More Articles from Archive ~ Crafty stuff

This tutorial was written by Jane of Dear Author. Tot received an American Girl dog (Honey, if you were wondering) for Christmas. She really wanted the dog bed. At $18, though, it wasn’t happening. I did think I could replicate it, or even improve upon it. What do you think? Materials List: Two ovals of [...]

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This post was written by Jane of Dear Author When I first saw the boxy pouch tutorial, I thought it would be a delight to make but I wanted it to be lined and have the handle like the one I saw at Burda Style. Further, I needed my boxy pouch to be larger. I [...]

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Teacher Gifts

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This post was written by Jane of Dear Author. This year, I made teacher’s gifts using some cute craft tutorials. First up is the journal cover. I used this tutorial from Bloom. While the tutorial doesn’t say this explicitly, there is no lining inside the pocket panels. You can add a lining, but it makes [...]

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This post was written by Jane of Dear Author: Tot got a new 18″ doll from American Girl but we had only one doll bed. So Ned made another doll bed and I set about making a mattress for it. This is the new bed with the doll and the old mattress. I found a [...]

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I’m just blogging at other places recently. With my new job at Carina came a new responsibility: keeper of the blog. So for the near future, I’ll be blogging there at least on Mondays and Fridays. Visit me there! AND! We are finally ready to reveal the new cooking and crafting blog, Whipped Out. It’s [...]

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*contest is closed, we have a name! Winner will be announced this week!* Have you ever had the urge to do something a little different than what you’re doing now? Or to share your love of something? That’s what Jane Litte of Dear Author, Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and I are doing. [...]

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Though I haven’t been doing a lot of sewing or crafting lately, and have a couple of projects that are halfway done needing to be finished, and some promised things to make, I still love to collect fabric. I adore fabric, and find the selection locally kind of depressing now that we’ve gone from three [...]

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Yep, still here. Still watering the posts, letting the drafts out and collecting the comments. You know, doing our part to blogsit like the great *evil laugh* friends we are. Today, one of the drafts ran from us. We chased it and when we entered Angie’s bedroom, we thought you’d all want a picture of [...]

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Hi everyone! We’re sure you noticed that Angie is gone. We were asked to keep an eye on the blog and to blogsit. We stopped past to water the posts and let the drafts out and happened upon some of Angie’s boxes of photos. We think you’ll find them as shocking as we did. Angie [...]

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About Me


Angela James

There is nothing worse than writing a bio. And writing one for your blog sidebar? Blech. Maybe you landed here via Google, followed me from Twitter (does that make you a stalker?) or maybe we met at a conference or you clicked a link from a comment I made at a blog you visited. Hopefully whatever I said didn't make you so mad you came looking for a picture to throw darts at (yep, that's me up above, in my favorite cowboy hat) but instead drove you to find out more about the amazingly witty and intelligent person behind the amazingly witty and intelligent comment.

However you found me, who you found is Angela James, executive editor of Carina Press, Harlequin's new digital-first press. I'm passionate about digital publishing, my mission is to drag people to the digital dark side, one reader (and author) at a time. I'm also Brianna's mommy. At my blog you'll get an odd mix of personal and professional posts about parenting, publishing, books, cooking, sewing and life in general. Come back often, comment frequently and go green—buy ebooks!

Please note that this is my personal blog and my opinions are neither that of Harlequin, nor representative of their opinions.

 

Find Me Here

First, I blog once or twice a week at theCarina Press blog, talking about the job, the authors, the books and other things Carina Press. And, of course, you can always find me on Twitter. Or Facebook, if you prefer (mostly the same content, one feeds the other). I also run the Carina Press Twitter and Facebook accounts. Social media, it's where it's at (well, it's where I'm at, anyway).
 

Twitter

  • This is what I'm going to make with the garlic scapes. I've never cooked with them before! http://t.co/dKQ3EjtA ~ 2 hours ago
  • Week 2 CSA share: strawberries, sugar snap peas, lettuce, arugula, turnips, rainbow chard, bok choy & garlic scapes. Yum! ~ 2 hours ago
  • I try not to get too into politics or religion on Twitter, but this particular situation hit every hot button for me (and I'm Catholic!) ~ 2 hours ago
 

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