Having a hard time separating myself from the books that don’t have a “near future” purpose and don’t have much of a redeeming value that anyone else would want them. To reduce the length of the post I’m sending this in two posts. #1 shows the finished project. #2 shows the process. Stand as assembled. The elastic serves…
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In my case this Buddhist Proverb couldn’t be more timely… 1. I came across a book binder on YouTube that put together awesome instructional videos of various book binding and case making techniques http://www.youtube.com/user/Ceropegia?feature=watch. Sage Reynolds, the book binder, has an impressive list of videos, take a look. While I knew (or have seen in the…
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Having finished the portfolio I was feeling pretty good about getting back into cutting and gluing stuff together again and wanted to get right back into another project. I save scraps – can’t help it. Some time ago in an effort to clean out my side of my husband’s garage I started to throw out…
Read MoreYa Hoo! I received my confirmation from Arrowmont of my upcoming class “Books-Leather Binding Thru The Ages” taught by Jana Pullman http://www.westernslopebindery.com/index.html I figured I should put aside my jewelry and sculpting supplies and bone up on book board and book making. I chose to start off with a handmade portfolio that would house a lined…
Read MoreLook what I found! No not tulips. I just threw in this picture of my birthday flowers because they were pretty and I didn’t have a picture of anything glued together. HA! I found (it wasn’t really lost) a web site that let’s you input the type of material you want to glue to another type…
Read MoreAnother one of my gifts (to myself 😉 was a weekend art class… A serendipitous search of the Internet led me to a weekend class being taught by Sandy Webster only 1 1/2 hrs away from my home at The Creative Arts Center in Dalton, GA. “Building Boxes: Creative Spaces for Small Collections” Two important items…
Read MoreThat’s TRUNK, TIARA BOX AND TU TU’S… The descriptions, techniques and supplies are lengthy so I put them at the end of this post with more pictures… Aluminum Trunk Tiara Box Magic Princess Tu Tu TRUNK (as pictured on it’s side) 26″ wide x 16 1/2″ high x 10″ deep: This is an aluminum salesperson’s trunk we…
Read MoreRenovating this Music Box was a lot of fun. In the next few days I’ll post the Tu Tu, Dress-Up Trunk and Tiara Box that were made to go with the music box (some days it a very thin thread for me 😉 Spark (more like an explosion) of an idea: My granddaughter loves to…
Read MoreWe had dozens of floppy disks (they weren’t really floppy – they were 4 x 4 hard disks). I hesitated to throw them away because although we couldn’t get information from them anymore some clever thief might find them in the trash, have a relic of a computer laying around the den and get all…
Read MoreNote to Self on making this year’s Christmas Cards: WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING?!! My muse really got me good this year. Usually I get the urge to do what my friends do so beautifully – make Christmas cards. I’ll make a card or two, they don’t look near as impressive as theirs do and I…
Read MoreWhen we bought our house 8 years ago the kitchen pantry shelves were sagging in the middle. Always the crafter…we put chair legs in the center to support them until we updated the kitchen and decided if we were going to move the pantry. Well, one year turned into eight and we still have a three…
Read MoreStars made from pages of books, magazines, cloth, ribbon – just use your imagination for an easy, fun, rewarding, project. Technique for “making stars come out at night” is towards the bottom of this post. This is the first star I made using 1″ x 8″ strips cut from an old dictionary. After that I reduced the…
Read MoreI’ve been sooooo busy (Ha). Thought I’d share a past project with you while I get pictures together to post about my work with leather and my jewelry made with repurposed floppy disk parts. I make my grandchildren a christmas ornament every year. This was last year’s ornament for my grandson Martin who LOVES sharks.…
Read MoreI picked up the Flea Market Style magazine at the hardware store. Holy Cow! There were some really neat ideas in there. Below are pictures of some of the things I’ve done with “other” things.1958 Chevy fender wings ($1 ea at a car swap meet) = coat, bag hanger Fireplace Mantel ($8 at garage sale)…
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