Atti’s first Christmas. And he’s not so sure about all this. Paper: Scenic Route, Making MemoriesRub Ons: Scenic Route, American CraftsSticker: American CraftsMetal: American Crafts, Go WestButtons: EK SuccessStamp: Scenic Route
Brightening up with new pillows
I was never truly happy with the pillows I did the first time around. I ended up with too much brown in all of them, but the ones I loved the best ended up somehow being the exact color of…
Fixing up the clothes
In that pile of clothes I bought at the Goodwill a few weeks ago were a few things that needed a little help. This tunic and those black pants are both double knit, indestructible, polyester. Oh I have a weakness…
Mondrian Quilt Top
Piet Mondrian. Composition: Light Color Planes with Grey Contours. 1919. As a comparison, here’s the original piece. I made a to scale replica of this painting in quilt form, and I am just so dang impressed with myself. I made…
Personalized KitchenTowels
When you work with teenage girls as long as I have, you get a whole lot of graduation and wedding announcements in the mail. The timing worked out just right so that in moving back here, we were able to…
Quilt in progress
So along with gallivanting through the countryside and embarking on complicated furniture builds, the other thing that kept me distracted from my typical blogging duties was this Mondrian quilt I finished designing last week. I can. Not. tear myself away…
Modern Art in Quilt Form
Having so thoroughly expressed my love for midcentury design, it should probably come as no surprise that my favorite painters come from the modern art category. I love the art nouveau work of Klimt, I love the whimsy of late…
Beadwork Inspired by Art
When we came up to Modesto in the beginning of April to look for a house, I was having a really tough time with the fact that we couldn’t find anything. So I took myself for a little date to…
Fine Art Beading Project
This is one of those ridiculously large scale projects I got underway last week. It’s something that’s been kicking around in my head forever but I can only now get around to it because I planned it all out, but…
Productivity in Procrastination
I spent all last week staring down the calendar and wishing I could ignore a deadline. I was very nearly successful, too. Irreantum is a literary journal for a Latter Day Saint audience, and every year they hold a contest…