not your average book!

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It looked just like any other book...


( ”UNTIL!!” )

Even More Wooden Pendants!

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I'm really addicted to painting these things ...

( You love big pictures, and you know it... )

Dia de los Muertos decorations.

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I know it is late to post this but I figured hey why not.  I celebrated Day of the Dead this year (it was on November 2) and I spent the 3 days prior making decorations for my little shrine dealy.  My favorite thing though were these paper cut out skulls I made that had paper googly eyes.  I just used a bunch of different layered construction paper, highlighters, sharpies, and a glue stick.  The googly eyes were made by folding a strip of paper accordian style, then gluing one end to the base paper and the other end to the eyeball paper.  It makes the eyes stick out and bounce.  You can see the acordian fold on the left eye of the bottom skull.



Anyho, that is my little dia de los muertos craft project.  If you could see them in real life it would be better because the layered cut out paper is a really nice effect.

album(cover) leather/NEW/

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( Картинка 729x500, 108.98 КБ )

( Картинка 326x400, 48.00 КБ )

New machine.

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So I got a Bernina 930 for Christmas. My mother & grandmother found it at the thrift store for a ridiculously cheap price, got it serviced, & now it runs great. I had a lightweight Janome travel machine for regular sewing before (I've got a surger as well), so this one basically scared the crap out of me. It has, like, seven times the amount of knobs [& about a hundred different features] compared to the machine I've been sewing on for seven years.

Anyway, I'm finally getting acclimated to it & throwing together a late Christmas present for a friend. It has a lever that you can attach that allows you to lift the presser foot easily. I'm doing some detail work on this clutch I'm making, so it's coming in handy for making it around curves.

Now here's the funny part. I can feel my thigh muscles burning like they do after I'm doing yoga or pilates from the leg lever. HAHAH. I guess sewing handiwork is just as good as working out? Anyone else have a machine with this feature & have something similar happen? I just thought it was amusing.

If anyone's interested, I'll have some pictures of other finished work up in a few days probably. Other than that, everyone have a happy new year! Have fun & be safe!!