Buy Handmade This Season!
As the official shopping season begins today with "Black Friday," I urge everyone to take the same pledge I do each year and buy handmade.What is the handmade pledge? It is a promise to purchase hand-made items by local artisans, which are more meaningful than store-bought gifts. This is even more important to me this year in light of Ebay's commercial that tell us that handmade items "smell like Church." Can't make something? No worries. Shop at

Crochet and Fly Tying...Perfect Together
So what does crochet and fly tying have in common? Tying a crochet rock worm of course!I will be demonstrating the crochet rock worm, along with a number of different flies along with Glenn at the International Fly Tying Symposium this weekend at the Double Tree Hotel in Somerset, NJ.The show is a great place to pick up lots of neat stuff you can use to spin, crochet and knit. Glenn and I regularly use my wool for spi

Rockaway Mall's Stitching at Starbucks this Thursday
Just a quick reminder that the next Stitchin' at Starbucks is this Thursday, November 19th, 7:00 p.m. at the Starbucks coffee shop next to Pier One in the Target strip mall at the Rockaway Mall, Rockaway, NJ. We are having a great time getting together every few weeks and would love to have more join in on the fun! If you are on Facebook, search under groups for Stitching at Starbucks and join our happy little group! Hope to see you there!

Ebay Commercial Part Two
In my last blog post, I shared my complete disdain for the latest Ebay commercial that pokes fun at those who make handmade items as gifts.Well, I have been searching the internet for those who haven't seen it and finally someone posted it on YouTube. You watch it and be the judge.

Negative Feedback for New Ebay Commercial
OK, I have a gripe..."Let's talk about homemade gifts ... No one wants them. I know it's the thought that counts, but think harder. How about a snow mobile? It doesn't have to be expensive. Go to eBay."This is how a new television commercial for Ebay starts out. The individual providing this opinion is holding a pair of knitted gloves with grandma sitting in the background trying to hear what he is saying. I have a major issue with this...and I will be the first to admit I do not have the best sense of humor. However, I am one of many who make hand-made items for those I care about enough to put the time and effort into making something as a gift. I also know for a