Postcard/ATC trade at Eliza's

Gina's ATC's/cards
(Heyyyy - they go together!!)

Gina's postcards

Belinda's postcards

B's postcards

B's postcards

Eliza's ATC's

B's ATC's

B's altered book beginnings

Eliza's altered book beginnings

Jackie's altered book pair beginnings

Our workspace at Eliza's

Eliza and B

Fresh Design - Fiber Art in the New Millennium

On Friday 7/27/12, Belinda and I along with my granddaughter, Kailee visited the FAU Second Avenue Studio in Ft. Lauderdale for the Florida Craftsmen show Fresh Design. It was beautifully staged with good lighting and pieces were clearly described. Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed the visit!

 Irene Munroe

 The white pieces were nylon that had been burned/melted. The box frame on the left held a mass of the burned pieces that curled up like dipping corn chips.

 Below is a landscape painted with paste paint.

 Below is "Gina's Wall"

 The piece below was so intricate in construction but it somewhat mimicked the paper chains we made with chewing gum wrappers.

 Below is the final piece that LeeAnna asked advice about at the last Fiber Guild meeting regarding the construction.

 This piece was so heavily stitched it must have been stiff with threads.

3 supplies - round robin postcards

Live, Love, Laugh
round robin postcards

3 supplies?
(Yah, right!!)

ATC's, postcards, UFO's

Completed Doodle projects by Elizabeth, Belinda, and Jackie
Gina's doodle shoe tops below.

Gina's backpack - front side

Gina's backpack - rear side

Jackie's doodle fish ATC's

We're exploring the idea of swapping ATC's at the first meeting of all of us in the fall. (one AYE  here! anyone else?)

Gina has suggested we each independently work a project from a magazine for show and tell in the fall. (great idea!)

Collage that is ART IMHO

Here is the blog for Sandra Vandergeest who makes some of  the most beautiful collages I've seen.

http://sanartydesigns.blogspot.com/

What do you think??

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy

from Wikipedia

The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy is a series of three bestselling ^]epistolary novels written by Nick Bantock. The novels in the series, Griffin and Sabine, Sabine's Notebook and The Golden Mean, were first published in 1991, 1992 and 1993 respectively. Each story is told through a series of letters and postcards between the two main characters, Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem. Every page features a facsimile of a postcard or a letter actually enclosed in an envelope.

Shoe & Bag Embellishing Day 6/5/12

We spent a gray day using very bright and happy colors for our shoe and bag embellishments. These pictures however, are unembellished....

Belinda and Gina get to playing.

Jackie "poses" with her perfectly prepared  tools.

feet don't fail me now...

 Gina's very Mondrian shoe forms.

Under the sea with Jackie's colorful fishes

Belinda's progress for the day - looks great!

Our next OT on June 26th - location TBD.  will be alphabet soup with ATCs and UFOs on the agenda.

Fun times!