A few years ago I started talking with my friend LeighAnne about working out a license agreement. She makes the most incredible maternal art that is often embroidered on bags. I was so excited when we worked it out for me to be able to use her incredible artwork.
We also talked about doing a trade when [...]
Archive for April, 2008
A little bit or art for me
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My favorite book
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am so proud of this one. I really wanted to combine the beautiful Bluegrass Moon artwork I am blessed to be able to use, with the woven cover I learned from Pam Sussman.
I have been trying to think of the best way to do it. I didn’t want to loose the beauty of the texture [...]
My artistic journey
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Chris’ comment on my blog got me to thinking about how I decided to start bookbinding, and my artistic journey in general, so I figured I would share it.
I remember when I was young loving to doodle, and do artsy type things. I was very excited when art was a choice in junior hight school and [...]
It worked
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the reasons I love binding journals, is after the journal is bound I have this incredible canvas that I can work with.
When Pam Sussman taught us to weave the book cover, I really wanted to figure out a way to be able to do that and still leave an area for me to [...]
More inspiration from Artfest
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Before I left for artfest I had a bunch of covers covered in fabric and all ready to go for mini journals. I came home ready to use the new binding techniques I had learned, so I pulled out all the ones that would look good with ribbons and then started looking for matching ribbons [...]
An Artfest inspired journal and a few ramblings
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, yesterday Maren said something that made me think, “yep she is my child.”
My mom had called me to see if I could go to Michael’s and look for cute boy themed 8″ X 8″ albums. When I told Maren what we were doing and that Grandma could find lots of girl ones, but no [...]
What a nice surprise
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really enjoy teaching, but I haven’t been able to since Stiles was born. So when a mom at my daughter’s homeschool resource center asked me to show her how to bind a book, I was thrilled to be able. These are some that she just made on her own and posted. They look great and [...]
More artfest details
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I personally thought the weather was perfect. The sun was shining most days. It was chilly, but that is to be expected in Washington in April.
I couldn’t believe the fabulous bag of goodies waiting for us at check in. It was all in this cool white tote with the logo on it. The tote was [...]
Artfest!!!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Last week was one of the most incredible weeks.
When I was getting ready to go to Artfest, I debated between staying on campus or booking our timeshare for the week. I chose to book the time share. Then the debate was, do I stay by myself or do I invite others. I knew that if [...]
