I’ll be celebrating my beautiful red hot mama’s 90th birthday with her this weekend. I feel so lucky to still have both my parents and that we will all be eating cake together. My mom was always a wonderful seamstress. Self-taught. She made this cute red velvet hot pants set […] Read More
Here’s my second tarot card bag. The material was from a remnant pile: gold velvet and green satin. Then a few bits and bobs to decorate it. I thought it was finished, but then decided it needed a little more detailing and added the gold cord. On to the 3rd […] Read More
This is the first of three tarot card bags I had started pre-move. I’m back to my project list now and have completed this first one. Two more to go. Maybe today as the snow is falling heavily.
I’m playing around with a gallery wall. Not sure if all the frames should be consistent or if I prefer a more eclectic look. I have a long, blank hallway wall and I think I’d like my family photos greeting me as I enter and leave my home.
There isn’t much assemblage involved in this project. I bought this vintage arch to put behind my bed. It still has a few cathedral glass pieces in it. My new apartment complex has a real convent or monastery quality to it as one dear friend pointed out – and this […] Read More
We bought a loom bench for our loom at work. We tried out a piano bench, but needed something more adjustable to accommodate the different heights of our novice weavers. This one is by Jane Stafford Textiles on Salt Spring Island. We made it nice and comfy with a small […] Read More
Last April I posted about a ‘zine I had done based on The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris. This year I bought the beautiful wall calendar from the same folks. I usually do an end of year photo album or scrap book and ‘zines are a new […] Read More
Befriending was my theme for 2024. It was a challenging year and I would not have gotten through without my close friends, the angels who walked with me through the death of a dear friend and then a very stressful move. But I also worked on befriending parts of myself […] Read More
Here’s another basic weaving activity. According to the internet: “God’s eye, or Ojo de Dios in Spanish, is a spiritual craft made by weaving yarn around two sticks that are crossed to form an X. The craft is common in Indigenous and Catholic communities in Latin America, Mexico, and Peru. […] Read More
I had a visitation recently by an extremely large spider. In my bedroom, on the curtains, right before bedtime. I didn’t think of it as a visitation at first, more like an invasion. It vanished before I could locate a trap large enough for it. My usual Lee Valley one […] Read More