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In Interests of Full Disclosure

Posted in Art/Craft Fairs, Process on October 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »

My studio does NOT always look like this! Here it is, (minus the diet coke cans, they had to go, they were multiplying without me) right now:
I’ve got this evening, 2 full days, and 2 more evenings until it’s time for my largest show of the year! YIKES!

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Guest Post on Hue

Posted in Clothes, Color, Dyeing, Process on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Hello again! I’m a guest poster over on Hue, the color-centric design blog of Rachel Perls. She’s on vacation in Tuscany, lucky gal, while all I’ve got is this shirt:

Actually, my post is all about trying to match hues on silk, rayon and cotton…go take a look!

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And now for something completely different!

Posted in Bags, Fun, Process on August 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Well, the end of the summer is fast approaching, and for me, school is rearing it’s ugly head. I’m definitely going to be slowing down on the blogging front, because work is really starting to pile up!
Although I’ve thanked you all individually, I’ll do it again right here: thanks so much for your advice on [...]

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Lots of pieces!

Posted in Going Green Journals, Process on July 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I know this doesn’t look like much, but this is all the fabric pieces, properly cut, fused to interfacing (the outside pieces get interfacing & batting) for 30 new journal covers (still need name!). It’s the WORST part of making, and the more I make at a time, the longer it takes! AAAHHH! Lets see [...]

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“Candy can’t come to the blog right now…”

Posted in Nothing in Particular, Process on June 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

“…she’s too busy cutting & fusing right now. Please leave a message after the beep…………BEEP”!

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Introducing…Eco Covers!

Posted in Going Green Journals, Process on June 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »

What are these? you ask!

Do you remember the notebooks I won the other day? They are made by Ecojot, a Canadian company makes 100% post-consumer recycled paper products. And although the covers are beautifully designed by Carolyn Gavin, I have been searching for just the right notebooks to make covers for! I love making notetakers [...]

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Getting it done.

Posted in Home Dec, Process on June 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Big surprise…the more time I spend surfing the web, the less I actually get done! With the countdown to vacation at 10 days, I’ve really got to put my nose to the grindstone. I kept blog reading to a bare minimum yesterday, only reading the blogs I’ve put in a special category called “1st read”, [...]

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Getting unblocked

Posted in Home Dec, Process on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Lisa Call wrote a post about being blocked last night (scroll down it’s at the end). I wrote such a long response to her that I though it blog worthy, as it speaks to where I’ve been lately!
I too get blocked when I have so many things that I want to do, and some silly [...]

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Good to Know

Posted in Process, tagged creativity, Process on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here’s an amazing project started over at pikaland, with advice/inspiration from artists and other creative folk. Their 1st topic they cover is about overcoming a creative block. Amazingly good advice!
Good to Know: Issue #1

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