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charming



Made these pendant/charms, I guess you could call them temporary jewelry. They're collaged out of paper, then glued between a sandwich of thick plastic laminate. I stitched around them a couple times to make them hardy, but they are in no way permanent or even really water-proof. Attached big jump rings and now I can hook them onto my favorite silver necklace. I can see them as key rings and luggage tags too.

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Collage


You can see this whole collage here. Love taking bits and pieces and putting them together where the whole is greater than the sum of parts. A lot like life, collage.

And a big thank you to my friend Suzanne (she lives just 2 doors down) who sent me two HUGE containers of scrap fabric, zippers, trim and even some yarn. Going to be using a lot of this in the future!

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Quilting with paper



Two recent paper "quilt" projects can be seen fully here and here. I am in love with them. Going to explore them for a bit.

I bought this book at the San Francisco Art Museum about 3-4 years ago. Instantly fell in love with the art form, started a couple, then discovered digital scrapbooking right after. It completely slipped my mind until I saw the Sew, Mama, Sew blog hosting February Quilting Month. Since all my fabrics are up 2 flights of stairs (can't climb them yet and unable to drive, ie: buy more), I wasn't really "equipped" to play along. I decided to "quilt" using paper instead and so far, these two are the results. Then, I saw a recent post on Ali's blog with gorgeous colorful butterflies that she was inspired to make after seeing these and it all seemed to say "hey, the universe is talking to you about the same kind of thing so listen up and give it a try." LOL, well, if the universe talked, I'm sure at that moment it sounded somethng like that. And I did order a butterfly punch because it is just too cute.

Spring is in the air. I can feel it :)

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