Month: November 2010
-
1987 Christmas ornaments
In 1987, with two toddlers underfoot, I didn’t get much accomplished. I do remember decorating grapevine wreaths as Christmas presents that year. While collecting supplies, I found these two small heart wreaths and decided to use them as ornaments. I didn’t have many art supplies available to me, so I used some markers to color…
-
1986 Christmas ornaments
Christmas 1986, DD#1 was nearly 23 months old, and DD#2 was 3-1/2 months old. They must have been napping because somehow I made two ornaments for each of them that year. The first set was made from some pretty baby booties that they each wore. The second set was made from some baby blocks. I…
-
Christmas memories
I’ve always enjoyed Christmas. I love the reason behind it, and I loved sharing the excitement with my kids as they grew up. Each year I made an ornament for them. Sometimes it was something that related to their experiences that year, sometimes it was something I was interested in or experimenting with, sometimes it…
-
Black Friday 2010
My favorite fabric store, Fabric Shack in Waynesville, Ohio, thoughtfully had a Black Friday sale yesterday. Since I missed out on the little netbook I wanted to buy, I decided to console myself by making the thirty minute drive to see what they had on sale. I was hoping to beef up some of the…
-
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Hope your turkey was yummy 🙂 We had several friends over to share our meal. We ended up with ten people in all. Our dining room isn’t quite that big, so we re-arranged the house and moved the dining room table into the living room, and we moved the chairs from…
-
Fabric stash reorganized
I’ve been having so much fun reorganizing my fabric stash. It’s almost as fun as shopping and adding to my fabric stash! Either way, I enjoyed running my fingers over all that lovely fabric, and sorting them all by color family. It gave me time to reunite with some beautiful favorites. I put everything away…
-
Sorting fabric
Yesterday I cut more paper swatches from my Color-aid pack, mostly in the muted tones. I sorted to my heart’s content and then glued the color variations for each hue on a different 12″ by 12″ paper. There were fourteen sets of extended colors in all, which basically covers both color wheels since cyan and…
-
Color Wheels
I’m still playing with the paper from my Color-aid pack that was left over from college. All the pretty colors! Since I’m an organizer by nature, I really appreciate how this pack of colors is organized with the entire range of pure colors, tints, shades, and tones. I decided to make a few color wheels…
-
Color Chart
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with color. I finally remembered the ridiculously expensive pack of Color-aid paper that I had left over from my college classes. It has a huge range of colors — 312 in all. I thought it would work great to make my own color wheel but when…
-
Lorain County Piecemakers
Yesterday morning I had the priviledge of teaching a “Making Faces” workshop for the Lorain County Piecemakers, and then I spoke at their guild in the evening. We had such a fun time! These are a few of the portraits that were made yesterday. A couple of others were still putting on the finishing touches…