Thursday, July 30, 2009

Quilts..Quilts..Quilts

I am currently working on 4 quilts! My creative juices flow in the summer when I have time off to work on many projects at once. I usually start a lot of projects and then finish them little by little through out the school year. Here are 2 of the quilts I am working on now.



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This is a circle quilt. I have it all sewn together and I am quilting it.

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These are my black and white blocks. That's as far as I have made it!

Here are some of my piggy banks. I have been making these for years. Someone gave me some cardboard tubes and I cut them up, decopauged handmade paper on the ends and then covered them with old quilt that I embelished. I have also made them with drawings on paper that were colored with Sharpie markers and decopauged. My students love to make and receive these!

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Here is my thought for the day..
The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything they have.
~unknown author

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Something New!

I have been working on storage for my art room at home. I bought a shoe holder and made it into an organizer for the back of my chair.



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Here is a pickle bucket a friend gave me. I just cut part of the shoe holder off and added some embellishments. Now I can store my ribbons and lace in it.
I also took a piece of the holder and made an apron with it.

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