the past week’s FOs
July 4, 2009 at 8:38 am | In FO, collage, crafts, painting | Leave a Commenti finished several small projects over the past week, but one of them is a birthday gift. i’ll post that after the birthday pal has received it.
in the meantime, i finished an altoids tin collage:
magazine/catalog pages and glitter.
and then i re-purposed a small canvas (i just wasn’t happy with its previous incarnation):
4″ x 4″. acrylic paint, modeling paste, applied in multiple layers, sanded, sprayed with alcohol, etched with a chopstick, and generally beat up. the sides of the canvas have little bits painted on them, too.
my part is done
June 28, 2009 at 7:36 am | In FO, crafts, sewing | Leave a Commentmy part of the “pads for crafts” swap is complete.
10 sets of pads, wrapped up and ready to go. i can’t wait to see what i get in return!
all lined up
June 23, 2009 at 6:57 pm | In WIP, crafts, sewing | Leave a Commentstacks of flannel pads, waiting for snaps to be set.
another batch of pads on the table
June 19, 2009 at 3:26 pm | In WIP, crafts, sewing | Leave a Commenti picked up some sale flannel last weekend so i could start a big batch o’ flananel pads.
i’m about halfway through the first set of three. i still need to serge the inserts, set the snaps and trim the loose threads.
\m/ rock star!!! \m/
i’ll be trading sets of pads to friends in exchange for art/craft pieces i can hang in my apartment. it’ll be known as the “pads for crafts” program!
your source for animal booty
June 14, 2009 at 8:44 am | In FO, crafts, non-craft | Leave a Commentyesterday, we braved cruddy morning rain and overcast skies and headed down to the san diego zoo. we hadn’t been down there for a couple of years, so there were a few new things to see. the new elephant enclosure is HUGE! it’s a far cry from the tiny yard they had before. we’d let our membership lapse since our last visit, so we had no clue that there were even any plans for such a big project. now that our membership has been renewed, we went back to check it out. and we saw:
panda booty…
and panda side.
gorilla booty…
and gorilla side.
llama booty and llama side, all at once!
along with monkeys and baby flamingos and tigers and camels and… well, you get the idea.
and when we came home, i sat at my craft table and worked on a new bit in the artbook:
i’m not 100% sure that it’s complete yet (as usual). i’ll come back to it in a few days and see how it feels.
31 may
May 31, 2009 at 12:35 pm | In FO, crafts, sewing | Leave a Comment
this is officially my last “every day in may” post. i came pretty close to blogging every day this month, so i’m happy. plus i did a lot of crafting, so score two for team life with monkey!
today’s post concerns fabric flowers. i made my first batch of them just about 20 years ago, when i became deeply interested in millinery. i found the directions in the trimmings section of one of the few millinery how-to books i was able to find back then. they’re quick and easy and versatile. the only limits are the fabrics and notions i have in my stash at any given time. here are a few i made and sewed to a velvet hat (also made by me) in the early 90s:
millinery velvet, taffeta, vintage buttons… simple design, kind of classy, kind of funky.
yesterday i pulled this piece of vintage kimono fabric out of my stash:
and turned part of it into this:
with beads and felt and a pinback, i have a new accessory for my red corduroy coat.
oddly enough, this is the first time i’ve made one of these flowers with leaves attached to it.
i think i like it.
29 may
May 29, 2009 at 3:12 pm | In FO, collage, crafts, food | Leave a Comment
whoops – i missed another day! i spent yesterday afternoon with another birthday celebrator, and this active little doglet:
and here are the last two cards in that batch i made:
and here’s some baked sweet potato falafel i made earlier this week. YUM.
before baking:
after baking:
not a big difference in color there after baking.
ok, one more look at the puppy (his name is maté):
27 may
May 27, 2009 at 2:25 pm | In FO, collage, crafts | 1 Comment
one of the collaged birthday cards has made it to its final destination, so here goes:
yes, that’s Luke Perry, from his glory days in 90210. the rest of the items are magazine pages, a map and a san diego bus schedule.
26 may
May 26, 2009 at 5:08 pm | In FO, collage, crafts | 1 Comment
a two page artbook spread…
magazine, book and catalog pages, gesso, oil pastels
25 may
May 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm | In FO, crafts, knitting, painting | Leave a Comment
i was BUSY yesterday.
knitted a few roses.
decided to do something with my old “where’s waldo” t-shirt.
and i got an idea and shot a crappy photo of my right hand.
and i used that crappy photo as a guide to draw my hand onto the non-sticky side of the backing paper from that printable fabric i used to make wallets last weekend.
i think i should’ve ironed the painted part of the shirt before i pulled it over the dressform. but hey, no biggie. it was a fun experiment!
i also worked on a collage, which i may or may not finish tonight. gotta love those long holiday weekends.
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