) of their daughter, Suri and mailed it out a couple days ago! it’s a big relief to see this finished and on its way… i’m nervous and excited. my stomach was a mess of knots before i sent it off!

so, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise will be in possession of this piece in just a short while! who knows if anything will come of it, but how cool would it be to see it being worn out in public! my gosh, the thought….but, maybe she won’t like it and i’ll never hear of it again. but you can bet i’ll keep you posted if i do!

Yay! I had some time to get crafty, so I wanted to share it with you in the form of a tutorial! :D

The hectic holidays are over, so I had a little time to dust off Winifred (my trusty sewing machine) and get to work on a few projects. One of them was this super easy patchwork infinity (or circle) scarf that I’ve been wanting to make.

It just so happened that I had three scraps of fabric the perfect size for this (not that there’s any size requirements, this one is so easy, you can pretty much make it up as you go), and WHAT??!! They matched? DANG. Triple win!

This is a great project for using up a lot of tiny scraps too, if you have more time/patience on your hands. Wouldn’t it be fun with a bunch of tiny squares of fabric of equal size that were all different (or you could even go with alternating squares or rectangles or two different types for a striped effect)? Or you can definitely go neutral or vibrant with a solid color, too. See! The possibilities are endless…

Here’s what you need:

• sewing machine
• scissors or rolling cutter blade thingy and a cutting mat (i’m good at technical terms, can you tell?)
• ruler or other length/width measuring device
• thread
• hand-sewing needle
• iron and ironing board
• pins
• fabric scraps/strips/yardage depending on the look you’re going for

Once you’ve got all that it’s simple! I made my scarf kinda skinny (because the width of my scraps limited me a bit), so I made sure to make it extra long so that it could still look full when I twist it around to wear it. Once I cut them all to the same width, this is what my pieces measured:

1. 45 inches by 13 inches
2. 31 inches by 13 inches
3. 49.5 inches by 13 inches

Hope your holidays were grand and you had some time to relax! I know I was happy to take a deep breath and sleep a lot! If you make one (or many!) of these (because they’re so addicting, I want to use up all of my scraps this way now!), let me know in the comments! I’d love to see them!

Sleep tight, lovies! It’s early (read: late? you can tell by my overuse of exclamation points and parenthetical comments…), so I’m off to bed!

hey guys!

had these little babies sitting out on my desk last week, drying, and i couldn’t just let them sit without taking a photo, so i thought i’d share a bit of the behind the scenes with you.

all of these are in their loving new homes by now, but i just got around to getting them up here too. :)

have quite a few new things to list this weekend/early next week as well, if i can finish them all, so i’ll probably send the updates in the april newsletter by the end of next week at the latest (have you signed up yet?) :D

hope you’re having a good week!

just dropping by quick to let you know that i’m still here, and i still love you, but i will be a bit sporadic this week. i’m busy busy busy busy working on something that i will be able to tell you next week, but for now it’s lots of preparing, fine-tuning, assembling, designing, and lots of crazed late nights doing everything i possibly can to keep myself on track and convince myself i’m ready for it! :D

i bought myself a white board to hang in the studio, with nice bright markers and a big school-sized eraser (i thought about posting a pic of it hanging on the wall here, but it’s full of all the things i need to do right now, and i can’t show you that quite yet because it’ll give away my big surprise!) it’s really helped me visualize the things i need to accomplish, and gives me more motivation now that i have something physical to erase when it’s been completed. though at this rate, every time i cross something off, it’s just made room for more, so the board’s going to stay pretty full for a while i’m afraid… lol.

this got me thinking, what do you do to keep yourself on track? how do you organize your thoughts when you know you have a lot to get done? i’m telling you, this white board is keeping me sane right now, and i’m not afraid to say it!

so anyway, sorry to keep you waiting! i miss you, and i promise i’ll be back to normal soon! :D