http://www.fiskateers.com/blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:25:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What a wonderful day Saturday was!  I know many fiskateers were crafting and gathering all over the states.  Love it!  There was no exception on the West Coast.  On Saturday I headed to Timeless Treasures in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.  As some of you know, that was the store where ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/15/an-anniversary-with-fiskateers-friends-and-fun/ Fiskateers were gathering and wearing their orange! While we were cropping away in the rainy NorthEast... Merlene, Tona and Jeannie were paperchasing in the Sunny (their words, not mine) NorthWest... I know that Maxine and a group of Fiskateers were croppin' and Wendy Jo is croppin' too! Were You croppin' this weekend? I completed a ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/14/from-the-northeast-to-the-northwest/ Hey everyone, I'm introducing something new for Fridays!  Since we have so many Fiskateers out there that have a "hidden" talent, I thought it would be cool to feature them on the blog each Friday.  I already have our first victim Fiskateer all lined up, but I need to hear from ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/12/a-new-friday-feature/ Hi…I’m Gail Hutchinson. While on vacation in the early 80’s, our family visited a Cherokee village in Cherokee NC. That’s where I first fell in love with basketry. Watching those Indian ladies weave was just the most incredible thing I had ever seen. At the end of the day, we ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/12/fridays-fiskateer-focus-gail-6870/ What fun.  I loved hearing about all you fiskateers out there that love to cook, barbeque, or play in the kitchen.  Thanks to all for your comments.  I enjoyed reading. I wanted to announce the random winner of a pair of nice Fiskars Kitchen Shears . . . Our winner is Tina ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/12/fiskars-in-the-kitchen-winner/ Well, new Fiskateer Lydia (#7030 to be precise) did a most excellent blog post about it.  AND she captured her sister Cynthia's darling robot perfectly.  Please leave her a comment and show her the power of the Fiskateers:  http://understandblue.blogspot.com/2010/03/fiskateers-are-coming.html (and hey, my hair doesn't look 1/2 bad considering it has ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/11/you-asked-about-our-lego-jewelry/ I think I have figured out the easiest way to go round the corner with Your Fiskars border punches, if I do say so myself.  Watch the video and let me know what You think. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXJVtcmAEA One little note:  In the video I said that this technique will work with every Fiskars ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/11/the-easiest-way-to-go-round-the-corner/ I still have photos and stories to share from my Houston trip but while my Austin trip is still fresh in my mind, I thought I would share a few photos of our "Austin is Weird" crafty night.  I loved showing everyone how to use one of my favorite Fiskars ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/10/austin/ I have had a heart to heart with many of you sharing about my weight and my desire to lose a lot of it.  After some surgeries, changes and inguries . . . it's not as easy to drop it.  Well, while my intentions in the past were good but ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/10/losing-and-learning/ Now that I'm done gallivanting around the eastern half of PA, ha ha, I finally had some time to finish reviewing the crop results.  Let me tell you, all of you knocked it outta the park!!!  There were over 250 projects completed for this challenge, we made over 120 new ... http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2010/03/10/finally-the-online-crop-recap-wowza/