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Downtown Olympia
In my studio-drafts and scribbles of a small instruction booklet. If you wanted to learn about sewing oilcloth-I can share my experiences. I’ve done it for a really long time!
Color coded steps. Little drawings. I think it’s important to start sharing what I know. If you learn to sew, think of all the things you could make! Bags, clothes, Art. <3
Capitol Campus Olympia-Today
Spring. Cool breeze. Bird songs and buses.
I could take pictures all day! Back to work…sigh.
Little, Homemade Books
My dad is still recovering from a horrendous spinal infection he unfortunately contracted in 2008. We thought he was going to die when he spent two weeks in the ICU. He remained a quadrepaligic for almost 6 months. I made him a sweet little book to help him smile while he was in rehab.
This project is fairly easy and takes a little time to sew together. I checked out a book from the library about making handmade books and fell in love with this design. It looks like a “star” when open.
The materials you will need are:
Pictures of your choice Ruler Card stock paper Cardboard
Decorative Paper for the Back and Cover Ribbon Grommets
Glitter Glue Scissors Sewing Machine Thread
She Came Out of the Closet
Early Century Dos Chicas circa 2007–Little sweet purse made an appearance out in the world today for the first time in god-knows-when. She was warmly receipted.
A custom order came out of the venture! Huzzah! or however you spell it… 🙂
Shoulder purse with Sacred Heart
’cause that Catholic stuff is still in me.
Close-up
The Hamms will love her Buddha. What am I talking about??
Kindergarten Art
Inspired by thoughts of Spring I thought I’d share this idea. Sorry the pics aren’t the best. My digital camera is dead so my phone camera is all I have right now. After weeks of heavy winter sub-freezing temps and snow like Olympia hasn’t seen…ever, I think, I remembered this fun activity and made a friend a birthday present. It was one of my all-time favorite art projects in school. Did you do this in kindergarten, too? 😉
Materials needed for making this project:
scissors
sheet of regular or craft paper, any color
wrapping paper with an image you like or
draw one of your own 😉
Mod Podge or Elmer’s Glue
Unsharpened Pencil, Chopstick, or Pen
2 inch x 2 inch tissue paper squares (or other lightweight paper)
Ability rating: Super Easy. Hey, I made my first masterpiece at age 6! *grin* Here’s how I did it:
My mom sent me a Valentine’s Day gift all wrapped up in pretty paper with hearts and daisys. I cut the squares apart and used a purple daisy as my “base”. I glued it to a piece of journal paper and let it dry.
Then I took a tissue square and put my pen in the center of it. I wrapped the tissue around the pen so it looked like this…
Then I dipped a little glue on the flat bottom of the tissue and placed it on my pattern. I held it in place for a few seconds to help it set, like this…
It’s best to start in the middle and work your way out and around. Place the tissue as close together as you like. You can even change the dimensions of your squares if you want. Some of my squares were cut bigger than others so the surface is uneven, but I kind of liked the look of that. Here’s a photo of the pattern before I started gluing and the finished product….
Pretty, huh? As you can see I took artistic license and used green, orange, and red ’cause I felt like it. I tore out the journal paper that I had glued my pattern on and then cut around the square. I gave it to my friend that way, but you could try using something to hang it up. She really liked it and she’s a kindergarten teacher so this was the perfect gift for her!
One thing to mention is that your pen, chopstick, or pencil will start to get glue on it since the tissue is so fine. I just rub the glue off with my fingers or a rag. If you happen to do a project inspired from this, share it! Or if you come up with a great display idea, share that too. I would love to hear from you.
Spring’s a comin’. Hang in there and make something beautiful for someone…everyone you know needs it more now than ever.
“Pay it Forward 2011: I promise to send something handmade or homemade to the first 5 people who leave a comment here. The item will be of my choosing and I have until Dec 31, 2011 to get it to you. You must in turn post this and send something you make to the first 5 people who comment on your status. The rules are that it must be handmade/homemade by you and sent to your 5 people sometime in 2011”
2010
I won’t go into the past year and a half. Let’s just say it was a really rough time and I am getting back to work. 🙂 Yay me
I am concentrating on Dos Chicas again and have some fun, new ideas to incubate.
Once every three years…
One very important responsibility bestowed on me three years ago was organizing my mom’s family reunion. It was a lot of work, but is there a better thing to spend your time on than family?
Usually we have 3-5 day gatherings, which is hardly enough time to do and see everything. Today is the last day and we had so much fun eating, visiting, and being outside in our glorious summer. I love getting reaquainted with everyone and catching up. I love the hugs, the laughs, the stories and being entertained by my crazy uncles.
I always get sad the last day because everyone heads off on their separate ways, but I feel so honored that these people traveled as far as they have to come up and see this part of the country. Thanks everyone for being the awesome people that you are. See you in Little Rock (oh-ten)! ha
picture credit to Uncle Florida