Art Skins

I found out that you can make skins for your high tech toys, so I immediately ordered one for my phone. This is a piece of art that I uploaded to Snapfish and manipulated to get it where I wanted it on the phone. You can also make them for your pc, so that may be next. Now my phone is also my art!

Paper Cloth Names and Winner

Wow--what a lot of fabulous ideas! I love many of them and others make me laugh with prior associations. Some of them I can't pronounce! Here's the final list: clothinpaper, material medium, altered paper, mache, fusion material, colabric, paperic, papyric, papterial, fiber too, papclo, clopap, clotper, fiber-cloth, faber, faper, pafab, plypaper, kelliabric, celluabric, papyrmus, fabaper, sewpaper, papersew, artfabric, stitchpaper, papertex, fabricpaper, paperfabric, caliper, fabricaper, quilting paper, sewable paper, fusion fabric, othpa, re-cloth, cloper, woper, fiper, paber, capag, capgu, woven paper, structural paper, foundation paper, fabpaper, paperized fabric, paperized plypaper. Whew! I'm leaning HEAVILY towards stitchpaper for probably obvious reasons. I love the word stitch. But I also like fusion material, material medium, quilting and sewable paper and I love paperized fabric. I'm gonna still mull it over for a bit, but the winner of the DVD is vintage rock chick Gill! She has an awesome blog so check it out (see her link in the comments).

I've been working on some paper-cloth projects like this journal purse and enjoying the summer!

Peace, Bake, Sew Stuffies

I finished my personal stuffies printed at Spoonflower. Each was cut out, embroidered, beaded and stuffed. We have Peace Kitty (holding a birdie) and Peace Birdie (holding a kitty); Bake Birdie and Bake Kitty holding cupcakes; and Sew Birdie and Sew Kitty holding enormous spools of thread. I love doll forms but like for them to stand up, so I ended up making my own stands as I have done in the past. These were super simple. I created a small pocket on the back of the doll and stitched it on. The stands are simple shapes from the wood aisle at Hobby Lobby...a round beveled base, some wooden spools and dowels that fit into the spools. The spools are glued to the base and the dowels cut to 6" and inserted into the spools with glue. I used E6000 because I don't like to clamp and wait for regular wood glue. For a couple of bucks you can have personalized doll stands easy as pie. Paint them any color you'd like!

Our EMT Girl

Things were pretty exciting around here last week when my 18 year old became a certified EMT (Emergency Medical Technician)! She was nail-biting over the nationals. We helped her study and it was an impressive amount of information from every working system in the body to drug interractions, plus legal issues and just generally what to do in every emergency situation you've heard of and tons you never imagined. She's off to paramedic school next month. We are very proud of her!

Holiday Gifts 2009

The Quilting Arts Holiday Gifts Issue is available for pre-order now. I made these delicious no-cal cookie pins for all you sugar addicts out there. We might as well wear our passions on our chests. Cookies. Yum! This ish looks great--check out the link. I WILL be making Melanie Testa's cool name badge holders, as I am always going to conferences and wearing those geeky clear plastic monstrosities. Can't wait to see what else is in there!