It seems that this week is all about tying up loose ends: prepping for our after Christmas sale, last minute shopping, finishing those last few homemade gifts, grocery shopping for our big xmas eve celebration, and of course, wrapping gifts. Today, I brought most of the gifts to the studio to use our [...]

Happy Friday to all you Christmas Elves out there! 

The big day is only one week away and we feel like we still have so much to do. So this weekend is sure to be jam-packed with last minute holiday preparations. Last night we got together with two of our teenage sisters [...]

Friday night Heidi and I, and our friend Deneen, took time out from this crazy holiday season, to take a crafty class at the fabulous Home Ec store in Silver Lake.  We have been so curious about needle felting and this class did not disappoint! We had so much fun. Home Ec is a super [...]

Hello Friday…you’re back so soon!

Wow, this week was a whirlwind! The tornado that we call Christmas time has hit with full force and it’s hard to believe how much you can cram into one short day. Tonight we are taking a class at Home Ec on needle felting. Can’t wait! This is something we have [...]

Last week, I came home from work to find my husband, Will, waiting for me at the front door. He was grinning ear-to-ear and I could tell he was excited to show me something. That something was a wreath he had made out of scraps of wood left over from a workshop project [...]

Every year during the holidays, all I want to do is craft.  Maybe its a response to the pressure of Christmas shopping and malls and gift lists, but right about now I usually think of a million and one things I want to handmake for people.  “Right about now” also happens to be [...]

This past weekend we got to play store for two days with our little pop-up store at Unique Los Angeles, an amazing event of independent design. This was the 3rd Unique Los Angeles show; we participated in both the event last December as well as their spring event and love working it as [...]

Happy Friday! The holidays are definitely here! Christmas lights are everywhere, cars with trees strapped to the top on on the road, and  lots of holiday shopping seems to be going on! Rock Scissor Paper be setting up shop at Unique LA this weekend. We’re really looking forward to creating our display and seeing friends, new [...]

For those of you who shop at Trader Joe’s, have you noticed how beautiful the holiday edition of their paper grocery bags are this year?  I adore the look of the white ink printed onto the brown paper bag.  I’ve had a stack of them sitting around the house and I keep telling [...]

Nothing says Christmas to me like stockings. Somehow this icon represents all the little pleasures of the season: decorating, gift-giving, yearly traditions, sweet treats and surprises. No mantel is complete in the month of December without at least a few stockings hung up there.

Stockings are a great blank slate to get creative with. You really [...]