Thanksgiving

I want to thank Divinity today, though there’s no Thanksgiving in Spain, the present is always a good time to say thank you. I want to say thank you for music, as neither me or my husband could live without it. Here are some moments of perfection in Rock. Danzig – I Don’t Mind The [...]

Read Full Post »

News And Updates

With so much going on in my life, it may seem that I’m going crazy with work, but the truth is that I’m not. Proof of it is that I found time to make this embroidered ornament (15 cms. wide, bigger than a cd) for a friend’s birthday yesterday. I wanted to make something special [...]

Read Full Post »

The Book Of Roses

Made two weeks ago, but I couldn’t show it until it arrived to its recipient in Estonia. Originally a cigar catalogue (handmade cigars are one of the Canary Islands specialties), completely altered on the theme of vintage roses. About thirty pages, plus fabric-covered covers. Can’t wait to find more books to alter, it was such [...]

Read Full Post »

It Wasn’t All Frills And Pretty Little Girls

As Victorian reproduction artists, we all love roses, tea cups and chatelaines. They’re probably the most beautiful, dainty, tiny things we have ever seen. Me, I have rose prints on almost every room at my home, and quite a few printed reproductions of more roses, pretty ladies and lovely things scattered around. But Victorianism (saying [...]

Read Full Post »

Experiments In Fabric Printing

Printable fabric is very hard to find here in Tenerife, and/or very expensive. I don’t like the plastic look of fabric transfer paper, and it’s not easy to sew beads (or anything) to it because of that plastic texture. These last months I have been making more crazy quilting and sewing than ever in my [...]

Read Full Post »

Sad But True: Helpless Against Copycats

Empress, The Seed – OOAK work by Lorianne Jantti. This is the first time I write bad words about anyone on the blogosphere, but I couldn’t let this pass unnoticed. This morning I got an email from Amy Sperry Faldet, a flickr friend who owns a group on fairy-themed jewelry. She was worried about some [...]

Read Full Post »

Contrasts

Embroidered cards with vintage playing cards as backing. I like to make this little colour/contrast exercises, as if they were miniature paintings. It is always inspiring and stretches my view. To my shame I have to admit I am completely stuck with the Pink Christmas challenge at ECS, so instead of letting frustration grow, I [...]

Read Full Post »

From Ugly To Pretty: Bag Makeover Process

If there is a satisfying task for me, it is making something beautiful out of something ugly. I always forget to take pics of the “before” item, and my best friends always scolds on me saying that people wouldn’t believe the way things looked before :) . Along this weekend, in the middle of the [...]

Read Full Post »

Unity ATCs

Today Kim’s Newberg’s collage group is hosting and ATC workshop – I couldn’t help jumping in! Workshops are fun, you learn a lot and get the chance to see amazing artwork from other members. Kim made an excellent tutorial on the basic process of making an ATC and invited all the members to make one [...]

Read Full Post »

This And That

I’ve been working on a big project this weekend – as it is a gift for someone who reads this blog I can’t show any pics until it’s sent and received! I’ll show you some “this and that” instead. Halloween was such fun – we had dinner with friends and went to bed almost in [...]

Read Full Post »