journal entry: I am in the middle of re-decorating in “flea market style”. Grandpa is an incredibly good sport. Part of the “style” I am working towards includes the collection and decoration of world globes. My blog is like a journal. It helps me keep track of things I love and things …
journal entry: Easier than the last batch of cushions. For sure. This was Afton’s birthday cushion. I made it and she loved it. She plopped right down on it. That is the test. Two 36″ circles of duck fabric. One for the front and one for the back. Poly-fill. Lots …
journal entry: As I continued to prowl around for Bristle Animals for my new Christmas Nativity, I found two very angelic raccoons. Perhaps they didn’t look very angelic when I found them with their black masks and shiny, black eyes, and bushy, striped tails, but, by the time I added …
journal entry: Christmas Trees. Most people have one. Some trees are live and some are not. Ours is not. It is covered with ornaments that children love. Dinosaurs, snowmen, monkeys, frogs, camels, children, treasures, knights, robots. Chains of pearls and garlands of colored circles. Candy canes. This and that. …
journal entry: Swans. Swimming and sailing and sweeping through the sky. Companion print to the multiplying giraffes which is found on this site in another post. I wanted puffy and poofy. I wanted someone I love to feel that the swans in the clouds were holding her up. Finished and …
journal entry: We know there were shepherds watching over their flocks by night when the Angel of the Lord came before them and made them sore afraid. I don’t know how much those special lambs understood about their role in this wonderful, real-life Christmas play, …
journal entry: I took my time. Isn’t that what we tell children to do ? My vision was a Nativity made up of Bristle Animals. First, I had to find them. That can be a trick. Then, I had to bring them to life. Bristle Animals can bend. They are expressive. …
POTATO BUGS. The joy of little fingers. I found this illustration from a children’s book and saved it. {I don’t know who the artist was but if you know, please tell me.} When it came time to make t-shirts for our Family Gathering, I thought that a family of …
{ hair made from curly dollar store ribbon attached to a headband looks like ringlets, doesn’t it?} Oh, my goodness. This was FUN ! Photo Booths and Backdrops are quite the rage. I wanted one that I could use over and over. That is because I thought it just might be …
” Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” -William James- This funky quilt needed a funky label. This illustration by the wonderful illustrator Yaniv was perfect. I have several Yaniv illustrations saved on my computer in Picasa. They are such happy and interesting illustrations and …
