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August
2003
Monday,
August 25, 2003
A Satisfying Sunday
I'm heading to bed after 7 hours of working on these. Bird bowls.
Yesterday I received my eBay
purchase of four dozen woven wooden bowls. Yeah, know those
wood salad bowls prevalent in the 70's? Well, I was looking
for about a dozen. I'm going to paint and decorate them to coordinate
with my jewelry colors for my upcoming shows. Normally, I just
show my jewelry in one big bowl that folks dump on the floor
and sort through. It sounds like anti-merchandising, but people
really like sorting through those little plastic baggies. To
keep the spirit of that, but be a little more organized, I'll
be sorting them by these
colors in 6" bowls.
Anyhow, I've got a couple dozen I don't need for that. Last
night, I painted 24 of them with two coats of white primer.
Today, I sat down with a three hour tape of IFC's
A
Decade Under the Influence. I knew I wanted to do
something with my collage birds. I made this orange/yellow one
and liked it so much that I made 11 more. I dig the fact that
they are made with Japanese, Chinese and Indian papers.
I've been working on those dozen bird bowls since 5 pm. I just
need to finished the black painting, add some silver stars and
coat the whole shebang with more gloss mod podge - but I've
gotten buy more.
Lovin' the design. Lovin' the Mod
Podge. Enjoyed A
Decade Under the Influence . Ready for sleep.
posted
on 12:35 AM
Sunday,
August 24, 2003
Playing with My Food
My carrot had a neck which inspired this radish, clove, carrot
person.
posted
on 5:07 PM
Wednesday,
August 20, 2003
Bumps and Blisters
The beading blisters are back!
Due to one
craft show coming up this fall, hopefully
another , and wonderful friends game to host trunk
shows this fall, I've been making jewelry again. I was on haitus
since I've got a bajillion things up on the
site, and sales are s-l-o-w. But I'm hoping to have
some good inventory turnover this holiday season.
With building the online
store, I realized that it really doesn't make sense
cost/price/timewise to put any jewelry piece on the site with
less than 5 of the same item. And right now, I'm using beads
and supplies I already have, which usually isn't enough to make
5 identical items. So, I don't intend to put much of these pieces
on the site - they'll be in the craft shows and trunk shows.
So here's one of the newest designs in a variety of colors.
This is ten necklaces all worn at once (each one has one of
the bumpy centerpiece beads):
Stringing these babies didn't build the blisters, it's the wire
link designs. If you want one, contact
me for price and payment arrangement.
posted
on 1:19 PM
Monday,
August 18, 2003
Look
See
The
online gallery of my sister's wedding is ready for
viewing!
posted
on 1:49 AM
Saturday,
August 02, 2003
The Big Ta Da!!
Heres' the finished quilt top for Burgundy and Mike's wedding.
I can only tease them with the quilt top. I'll take it back
home with me and get it machine quilted by someone in the know.
I hope to get the finished quilt to them before it gets cold.
Very happy with the results. I'll compile a project page with
more photos when I return. At certain point in the process,
I thought, "I can't believe I'm cutting up big pieces of fabric
into little pieces of fabric only to sew them into big pieces
of fabric again. I think I emptied about 6 spools of thread!
I didn't measure it one last time before I rolled it up for
the luggage, but it's roughly 110" square. Burgundy saw the
pic below, and said, "You must be sewing your butt off." No,
it's still there, but a little sore from the chair. She really
liked what she saw, but I can't wait to wow her with the real
thing!
The Smaller Ta Da
When Burgundy got engaged, I first thing she asked for was a
guest book. It was the last thing I got done. It's a big fat
accordion book over an inch thick with it's 100 pages. I printed
the pages of nice thick paper, with spaces for Name, Address
and Thoughts for Burgundy and Mike. Each 8 1/2 x 11" piece of
paper garnered 2 pages. I scored the page and a flap on the
right side. Folded them. Glued them together. I covered the
covers with black alligator skin origami paper, then a square
of the white page paper, then a square of the signature lizard
skin paper used on the invitations. A long, red ribbon was glued
into the back cover. The end product is a big fat impressive
book. But I'm really looking forward to setting out on the table.
I made it an accordion fold book so that it could be unfolded
down a table, so several people could sign at once. And conceivably,
if there are chunks of empty pages, I could take out the gaps
and glue the filled pages back together.
It remains to be seen in action, but I'm hoping for an innovation
to the standard guest book of lined pages where the first three
pages and filled and that's it. There is a chance I'll create
kits with printed page and instructions. If you dig that idea,
contact me, so I can tell it's a viable product.
posted
on 1:58 AM
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