Paper me

At work we have these really cute paper doll kits and I was doing samples of what they look like and decided I needed to make one of Me, Ryan, and our little kitty Sushi.


I also have been decorating my art and sewing room and made this bulletin board.


While I was painting the wood panel Sushi decided she wanted to jump on top of it. I grabbed her before she could get to the carpet. However, her paw prints were left on my art table and I thought it was pretty cute and kept it.

New Home!

I've been a little busy the past few months with Ryan getting hired by Apple, moving to California, getting a kitten, and starting my new job at Paper Source. Well, I'm am finally getting around to updating. Here are a few things I have been working on.

These are some flowers I learned to make at work.

I wanted to add a little Halloween spirit to our house so I made a skull garland to go around this awesome monotype my friend Amy Royer did that I have hanging in my living room.

This is a stamp I made as a sample for the stamp carving class I'm teaching.

Buttons

A few weeks ago my husbands grandmother Beverly came and visited us in Idaho and brought all of her old sewing stuff to share with me and my very creative sister in law Maureen. My favorite thing I found in the boxes were buttons. I have been a collector of Buttons for many years but Beverly's contributions at least doubled my collection. I now have lots of sewing and art to do in order to use all these awesome and unique Buttons. This is one of the pieces I made using my sewing machine with gold thread to decorate the Grey felt I had which I then embroidered the stems and putt button flowers on.

Back to monotypes

Well I decided to do some more monotypes recently. It had been almost 8 months since I did my original set for my BFA. These ones are a little different since they are on a 30x22" pieces of BFK instead of fabric. The nice thing is the colors show up a lot richer on paper. However, they will be a lot harder to sew on my sewing machine.

My Socks!

I have been making lots of sock animals lately...

Happy Valentine's!

I thought my little apartment needed some cute Valentine decorations so I cut out a bunch of felt hearts and sewed them together last week. They are now hanging over out living room window. Now that its after Valentine's I'm going to have a hard time taking them down because I like them so much. Well I hope everyone had a great Valentine's day. I know I did because Ryan and I found this in Idaho Falls...I think this was Ryan's second happiest day of his life!

My New Toy!

I just bought a saw and besides my staple gun it is my favorite toy. Isn't she pretty...Well I used my saw to make some frames for my little collages. I just used wood molding I bought from my local hardware store and it was the perfect size. Here is what the finished project looks like.