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    Goodie Prize

    December 29, 2010 - By 

    A few weeks ago I entered a Christmas giveaway hosted by mixed-media jewelry artist, Diana Frey.  Low and behold…I was actually one of three lucky winners.  The UPS man brought me a nice package yesterday afternoon while we were moving tons of snow off the roof and then again off the driveway and sidewalk… JOY.  I knew as soon as we got done, that package was waiting..made me work a little faster.

    Just look at the bounty that spilled forth from the box…

    I had to stand up on my sewing chair to get far enough away to get it all in one photo.

    Diana must have known about my love affair with pink or else it was just kismet…  Lots of pink fun stuff to use!!

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    Art Journal remake

    September 28, 2010 - By 


    A while back my good friend Elizabeth sent me one of her wonderful sewn art journals as a birthday gift.

    You can see the first set of signatures here and the second set here.

    She lamented over and over about how much she hated the cover she made for mine. She even told me that I should try and fix it.

    I love the inside covers as much as she did but the covers were over-sized. We talked about how I might be able to salvage the insides while doing the remake.

    Time passed…I did nothing.

    But now I’m really wanting to start a journal so I figured I’d better listen to Elizabeth and refit the cover.

    I carefully cut the “spine” from the rest of the cover salvaging as much as humanly possible of the gorgeous inside fabric.

    Since I seem to have a thing for denim, it seemed the natural choice for a scrappy cover.

     

     As you can see I used Elizabeth fun hand-dyed fabric with pen pockets on the front inside cover.

    And her even more impressive bird mono-print with pocket on the back cover.

    I made a flower from the lace to cover the sewing of the closure strap and added a vintage button for interest. 

    Now time to get writing…

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    Baby Shower Gift

    September 12, 2010 - By 

    My next door neighbors are expecting their first child so I decided to make them a diaper cake. I received one at the baby shower my co-workers threw for me and thought it was really a cute idea.
    Her shower is today so I can finally show my creation. The wrapped package behind the cake is the second set of diapers that came in the jumbo box.