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Showing posts with label art market. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

More of Portland, Oregon

11:19 PM | Posted by Mel
When in Portland, we love to visit Powell's . They have a map of the whole store, several stories (pun intended). The rooms are all a different color assigned to genres.
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Musicians, vendors, food, loitering, street performers - a great place to spend a Saturday!
Another 'must' while in Portland, Voodoo Doughnuts!
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

What my hands have been doing

1:41 PM | Posted by Mel
This project is a first for me. It's a fabric post card. Tina, who I met though a secret sister swap months ago sent me a fabric post card she had made. I've seen the idea online before but hadn't tried it myself. When I received the beautiful one Tina made, I knew I had to reciprocate!
I couldn't wait to show the post card, so even though Tina has not yet received it, I have to show it!
I named the piece During the Night for a couple of reasons. I think the setting looks like a quilt emerging through a dark night and I realized that I had created most if the card during the late hours of the night, my best time to create.
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Tooele Arts Festival Find
If you read my previous post about simplifying, you may remember that I don't often purchase items unless I need them. Clarification: If the item is recycled, there is a chance I will consider the purchase. If the item is in any way associated with or contains Diet Coke, I'll probably buy it!
Christine recycles aluminum cans by using a die cut machine to create popular shapes then puts a magnet on the back. She calls it funky junq. I fell in love with the idea and of course the Diet Coke cupcake!
Other shapes available: turtles, cars, hello kitty, frogs, seahorses, motorcycles and on and on. One of my favorites was a pig that had been cut from the nutrition facts area of a can.
She uses Red Bull cans, beer cans, cans that contain tea as well as just about all the other fizzy drinks you can think of.
Check out her Etsy shop at www.funkyrecycling.etsy.com
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I don't know if you remember that I got an awesome book by Suki of transfers while we were in Moab (UT) a month or so ago.
I couldn't wait to try one out, I thought about stitching around the images with some embroidery floss. I love it!!
I still don't know what I'll do with this yet. I was thinking about making a small purse, or a pin cushion or . . . perhaps you have an idea?
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I've been making more wool covered magnets, they are easy to take along projects and I'm addicted to making them! I bought a bag of wool scraps (inexpensive) on ebay and they are perfect for this type of thing.
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I'm also working on my Basket BOM from Bunny Hill and will show you my progress on that another time.
While I sew and stitch I love to listen to audio books. I've recently listened to Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet, and am now listening to Fountainhead by
Ayn Rand.
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Sunday, February 8, 2009

A Day of Art

11:42 PM | Posted by Mel
On Friday I got to go to an Art Market in Sugarhouse (Utah) with my friends Kathy and Deanie (my mother-in-law). It wasn't as big as I expected, but I was inspired and glad I went. I did pick up a few items. The theme was Valentine's which is not my favorite so maybe the next one (in May) will be better. Kathy thought it might be fun to sell some of the baskets we make at one of the shows. It's a juried show, so we auditioned a basket I made and the organizer of the event said that she loved it and would 'accept' us as vendors if we wanted. We'll see, I kind of don't like my baskets going to people I don't know, I'd rather give them to friends than to sell them to strangers!

We also ended up at Pine Needles, a quilt shop and embroidery shop in Gardner Village. I purchased some fabric that I would not normally have bought, but I'm involved in Pat Sloan's Orange Challenge Sew Along February 20th -22nd, so I thought the pieces would work well for that.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Art Market in SLC!

3:04 AM | Posted by Mel
Yeah!! I just got an email promoting this and I'm so excited! I've heard of the ginormous art events that take place in Seattle and Portland and while this will probably be small in comparison, I'm looking forward to soaking up all the creative chi and balancing my artsy chakras!
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