Posted in Making Art with the Little Lady, Motherhood, My Art Projects, That Lady Can Paint, Sew, Sculpt..., tagged children's art, illustration, illustration friday, ink, pears, rainbows, watercolor on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My contribution to the Illustration Friday theme of: Wide. Each week a theme is chosen for folks to contribute original paintings and illustrations. I made a few versions of the same design, playing around with color and her profile. When I was little I had a shirt with a rainbow that went across the chest and [...]
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Red bird takes flight
Originally uploaded by wholeclothdesigns
Every spring our town has a giant parade called the Procession of the Species. Folks dress up in homemade costumes based on the four elements, play drums and dance. Half the town is in it, while the other half watches. This year was the first time for our family to be in [...]
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We’ve been visiting family in Colorado this week. While I was working on a little hand-sewing, my 11 year old niece came up and started asking about what I was doing. Judging by her questions I could tell she had never tried to sew. I promptly gave her two scraps of fabric, thread and needle and gave [...]
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I am discovering that I sure do like procrastinating. I have the goal of completing a quilt by the end of the month that is fairly intricate even though it will only be crib size. It has a lot of hand-embroidery, which I’ve completed, and has yet to be hand-quilted. I need to finish before our trip [...]
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Inspired by Uncommon Grace’s photo project and the wonderfully delightful writing on toddler rearing from Write, Mama, Write, I wanted to share a little about my Mogs.
She’ll be turning two this week! I cannot believe how amazingly tender a soul she has. Although our first year together was challenging (since I had PPD), I feel [...]
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Mogs had her face painted for the first time this weekend. She sat very still and looked so serious. She liked the two cherries—and, of course, immediately wiped her cheek.
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Although it has been so sunny beautiful outside, it was also 18 degrees this morning. Mogs and I stayed in and made a bouquet of egg carton tulips. I’ve missed out on 25 years of playing with pipe cleaners, so I’ll use any excuse to dig them out now. Mogs is interested in our camera and helped [...]
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Mogs made this drawing the other day:
She tells us it is a picture of the moon and a snake. (The snake is the little squiggle in the lower right.) Lately she has been imitating snakes by sticking out her tongue and pulling it back in really fast. So far her drawings have been about horses [...]
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Posted in I Am A Sewing Machine, Making Art with the Little Lady, Making Crafts!, My Art Projects, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged I Am A Sewing Machine, Janome, middle school, sewing machines, Singer on December 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been using this ancient Singer my mom found at a yard sale forever. It jams, it sputters, it rattles. I get very angry with it.
My new machine! She’s a Janome Magnolia 7330. Not too fancy, which suits my pretty basic needs, but she has some cool stitches, auto-back stitch, does three kinds of button-holes and [...]
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