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Two Factories Available

Feb 17th

Posted by Anna in Crafted Things

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Update: The yellow Cheeseburgers into TVs factory has been sold and is no longer available.

I should mention that these two Tiny Things Conversion Factories are available for purchase!

Trees into Lions:

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Cheeseburgers into TVs:

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These are original knitted pieces that I made for the third annual “Luv-able & Hug-able” plush show that took place in December at gallery hanahou.

The price has been reduced to $200 each. Email me at info@mochimochiland.com if you’re interested!

Oh, and if I may do a quick brag: my third Tiny Thing Conversion Factory (which sold at the show) made it into Flickr’s Explore feature and has been viewed more than 11,000 times!

Boston Cream Why?

Feb 15th

Posted by Anna in Crafted Things

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My husband John loves cake, so I thought I’d bake him a cake for Valentine’s Day. Seeing as how I’m a pretty inexperienced baker, why wouldn’t I just choose the first complex recipe that I came across? So there it was on Design Sponge the other day, a recipe for a beautiful Boston cream pie—accompanied by pretty photos, of course!

So I tried, and… kind of failed.

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As you can see, my “chocolate glaze” was more like a chocolate syrup when I poured it on top, but I rolled with it anyway. I think it was a matter of substituting an ingredient or two, and maybe also an issue of temperature. (And boy does it look extra creepy sitting in the fridge in this photo!)

Anyway, it was eaten, and enjoyed, so I guess I kind of succeeded in the end, too. What will happen on day two of the cake remains to be seen, though.

Going Gocco

Jan 25th

Posted by Anna in Crafted Things

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Can you believe my mother-in-law has had a Gocco printer for YEARS and we only tried it out this weekend?

Figuring out how to use it was a snap—we just watched this tutorial video from Etsy. The hardest part was sitting around trying to come up with something to draw. That took… an embarrassingly long time.

Anyway, I finally settled on a mess of little rectangular monsters. (Bonney insisted on refraining from printing her own design for this trial run.)

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(Apologies for the cell phone photos, btw.)

The Gocco contraption lets you burn your image onto a screen, then you paint the screen with ink and use the same contraption to press the ink through the screen onto paper.

I didn’t take any pictures during the screen-burning process (it was too nerve-racking!), but here is the printing process, as demonstrated by Bonney.

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You can apparently make up to 50 or so prints with one inking!

Here’s a better view of the finished print on brown paper.

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This was so much fun that it’s tempting to imagine getting my own and printing up tons of stationery. If only I wrote more notes!

Hug-able Plushes Still Available

Dec 17th

Posted by Anna in Crafted Things

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There are still some plushes available from “Luv-able & Hug-able” at the gallery hanahou online shop! Since we’re starting to get down to the wire, gifting- and especially shipping-wise for the holidays, I thought I’d highlight some of my favorites that still need homes.

Sophie by Elisabeth Doherty (aka Gourmet Amigurumi):