About Me

My name is Polly and I own and run Polly Danger and Polly Danger Notions- two handmade businesses where you’ll find dainty looking, hard wearing accessories and sewing goodies .  I live in a small town near Portland, Oregon, with my crafty husband, Eric (of LRhB Industries), and our motley pack of mutts.  I am lucky enough to have a romantic sunroom turned studio, where I while away the days making gorgeous bias tapes, sweet little wallets, and other lovelies.

I graduated with a degree in Creative Writing,  studied Japanese for three years, and spent my craft-formative years in Tokyo,  San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  With my degree in hand I found myself facing a bland world of cubicles and fact-checking- not the life I had envisioned for myself.  I made the drastic decision to throw my degree out the window and get crafty!  A few years later and you can find my craft writings  not only in this blog, but also at Crafty Scout, The Department of Danger, and at Indiemade.com.  I’m one crafty mofo, but think I did okay with that English degree, after all.

About The Polly Danger Crafty Blog
I’m  a crafter and writer with an appreciation for precious objects with everyday use, a passionate love for the aesthetics of times past, and a need to create and experiment.  This blog is dedicated to sharing the experimental, beautifying spirit with you!  You can be sure to find tutorials with simple steps that require basic materials, top notch handmade shop profiles, interviews with likeminded creatives, and a giveaway or two.

How I got the name . . .

Polly is my name (not my first name), but Danger is not my middle name.  Actually if you want to get technical about it, Polly is my middle name.  Polly Dangerous  was given to me by an awesome uncle when I was in high school playing bass in a punk band.  The name stuck.