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Month: June 2015

Posted on June 30, 2015July 5, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — 2 Comments

New pattern: Fancypants!

Create your own sewing pattern based on your particular curves. Use it to make pajama bottoms (short, long, and in between) or lounge pants!

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Categories: downloadables, sewing
Tags: lounge pants, pajama bottoms, pants
Posted on June 27, 2015December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — 5 Comments

TWiP: Summer, at last.

This Week in Pictures, Week 26, 2015

School let out on Tuesday. Yay!

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Category: this week in pictures
Tags: instagram, project 365
Posted on June 26, 2015June 25, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

Weekend Favorites

This week: charity knit auction, polymer clay starter kits, pretty pictures, and the future of Weekend Favorites.

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Category: weekend favorites
Tags: favorite links, flickr favorites, instagram likes
Posted on June 24, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — 6 Comments

Revisiting those old shelves

A girl has got to pay the bills. And an artsy person has got to have beach reading. Maybe we can combine those two things?

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Categories: polka dot creations, polymer clay
Tags: magazines, stampington and company
Posted on June 22, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — 10 Comments

Of TV Habits and New Reads

My schedule for personal needlework has gotten all out of whack in recent months.

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Categories: crochet, knitting
Tags: family room squircleghan, lady kina
Posted on June 20, 2015December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

TWiP: graph paper everywhere

This Week in Pictures, Week 25, 2015

You will notice this week that I used a lot of graph paper…

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Tags: instagram, project 365
Posted on June 19, 2015June 18, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

Weekend Favorites

Favorite links this week: Shaving cream, pillow restoration, upcycled candy boxes, and lazy quilting.

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Category: weekend favorites
Tags: favorite links, flickr favorites, instagram likes
Posted on June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — 5 Comments

Teaching the teacher

I am doing my usual thing of learning how to do something so I can write a tutorial for it, and it’s not going as well as I’m used to it going…

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Category: sewing
Tags: lounge pants, pants
Posted on June 15, 2015 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

Love is a Swimming Pool with no Bottom

It’s time for a new mix tape! This one is a summery mish-mosh of old and new tunes, and you can listen here.

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Category: Polka Dot Radio
Tag: summer
Posted on June 13, 2015December 27, 2021 by Lisa Clarke — Leave a comment

TWiP: the writing on the steps

This Week in Pictures, Week 24, 2015

Often the week’s images speak more to the little things in life than they do to the big ways in which I’ve spent my time.

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Tags: instagram, project 365

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Our 15th long weekend in Ocean City has come to an Our 15th long weekend in Ocean City has come to an end. As usual, Neil and I easily could have talked ourselves into staying for the rest of the week. One of these years, we are going to have to do it. Maybe 16th time will be the charm 😁. Today was the first non-foggy morning we had. I could even see my shadow on my morning walk! We played some games at @jillysocnj Arcade (as has become our last day tradition), and I stopped in at @mancoandmanco for a slice of pizza before we hit the road. Wow, was it ever delicious! Why did it take me so long to stop in there? 🍕We're home now, and it's back to work tomorrow. *Sigh*#iloveocnj #oceancitynj #jerseyshore
Our last full day here started off even foggier th Our last full day here started off even foggier than the previous two, if you can believe it. But then the sun pushed through, and I rented a bike from @bobsgrilloceancity and broke my own mileage record (it was awesome and I am pooped). I finished a pack of instant film and added to my collection of sub par snapshots 😜. There were falcons on the boardwalk again this year, sitting nicely still for pictures when they weren't working to deter seagull aggression. And I had a delicious ice cream sandwich (coffee ice cream between two peanut butter cookies) - it was huge and a bit much for me to finish (though I did 🙊). Maybe @famouscookiecreamery will consider selling half sandwiches sometime, lol.P.S. pictures of me by @clarkesworld 📷#iloveocnj #oceancitynj #oceancityboardwalk #jerseyshore #lisadoesinstant
So much walking today. I've broken a personal reco So much walking today. I've broken a personal record for number of steps, which is really impressive when you consider it rained all afternoon and I spent a few hours inside reading back issues of #taprootmagazine and watching #annikapbs 😁. My day has been bookended by trips down the boardwalk: alone in the morning for coffee @oceancitycoffee and with Neil in the evening for soft serve @kohrbrosocnj ☕🍦💗#iloveocnj #ocnj #oceancitynj #ocnjboardwalk #jerseyshore #oceancitycoffeecompany #kohrsbros
It's been foggy here all day long. This is the liv It's been foggy here all day long. This is the living room of the condo where we are staying. It's a nice little place, with more space than hotel room the four of us usually share when we're here 😁The next two pictures are from this morning on my walk to get coffee, and the rest are from a walk tonight with Neil. So much fog! 🌫️
We've stayed at the same hotel in #ocnj since 2008 We've stayed at the same hotel in #ocnj since 2008, but this year there is just this empty space where the hotel used to be.@oceanfrontmotel #oceanfrontmotelnj #oceancitynj
I usually start the day on my laptop, but today I I usually start the day on my laptop, but today I feel like going analog 🙂Edited to add: I forgot #memademay starts today, but I am coincidentally wearing my #pdcfancypants PJ bottoms, which I sewed two years ago in some lovely @theshopcabin fabric I picked up from @hawthornesupplyco 💗#morningcoffee #noromagazine #memademay2022
Wanna see something cool?These little polymer cl Wanna see something cool?These little polymer clay doodads are NFC-enabled. Each of them can be programmed to do a specific task when held up to an unlocked phone. They can do stuff like this:- open a website address
- open an app
- sign you into a wifi networkI have one on my keychain that is programmed to open Polka Dot Cottage, so if somebody asks me where they can buy one of those colorful rings I'm wearing, I can tap the polymer tile to their unlocked phone and it will open lisaclarke.net in their browser.I have one in the car that I use to quickly open Spotify on my phone.I have one in the family room that friends and family can use to connect to my wifi network without typing in the long password.I'm still exploring this technology, as well as playing with ways to encase it in polymer and make it pretty. These prototypes make me happy. Even the pink one where the tip of the teardrop broke off. I just sanded it down and drilled a new hole. Weird shape, but good as new.I'm thinking about making tiles like these available in my shop. What do you think? Can you see yourself using a custom polymer clay bauble that lets you easily share your website to a friend's phone? Or share your Instagram profile with that kindred spirit who noticed you snapping photos in the park? So many possibilities!What would you like to be able to do with a tap?
Tfw three minor/routine health/medical things that Tfw three minor/routine health/medical things that by themselves are nbd, converge in a single week, making you spend more lazy days feeling meh and watching TV than you really want, but then the week is over, and everything is back to normal, and you take a shower and go outside and spring has sprung spectacularly 💗💚💗
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