Fabric Book is Finished

Here are the pictures of my completed fabric book.  I may still go back and add a few more embellishments but for now, I am happy with it.  The pictures are in order as they appear in the book.  After the back inside cover i have added a few close ups of some of the pages.

close up of the cover

Fabric Book (in progress)

 I recently took a fabric book online class from Suzy Quaife. (SuziQu's Threadworks)
I have long admired her work and since I love fabric and book making, wanted to see her process.
So now I am putting together my version of a book in her style. I decided to start I would make a smaler book than what she did in her videos.  Suzi is from Australia so the measurments/paper size is different but you can easily figure it out via google :)

I still have some things I want to add after I do the initial fabric work and will post those when it's done.
Meanwhile,  here are a few pages that are in progress

Birthday card I made for my mother in law's 95th birthday.

Magnolia (Silos)

  

Gary and I decided to take a road trip to Waco on friday.  I had wanted to see Magnolia, but was holding out for the bakery to open first. (gotta have priorities)  Once we parked -(the baptist church across st has $10 parking) Magnolia has a free lot.  There is street parking and other parking if you look for it.   I noticed there was a line out the door of the bakery-and down the sidewalk.  We went to Magnolia first.  If you watch Fixer Upper then you'll recognize Joanna's style the minute you walk in the door.  The staging is really wonderful and there are many employees around should you need any help.  When you walk through the store there are a set of steps on the far side-these go in to a "lower level" but it's not air-conditioned.  Big door is open and fans are going but it's still warm with crowds and summer heat.

section of garden-each of the 4 corners had a fairy garden

  The grounds are wonderful-the large play area with balls,   black and white bean bag looking things to sit on.  Wooden swings, wooden bench swings, covered areas to sit.   Food trucks on site.  The garden store with the gardens outside (including little fairy gardens)  It's wonderful to see her vision come to light.
(again-if you watch the show, you saw this from the beginning)
I didn't take pictures of everything-you can see it on their website.
Besided, Maverick (see picture in sidebar) ate my phone thurs night-so I didn't take as many photo's as i might have.



 

Nuts and Bolts

 The bakery was wonderful.  The decor is black and white, antiques/vintage store look-with a modern update.  The cupcakes were fabulous (nuts and bolts for me)  We didn't try any of the other items but it all looked great.  Worth the trip-hope to go again in the fall when it's cooler. 

Drove by Clint Harp's store and home.

  We had lunch at Portofino (downtown)  We knew the owner when he and brother had restaurant in ft worth. His nephew played soccer with nathan in high school.  
  After that, we headed to another part of town and hit some antique stores.
It was a "good day to have a good day."

Catch Up Time

Once again I have gone much too long w/out posting.  I have made some progress on my art room
but I'm not where I want it to be yet. (meaning no pictures yet)
 Hot water heater died which is forcing us to clean out the garage-something we said we needed to do a year ago.  At least it is finally getting done.  I'm going to work on some projects that I put out there and just
"forgot" about.  My mom saved our baby bed-so when they moved I kept it with the intention of making something for each of us to hang. (rail sides and each end piece) I get one of each since I am the one doing the work :)  Got them cleaned up today so I can actually work on them.                    
  I also re-discovered some of my dead animal bones and my bundle. (disintegration)
So here are pictures I took. This one stayed outside well over a year-maybe closer to two.

here is the bundle before unraveling it.

pulled the twill out of the washer-chicken wire is already falling apart

unwound once

close up of washer sewn onto the fabric

very fragile

another washer and it's rust stain

cardboard is stuck to the fabric

texture-chicken wire, muslin, scrim, cardboard

totally unraveled

The Time Has Come...

to actually get myself in gear and clean/organize/purge in my art room.  I've said it before, started, put it off, ignored the room.  We've all done it.  Got shelf with fabric mostly organized.  Working on my table now.  At times i want to shove it all in a box and throw it away-probably wouldn't miss half of it.
Then i find something i forgot i had and it's like Christmas all over...

My table before.

My table as of now..at least i can see the surface

Here is my shelf with fabrics and sewing stuff-before it was crammed in all wonky and stuff piled up in front of the shelf.  Rest of the room is still chaos but i'm getting there.  baby steps...

Long Time Coming

My parents have finally moved into the house that they had built.  March 1 was the official move in date.
All those months of being their own contractor have finally paid off.  My sister, niece, her nephew and I drove out there march 16th to help with unpacking. (and again on march 25) I'll have to post more pictures once all the unpacking is done and stuff hung on walls.  every picture I have has boxes in it.

Front (sort of ) view of the house

back of the house

 I've also been trying to scan family photo's into the computer so we can all have copies of them.  We've come across some we have never seen before.  Really makes me miss St Louis.  I often wish that we hadn't moved away and that I had grown up there along with all the other cousins and family.

My grandmother-Clara Adams and neighbor. (good friend of the family)

Luther Montgomery on the right (grandfather) he had such a wonderful smile and laugh. (his brother on the left)

Luther and Clara on the right (brother on left)

Montgomery family (minus my mom) 717 Ruprecht in Lemay M

issouri

My grandfather, aunt, grandmother, aunt and uncle
luther, norma, clara, linda and kevin.  Quite the dapper family. Easter maybe?  (grandpa didn't go with them to church)

On a Roll...

While in the middle of cleaning my art room (which is put on hold again) I started making some fabric collages. Here are a few-in progress.  Some estate sale finds-fabric, lace and buttons helped motivate me to get back to this ~ I intended to finish some i had started years ago-but ended up making new ones.  I also intended to make mini's.  These are turning more into "mediums."

when you wish upon a star...

 I will post more as I get them finished.  They will probably end up in my etsy shop.

same image, different style...WIP

I think this one is done.

still needs "something"...