Pin It Crafts: Picture Frame Crafts

Posted by on April 23, 2013

Pin It Picture Frames

Do you love Pinterest?  Do you need to find some time and space to do some of your pinned crafts from Pinterest? Join us in May for Pin It Crafts.  This month we are focusing on picture frame crafts from Pinterest.  We will meet at 1:30pm in the Lingo Story Room on Saturday, May 11th [...]

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Pin It Crafts Recycled Magazine Crafts

Posted by on April 2, 2013

Do you love Pinterest?  Do you need to find some time and space to do some of your pinned crafts from Pinterest? Join us in April for Pin It Crafts.  This month we are focusing on recycled magazine crafts from Pinterest.  We will meet at 1:30pm in the Lingo Story Room on Saturday, April 20th [...]

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Pin It Crafts – Spring & Easter Crafts

Posted by on March 5, 2013

Pin It Spring

Do you love Pinterest?  Do you need to find some time and space to do some of your pinned crafts from Pinterest? Join us in March for Pin It Crafts.  This month we are focusing on spring and Easter crafts from Pinterest.  We will meet at 1:30pm in the Lingo Story Room on Saturday, March [...]

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Coming Soon…Pin It Crafts

Posted by on December 25, 2012

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“Pin It Crafts” is an exciting, new program that we will be kicking off on January 19th.  Starting at 1:30pm, in the Anton Room (second floor of  the library), we will meet and discuss this new Pinterest based program. This first get-together is to let everyone know how “Pin It Crafts” will work – we [...]

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Create a Paper Star

Posted by on December 17, 2012

craft a paper star

There is still time before the holidays for handmade! Create a beautiful three dimensional paper star with these step by step photo-illustrated instructions. Use library books for Arts and Crafts inspiration and ideas.

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Poke Around in our Crafting Books

Posted by on November 14, 2012

Browse our crafting books

Crafts are a wonderful creative outlet and a source for inexpensive gifts that allow you to share your creativity with friends, relatives and total strangers. Find out how inspiration can strike at the library.

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Junk Drawer Jewelry

Posted by on November 5, 2012

One womans junk

You’ve heard the expression one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. My new version of that saying is one woman’s junk is another woman’s fashion accessory. I do not collect rare buttons and I do not make fine art jewelry. But I do like to make fun funky artsy jewelry from things I find in my “junk” box.

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Get Crafty with this Online Resource

Posted by on September 17, 2012

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Find inspiration for your next craft or hobby project by easily searching hundreds of magazines and books in one place: the Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center online database. Search full text articles for creative ideas on that next sweater, model train and scrapbook from today’s most popular craft and idea magazines and books.

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It’s Time to Scrapbook!

Posted by on May 18, 2012

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I don’t need much of an excuse to start a new hobby and now here’s a holiday just to get me in the mood for something new! The first Saturday in May has been declared National Scrapbooking Day by many and the library has a great collection of scrapbooking and memory album books to inspire you.

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Hand Spun from Spinner Pluckyfluff

Posted by on May 8, 2012

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Do you think yarn should be simple? Smooth? Admittedly some yarn is pretty straightforward because it’s sole purpose is function and it needs to knit up easy on those manufacturing knitting machines. But there is a world of fiber arts out there where yarn is not only useful, beautiful, and unique, it is ART! Welcome to Art-Yarn.

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