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Come behind the scenes at Crafty Texas Girls for a #CraftRoomTour and see Samantha's craft room in Grapevine, Texas.
My favorite thing about my craft room is that although the room itself is white, the space feels colorful due to all the supplies. I love the color coordination in my fabric stash and ribbon collection. Just coming into the room makes me excited to craft!

Creature of Whim recreates the cabaret punk style of Amanda Palmer for today's #DIYTheLook
Amanda Palmer defines her music as Cabaret Punk, which can also be used to decribe her fashion style. This fashion gives Amanda Palmer a powerful/revolutionary touch to her preformances. She is known for not shaving, appearing nude, and outfits that showing a lot of skin, but not in a sexual taboo sense, but rather a way to show that it is good to be comertable in your skin and to accept it for all its uniqueness and beauty.
We head to Kalamazoo, Michigan to meet Ariel who loves cosplay!
How did you find CO+K and why did you join?
I've been here so long, I don't remember how I got here! It just seems like the obvious site to join for ideas, tutorials, inspiration, and a community of like-minded crafters who will help you out.
What projects are you currently working on?
I'm still in the planning stages of my next cosplay: The Winter Soldier!
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Writing Monique creates her perfect summer party for today's #DIYTheParty
I’m absolutely obsessed with parties in general, but summer parties are something special to me. I love staying out late with candles all around, eating ice cream and drinking awesome cocktails! This style board has a few of my go-to summer party DIYs, and a few of my I-wanna-do-that-for-my-next-summer-party DIYs. That wigwam for example?! OH GOSH! Why didn’t I ever thought of that before?!