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		<title>Lace Tiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've been meaning to post about the tiles shown in the header above, which were a featured project in our September issue. I was doing some experimenting with lace (which I have to admit I am pretty obsessed with for many reasons!) and I was so excited when I figured out this technique. It's kind ...]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Collections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February we worked with the amazing Jessica Pigza of the New York Public Library to produce our story about our valentine-making Crafternoon. Many of the antique valentines that inspired us can be viewed online as part of the NYPL's vast (and growing!) digital collections. I love looking through these online archives and wanted to share ...]]></description>
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		<title>Painted Vessels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About five years ago I developed this project, which I still really love. It's very simple. Water-based enamel paint is poured into glass vessels and swirled around to coat the inside. The magic part is that the white sets off the various blue and green tints in the glass (a surprisingly common characteristic, check your ...]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Postcards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our August issue we created these summer postcards, inspired by die-cut "object" postcards that were popular about a century ago in England, and featured in The World of Interiors a while back. We thought it would be cool to update the idea with photographs rather than illustrations—and develop something that people could make and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Flower Drinking Straws</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I thought I'd had quite enough, thank you, of cupcake and candy papers, I was working on a story for our June issue and came up with these straws. And I must say, they are so cute! I love them. The very week we shot this story with photographer Sang An, I made ...]]></description>
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		<title>Milk Paint</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask the Crafts Dept.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marilyn writes: On Martha's show last week, she showed how to decorate a clay pot. I found all but one of the materials necessary to do it. I am having trouble finding Milk Paint. Do you have any suggestions as to where I can locate this? I have tried all the paint stores, craft stores, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Shower Decorations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the May issue, I worked with stylist (and friend) Sarah Smart on a story about a baby shower thrown for another coworker of ours, Elizabeth Colling, a former food editor here at Living. Neither of us had really done this kind of thing before...but we really went for it. The shower had a library ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pop-Up Card!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shown above is a Mother's Day pop-up card from our May issue. I had a lot of fun figuring out how to make it—it's actually really pretty simple, you just make seven versions of the same simple folded flower, and you can use just about any kind of paper as long as it's all the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Our May Cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cover of our May issue, shot by Ditte Isager, features two projects from our poppies story from the issue, which was a big collaboration between our crafts, style, garden, and food departments. Our idea was to take inspiration from the many varieties of poppies—Oriental, which includes an unbelievable range of colors and types, most ...]]></description>
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		<title>Marbleized Eggs from Our iPhone App</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Preston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Make It]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egg app]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egg dyeing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcie and our digital team put so much work into our brand new egg app for the iPhone, which includes detailed how-tos for making an amazing 101 different types of Easter eggs. I worked on the video components of the app, which show how to make stenciled, resist-dyed, Ukrainian wax-resist, and marbleized eggs. I had ...]]></description>
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