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hello again, mccall’s 7646

July 26, 2009 at 7:17 am | In FO, crafts, sewing | 1 Comment

i FINALLY picked up some yardage so i could make a real version of mccall’s 7646, instead of a test version.

two FOs and some raw materials

July 12, 2009 at 9:59 am | In FO, collage, crafts | Leave a Comment

another felicity hat!

black and periwinkle, using the leftover yarn from the other two felicity hats i made for myself. the birthday girl was SO happy to receive it, since she was coveting my hats.

yesterday, we went to the library and i popped into the library bookstore to see if there were any old books i could use for arty crafty stuff. i found two winners:

the mel bay book is old and the pages are a little brittle. perfect for any number of collage projects. and mel is a very deep, thoughtful guy. just look at his photo!

did i mention the booklet is kind of old?

and i’ve already used bits of both books in a new artbook collage.

book pages, magazine pages, colored pencil.

froghat

July 9, 2009 at 2:30 pm | In FO, collage, crafts | Leave a Comment

i have no idea what prompted me to turn a frog into this kid’s hat.

birthday card collage – magazine and book pages, canceled postage stamp, on cardstock

sometime this weekend, i’ll have to post the birthday girl’s gift. nothing fancy, but it is handmade.

the past week’s FOs

July 4, 2009 at 8:38 am | In FO, collage, crafts, painting | 1 Comment

i 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.