Cordage from Grass
Making cordage is much easier than it looks. Really. I am going to experiment with various plants in my garden and see what I can do. First up is the lightweight grass that comes up in spring. You can watch a video of how I made this cordage from grass right HERE.
Cordage
I recently took a class from the fabulous artist Alice Fox and she taught us the basics of making double twist cordage. We started with big pieces of material until we got the hang of it (that would be the blue on the far left) and then she left us to our own devices to …
Stitched Journal Covers
I made these journal covers to go with the 5 journals I made to celebrate a major milestone on YouTube – reaching 5,000 subscribers. It was so much fun to work on these covers in my weekly Livestream so that folks could see them come into being. You can watch a video flip through of …
A Corner of Nature
Here is a flip through of my newest nature journal. I call this one A Corner of Nature.Though she be small, she is mighty and has a lot of writing space. 7 inches tall by 4 inches wide.Single signature with 17 pages, folded in half so front and back you have 68 pages in total. …
Stitched Sunset
This is a little stitch meditation I did with some of my dyed fabric. It’s about 4″ square. Perhaps some day it will get stitched to something larger. Or not. The joy was in the doing.
Garden Joy
This a pocket-sized book of positive nature quotes to pick you up and make you smile. It measures about 4″ x 3.5″. and is made from my painted papers with one of my original photos on the cover. This little book just oozes positivity. It’s a perfect size to tuck in a pocket or a …
A Tiny Green Book
This itty bitty tiny book is 1 ” wide and 1.5″ tall and has 14 pages. The pages are many layers of paint and filled with words and images from a vintage dictionary. If you love miniatures, you will enjoy this little book.
Amazing
Mixed media on canvas with an excerpt from an original poem.
Blue Meander Book
This little book folds up into a tiny 1.5″ square. It is a called a meander book and is designed to be read in any direction, left to right, upside, and backwards. Unfold it to see it all. This particular meander book features vintage photos of people reading with unique quotes about reading.