WELCOME TO MOUSETOWN!
Introducing Mouse! Mouse loves to collect and reuse bottlecaps, tins, and boxes for crafts ranging from mini pies, a milk carton house and a tiny wagon! Mouse (and best friend Ginger) work together in the Mousetown bakery and are the tiny stars of this book.
In Mousetown, an inventive craft and story book published by Union Square & Co, you can follow Mouse through their day from getting ready to traveling to work, closing shop, grocery shopping, party prep, and throwing a surprise party for their friend, Ginger. There are 30+ crafty activities throughout the book that use recycled materials to recreate the story's scenes and tiny props so kids can follow along or make their own mini worlds!
Out August 13, 2024 and available for pre-order now!
Barnes & Noble , Amazon, Books-a-Million, Bookshop, Indiebound
toilet tube treasury
I am so excited to announce that I am working on a paper version of Toilet Tube Treasury, full of crafts and templates, for kids and adults alike!
Toilet tubes are free/cute/sturdy-but-easy-to-cut/3D blank canvases, right in your recycle bin! I have put together the best of my tube-y craft ideas and adding a whole bunch of fresh ones including projects for holidays, birthdays, and every day.
Check back here soon for news about the release!
A delivery box metropolis and coffee filter water lilies.
paper goods projects
I loved making things as a kid and was always collecting paper goods like bags, plates, and doilies for potential projects. My other very favorite thing to do was (and is) combing the aisles of supermarkets, hardware and variety stores for supplies, maybe because there weren't craft superstores back then (and certainly not websites). I still find so much inspiration in the everyday and am so excited to finally be gathering the years of collecting, playing, and making into the book: Paper Goods Projects, out August 11, 2015!
Just as every preschool teacher knows: everyday supermarket supplies are not only cheap, plentiful and easy to find, but transforming them helps retain the youthful skill to see the potential in things. It's the ability to see the world differently, to not look at a bottle cap as garbage but as a mini frying pan for their doll, or to see a polar bear in a marshmallow, waiting to be snipped out. This book is all about that process as the projects included are based on materials that you most likely already have in your pantry or recycling bin.
Paper Goods Projects is full of ideas for rainy days, parties, holidays, for adults and kids to do separately or together. We hope you will enjoy…and thanks for visiting our website! Please join our mailing list to get news about our book release.
—Jodi Levine
Available now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Indiebound or right here in my shop!
candy aisle crafts
Our first book, Candy Aisle Crafts, came out on August 26th, 2014!
It features 59 food craft ideas for birthdays, holidays (and any day!) using everyday edible items, step-by-step photos, with a foreword by Martha Stewart.
Check out our blog for a peek into the book!
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Indiebound or right here in my shop!