I recently got a volunteer position to teach refugee women sewing skills. This is exciting!! It’s like getting a promotion. Last Friday I met a handful of the women. Their English is limited, and teaching them will be very interesting and very special to me too. It’s going to be a privilege to work with… Read More Teaching sewing multiculturally
A recent trip to New York City gave me an idea for postcards. I usually don’t collage paper, so this was a good practice for me. I used paper by KaiserCraft – Base Coat Collection, Tim Holtz – Distress Collection, time tables for train schedules that I picked up in NYC, and letter stamps.
We got out our Halloween decorations today and were trying to pretty up our front porch. I have a jar of fingers and eyballs and other small human parts made out of rubber. Kind of gross! But fun! Here is also a couple of Halloween themed necklaces, the little pocket-like ones I made with stamps,… Read More Halloween
Here is something you can make with your old jeans that are destined to the thrift store. Cut up the legs and make mini tote bags. Last year I made a bunch of these and played with decorating them using free motion stitching. I sent them off to GreenCraft magazine and was delighted to see… Read More Tote bags
I am pretty sure that eventually I will give resin a try. For now, I’ve been soldering again. Using the glass gems from few weeks ago, this time using my own doodles for images, instead of cutouts from already printed pages. The weather is cooling off here, and by that I mean it’s been below… Read More Zentangle and soldering
Sometime it’s easy to forget about work you started. You get sidetracked by other things in your life and what you started stays unfinished for some time. When it gets somewhat old, it’s hard, for me at least, to get excited about it. So I better finish before work gets too old. These were missing… Read More Mini quilted necklaces
I’ve admired art journaling for some time now, and I finally braved up to give it a try. I took a workshop today at Frenzy Stamper, from a talented and famous local artist, Dina Wakley. I arrived late, because I couldn’t find the tub of gesso I bought for class. And as I sat down,… Read More Art Journaling
I used some old comics and glass gems from the floral section at the craft store. I like the distorted look, without messing with real resin.
It’s been some time since I’ve played around with soldering. Yesterday after dropping the kids off to school and coming home to a quiet house, it seemed as a good opportunity to solder. I used some scrapbooking paper I had on hand, but added stamps to it. See I must add a little personal touch… Read More Soldering
Sharing some good news with all of you kind folks who stop by to check out what I am working on. 1. GreenCraft will have some of my work in their next issue coming out in November. 2. SEW Somerset will have some of my work in their next issue coming out in December. I… Read More Good news!
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