Round Robin- in progress

This will be a 3 page spread but I'm a bit stumped about the 3rd page so I am putting it down for a day or two and then I'll dive back in. I know I'll go back in and work on the bee sting page but it's a nice start. Now if the middle page would pop into my head I would be all set. This is Kathy's journal and the theme is tribes. I didn't want to do anything literal so I brought up the themes of friendship and the hive.

Happy Solstice

I wanted to make something fun with a summer theme and fresh fruit popped in my head since I eat a ton of it. You almost have to force feed me vegetables but fruit I will gladly eat all day long.

I started putting things together a couple of months ago letting the perfect things fall into my lap so no pressure. I mixed the fruit with a picnic theme (small journal, marshmallows, chocolate, tea, animal crackers, candy, napkin, tea strainer, book, fold up bag and lip balm). I figured that they were all perfect for one of my friends and her birthday is next week so I packed it up and shipped it off to the east coast.

Happy Summer. When is the sun going down? I want to go to bed (smile).

Mail day

I've taken a little art break to work on putting packages together. The top package is on its way to Maryland to visit my mother. It contains the round robin journal that I have going with my mom and a Mother's Day gift from my sister. The gift arrived a couple of days after she left so I was tasked with sending it along and it just fit.

The bottom package is going to my round robin partner in Canada. I did an ode to the book inside. I haven't done color blocking in a long time and I just found my pack of sticky back paper. Sticky back paper is my one pleasure in the scrapbooking asile.

I have two more packages in the works that will go out in the next few days. I had to shop for baby clothes this weekend. EEEEEEk. Painful if you don't have kids. So many little expensive choices and some of them are impracticle. Why would you make linen pants for a baby? I loved those pants but I wanted the baby's mom to talk to me again so I didn't buy them.

I leave you with a lovely summer salad. I love a picnic.

Bunny love

I love layering tracing paper over fabric. I'm still working out the details for creating the translucent aspects but I like the mix so you can see the layers but it may be fun to see it to fully blended. Clear gesso works on fabric but it produces cloudy effects on darker fabric so gloss medium works best for this.

sending this off to my mother in the morning for our book exchange

Round Robin

The first book for the round robin came this week and since Erin allowed us to do whatever we wanted in her journal the sky is the limit. I'm still on my bird kick, tip it's all about the shape of the head. Then I cut a hole which was originally a photo album type look but it was kind of boring. As luck would have it I saw something on printing with feathers. It was kind of hit and miss but I'm going to practice the technique a bit more and use it again. It was actually able to do it in Starbucks with no mess and only one brayer. They just installed bar type seating and it has a little shelf under it so I put the book on the shelf to dry. I'm debating adding color to one of the pages but happy about the way it turned out over all.

This journal belongs to the lovely Erin Kenepp who I actually met a few years ago at a Sabrina Ward Harrison weekend. The weekend was super amazing and intense and highly recommended if you ever have the chance to go. Erin's blog is located here

Happy Saturday.

This is why I walk 10,000 steps every day. One of the ladies at the Farmer's Market makes fresh blended teas and lemonades. Plus more than one booth has French pastries. Luckily all that sugar killes my need to have lunch. Fantastic. I hope the sun comes out today so I can take some pictures.

We are going to hit a garden center/ craft center and go to a comedy thing.

Pamphlet stitch and Cross Stitch

Pamphlet stitch and Cross Stitch

I'm in the process of debating if I want to take a book binding class this weekend. I have a few books on book binding and I started doing some of the traditional bindings to give myself a little training. At the begging of last year I started binding books by figuring out how to get the finished product just to see if I could do it.

I was talking to someone today about the book Re-bound (using recycled material to make books) and she was like can you follow the directions in the book. Yes you can but you do have to read them a couple of times. i can learn faster visually but I trained myself to learn other ways as well.

I rarely get anything when I read it the first time so it's just habit to read things 3 times and force my brain to push past that point where it shuts down. My brain doesn't love directions. My brain also doesn't love going outside of my comfort zone but I've learned to go beyond that point. I kept thinking about math today when I was working on the cross stitch book.

The cross stitch book cover isn't finished but I wanted to sew it so I could work in it. Dinner Time.