Fabric journal workshop at Cottage Flair Rotorua 3rd August

 

A Fabulous day was had at Cottage Flair on Saturday the 3rd of August, 7 ladies constructed their fabric journals. They had all choosed some gorgeous fabrics, and had lots of embelishments to add to the pages. Thanks to all the ladies for coming along it was a great day. Cottage Flair is holding another workshop on the 29th of August which is a Thurdsday, 9.30 till 3ish. Im looking forward to teaching another group of ladies.

Family Recipe Book

 

Ive just finished stitching up this Recipe book. Its covered in a beautiful book cloth my friend Heather, she got it in Singapore. Im going to fill it full of Family recipes. Make in a real treasure.

 

One of the pages inside. Its my Nannies recipes. Its even her in her car. And a group of them on a boat.

I stitched a bit of her lace to the page to.

 

These are recipes form my mum. She used to cook loads of things in her presure cooker.

 

I made the pages different colours, so I could match them to the recipes?

 

The back page has a photo of my mum and dad.

 

More recipes to add. Id like to get family members to write their own favorite recipe in this book. Make it a real family heirloom.

Rescued journal

 

I created this journal for a customer that wanted to write up her memories for her Grandad when he was in the war. The title of this book was "5 Brave hearts" It just seemed fitting for her Grandad. I hand dyed the pages and then machine sewed bits and bob on each page. leaving enough room for her to write her Grandads story. I even found a vintage pencil and a hand made jewelled cross.

Art Cover Exchange

                                 This envelope I decorated in a Military theme for the recipient

                                            These were some envelopes Ive jsut posted off                  

                                    Rocket Man was for Cal who likes space related covers

                                             These are the cool envelopes Ive received

                                                  A cool end of the world cover

                                               And lastley a Year of the Snake cover.
Ive just joined an Envelope swap group A.C.E (Art cover exchange) www.artcoverexchange.org  
All the people in the group swap decorated envelopes with each other. Usually on the theme we each like.
But sometimes on what the postage stamp has on it. Like the Year of the Snake envelope. Pam matched it with the postage stamp. Most of the art is hand drawn or scanned images of an original piece of art from each member. I like to add washi tape and other bits. I think I will bind all the envelopes I receive together using the "Coptic" stitch. Once I have enough, that is. With the "Coptic" stitch it can be a progressive stitch, adding another envelope when I get it. So in the end (where ever that is) the book will resemble a snake.

Zine Swap

 

First ever "Zine" swap Ive participated in.  Its an A4 page folded to create a wee book.

Although the book is a craft style book, it comes under the common name of chapbook.
It is a very old style of publication, simple but stylish to produce.
And very easy for one to create something, that actulary turns into a book. I create one original, photocopied it in colour 5 times and sent it off to my  Karen at
www.iamrushmore.blogspot.co.nz  who is hosting the swap. I hope to get 5 "Zine's" in return. Ill post the images of the 5 I get in return when I recieve them.

International Mini book swap photos

 

Here are the rest of the Mini books we swaped with our Canadian/Australian and American participants.

We have our next swap organised for August. The theme being "The Sea" Im just gettting details orgained and then we will all start creating again.