dream lost

This is my page for Reiny's Dark journal.
This is an amazing little book with 7 artist and just one more person left to work in it before it goes back to Reiny, its such a jewel to hold its a 5 x 4 accordion style book that she made her self.

it looks like its all fiber but the bottom layers are mulberry and velum papers and I used twlinking h2o's on top the heart is black felt and the image of the woman is stamped on coffee dyed Muslim with vintage tooling on top embellished with handmade lace and pink silk trim from a vintage wedding dress. there is a little compass trapped in-between the felt and the tooling.

Russan Byzanite 1895

This is a fabric 5x5 the theme was metallic architerture... I was looking for the images for this the same time that I did vintage new york that is why they are so much the same.

shades of white 4x4

I must be gearing up for a fabric square swap that I sinned up for because the last few things that I have done have not used a droop of paint... I have been burning, stamping and coffee dyeing fabric and lace and floating tiny bits of fiber, buttons and beads between layers of cloth and mesh.

Christine's New York RR Journal

I just got done with this journal Christine's them is New York and I did a vintage twist on her theam, I played with alot of coffee staned and stamped cloth and I am happy with how it turned out.

Art in a jar swap

This was really hard to take a photo of becuse I used a transparency for my fairy image and placed words around the jar to tell a little story then I used strips of cloth, fiber and beads to make a nest for the little fairy.

positvie thinking

"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can
do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your
seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."
~Julia Cameron
Author - "The Artist's Way"

Charm Swap

Against my better judgment I hand cut 21 heart charms with tin snips from a can (its all the rage you know)! And lets just say my hand after 3 days is still killing me! I did them for a charm swap that Tammie Moore is hosting. all 21 of the charms are the same and have 2 side's they have a little mother of pearl button with a pice of coral and a little bit of yummie brown fiber on them.

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: use your eyes
as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method
can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the
song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would
be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your
tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with
relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste
again. Make the most of every sense, glory in all the facets of
pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the
several means of contact which nature provides."
~ Helen Keller