5 Reasons Why You Should Sell Your Crafts on Etsy
A goal I have for this blog is to help crafters get their craft business online. I know and have met people who sell crafts and know of Etsy, but due to various...
Etsy Treasury: Play & Learn, Toys for Preschoolers
This week’s treasury features an array of toys for children. When I selected these, I specifically had children between ages 2 and 5 in mind, because that is th...
Beginner’s Garter Edge Fingerless Mitts: Free Pattern
This is a repost of a pattern that I wrote up a couple of years ago and posted on my old blog, Nikki’s Notebook. I’m putting it up here because I wa...
An introspective on what I want Sticks & Scribbles to be.
Right now it seems as if there could be nothing more wonderful than finally being able to sit outside on the deck and write. Finally, Duluth has had a sunny, dr...
Duluth is a knitter’s city
Yesterday was June 1st, and the weather here in Duluth greeted us with mist, fog, and rain. Since April, people on my Facebook page and elsewhere have been grip...
Free pattern: Thumby Armwarmers
There is not too much going on with my knitting around here. I have been knitting the armwarmers that I mentioned in this post and it’s been keeping me pr...
Tuesday Treasury: Tesoros Argentinos – Argentine Treasures
Two blog posts ago, I wrote about some of my memories from studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For this week’s treasury, I decided to make a colle...
Handspun Armwarmers, Wristwarmers, Handwarmers…Whatever you call them!
Ever since I took up spinning, I’ve not been very good about using my handspun yarn. For spinning, I am drawn to hand-dyed rovings in multiple colors. I a...