New Notebooks - one with a "Face"

This will probably be a short post.  I recently made two new quilted notebook covers.  

The Sugar Skull is my face to this week's Friday Face Off. 

So I am entering the Friday Face Off. 

The total outside of the other notebook cover is made of fabric that I painted with fabric paint.

The "white" was painted directly using brushes and other tools.

The "green" was painted using a diluted paint as a fabric dye. 

 I love both of these.  Contact me if you would like purchase info. 

Sorry, I can only ship within the USA at this time.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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The Faces of Creativity

I love to think of myself as a creative person.  I feel that I do have a creative soul.  For me creating is a "need" more than a hobby. I have a need to make things whether it is useful, or just because I can.  My need to create started when I was young - I think in the pre-adolescent years.  Certainly in my teen years I always wanted to make things.   This has continued in my my current "senior/elder" years.  

Over the years I have used my skills to make things for myself as well as for many other folks.  

So, today you are going to see some photos of me.  I will either be near or wearing one of my creations in each of these photos. 

A T-shirt embellished with a band of fabric that I wove on my loom.

Holding a lap quilt that lives with one of my dearest friends.  I love seeing it when I visit.

A vest made totally from material that I wove on my loom. 

Here I am wearing a shirt that I embellished with more of my woven fabrics.

I am standing in front to two pieces of art that I painted. 

And how about "creating a character" in a local play? 

By the way, I did NOT drink the elderberry wine. 

And in the play I had to use a product to make my hair that white.  Ha ha. Now that is the usual color.

For this same play, we needed a "stained glass window" for the door. So, I created this one. 

It is actually painted and created on a piece of plexiglass.  
I made two of these, one for each side of the door so that when the door was opened, 
the audience saw the "same" stained glass. 

I am linking to the Friday Face Off.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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Friday Face Off (and final October Finishes)

For October, I finished five new notebook covers. I love them all a lot. One of them has a "face" which is very appropriate for the end of October/first of November.  (Halloween/All Saint's Day) 

And here is a close up of the one on the right.

I love mixing machine embroidery quilting with hand guided free motion quilting. 

You can see that they play very nicely together. 

Now,  here is a "face" - or at least I saw a face as I was looking out the window at Mom's house. 

The tree and the open spaces seemed to be looking back at me. 

Do you see a face?

I am linking to the Friday Face Off.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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Friday - FaceOff and Notebooks

I have been working on a few things and haven't posted any of them.  I did post photos of some fabric that I painted. Today you get to see what part of that fabric became. 

This notebook cover uses some of that painted fabric. These notebook covers
fit a standard Composition Book. Those are readily available in the USA. 
I always sell them with a notebook inside ready to use, but the cover can be taken off
and placed on a new composition book when that one is finishd.

Inside the front cover of each one there is a pencil pocket and my label.

Of course the back is just as pretty. 



I have two more covers in progress. Here are photos of the fronts and backs of them.

Front 

Back

Front #2

Back #2

And now for my face creation.  This is the last Friday before Halloween, so I am sharing my Halloween "Face"  for this weeks Friday Face Off.

Happy Halloween

And for good measure,  here is another face that is not so scary. 

I am linking to the Friday Face Off with Nicole. 

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative    

             

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