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photo friday - rural

I really like this photo, the perspective, saturated colours and the shadows.  I was told these are grain bins.  Perfectly lined up and identical yet they have a rustic quality due to how they have weathered.

Photo taken in Alberta, Canada on the way to Drumheller, September 2003.

lulu guinness birdcage bag

Fabulous!  Now why didn't I come up with that?  This birdcage wrapping paper has been in floating in my head for several weeks but I never made the leap to handbag.  So great - go Lulu!

illustration friday - flight

This was one of two collages I did a couple of years ago for a nervousness.org exchange.  In the end, the creator of the LMAO made copies of everyone's work and had them bound into these amazing little booklets for us. :o) Crissy

collage - paper (click for larger version)

illustration friday - year of the rooster

(click image to see a larger version)

Happy New Year!

rainbow pouch

I saw a really neat pleating technique on a skirt while in France several years ago and have been meaning to attempt something similar since that trip.  Well, this was the week I finally tryed it out.  It was very time consuming, even once I had figured out how to do it, but it turned out not too bad.

I used a rainbow stripe material so I wouldn't have to mark out all my folds and so, when the pleat was folded back, it would add a little fun to the design.  The same material was used, unpleated, for the lining.

It has been about 15 years since I inserted a zipper into anything and it was not so easy for me.  Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that, instead of using a pattern, I just made things up as I went along...  I wonder... ;o)

carmel cat

I had much fun at Amanda's last night although lets just say my knitting skills are, well, not exactly skilled.  Next month I think I will be bring along an embroidery project.

Here is one of the presents I brought for Miss Amanda.  The image is an illustration she did which I silkscreened onto carmel cotton velvet and then sewed up into a jaunty shoulder bag.  I love velvet but I do not enjoy sewing it as it is sooooo shifty!  Thank you to whomever invented basting tape.  In the future I must attempt to limit the use of velvet to small accents and not the whole project.

I will be making up some similar ones in different fabrics for the site so stay tuned to get your Amanda/Crissy original!

Awwww, cute!  I just looked at Amanda's journal and she posted pictures of the bags I gave her there.  Yay!

Claire from loobylu.com posted January's softies - all 130 of them!  Amazing!

:o) Crissy.