Welcome Spring!

It is time to finish planting my seed trays and start turning over the garden beds ...ahhhhh

Garden Journal Altered Book

This is the front cover of an altered book I've been finishing up this past week. It has been a fun project to celebrate the change of seasons. I used resin for the first time in a book, embedding pussy willow catkins in a frame.


The book is filled with my own digital photos taken in my garden. Mostly pictures of the many different birds and butterflies that live in, and visit the garden.



I tried a different way of putting this book together. I took out all the pages of the original book and then stitched my pages into the old cover and spine, also using text from the old book to add detail to my collaged images.

Rust Dyed Fabric Swap

I received this beautiful fat quarter of fabric in a Yahoo Group Swap. It was rusted by Sue Cottle and came to me all the way from New Zealand!!
It is a silky, slinky poly fabric and this photo doesn't do it justice- it has deep, rich color. I took a quick shot of it outside in the wind just before the snow came.
I never even thought of rusting anything but cotton fabrics before joining the Rust Dyed Fabric Group.