we got a new pup!

annax's blog

at long last I have completed my pages in annax's retro bubbel gum chix journal, the them had me scared to death!!! I had a total creative block and in the end I did some crazy retro asian thing with flowers... it looks retro right?

Liz's blog

I cant belive that we only have 4 more months till the MMCA round robbin calender is all done! I cant wait to get my book back!
These are the pages that I did for Liz http://lizsmith.typepad.com/alterations/

A woman of valour who can find for her price is far above rubies

I wanted to stretch a little out of my comfort zone so I joined this fabric book page RR where each person got to come up with a them for there book ... well I was an easy girl and picked hearts and most of the themes are just as easy as mine ... well a few girls were a little more inventive with there themes and let me tell you that I was really taken back by Proverbs 31, I am a little ashamed to admit that I have never read it ... being brought up with an Atheist and a Southern Baptist, lets just say religion was a private thing and we were all allowed to find our own way. so I did my little goggle search for Proverbs 31 and was very smitten with it and came up with my little offering in cloth.

A woman of valour who can find for her price is far above rubies

I want to enter one of these for found object jewelry contest but I cant deside which one to use




"family ties" is a brooch and it uses an old tape measure and vintage button and snaps from my great grandmother button box the photo is scaled down from an original of a family portrait taken in 1915 just before she moved from Japan to the united states.





"Gifts from the Sea" is a necklace and I used shells and silk ribbon and brown thread, eyelet's with mica and vintage photos and book text.



"Dominos" necklaces made out of dominos emblished with buttons, fibers, vintage images, lace and inks.

behind me

the things I saw befor me and now behind me, and the things I saw behind me are now befor me.

Three Times

Three times... three times...three times... yesterday, today and tomorrow ... she was my friend.

a walk in my garden

My kids are away this week camping and it has given me a little time to reflect, and this morning as I walked around my back yard the light was dancing all around, dew droops still sticking to the leaves. its amazing how crazy and fast life goes by, but I do try to see all the wounder around me every day :)

Friends

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.



These are 4x4's I made them from a group that I am in, the them is earth tones. I spent the day painting brown background papers and lets just say I could smell the chocolate! I have become addicted to the photography of Julia Margaret Cameron and I have gotten into the wild little transiency fiber craze and I fear that I need to break out of it because all my work is starting to blur or maybe I need to just keep going with it and it will take me to a new place?

my shades of white book all packed up and ready to be sent off into the world to be filled with wounderful art!

wall hanging

i just did these sweet little wall hanging.