Photo Fun!

I recently snagged some old photos from my mom to copy and display around my home.  I'm also thinking of using them on future purses, pillows, etc.  Here's an old black and white that I made blue and put in color flowers.  The bride is one of my grandmother's sisters.  She was German.

I played around with the next photo for a friend.  She saw a photo of a sweater I made and asked if she could have it.  This is her in the sweater... 

Well, she lives in a Victorian home and loves everything from that era, so I took a copy of a painting by Harrison Fisher and dubbed her face in.  She loved it! 

New magazine, "Creating Vintage Charm".

The spring issue of this magazine, due out 3/15/2011, will have one of the purses I created in it!

Creation of a purse begins...

Since I have all this new found space in my craft room, I put on a little Louis Armstrong and began working on the purse for a relative.  Here's what I have so far...

The blue roses will be the theme.  I plan to add beads, more ribbon, some needle felting and even some paint yet.  Keep checking in with me to see my progress.

Clean start for 2011!

I'm feeling great!  I've accomplished cleaning and reorganizing my craft room in one week!  I can now move my sewing machine from the kitchen table to the craft room!  As I was cleaning I found some old photos that I printed and framed for around the house.  It feels so good to have accomplished this!  I have MS and having the energy to do anything comes in spurts.  Hope I can hang on to this spurt for a while longer!  

The day AFTER the Super Bowl? Where was I?

I'll tell you where I was.  Cleaning my craft room!  And I'm not done!  I'm working on an order for a felted bag and I need my supplies to be organized.  The last time they were was last November sometime... I think.  I'm awful at being an organized crafter.  I try to make my room look like those in that magazine, "Where Women Create", but just can't seem to get there.  Trouble is I do so many different things, make jewelry, crochet and felt purses, flowers, etc., and I have my computer desk in the same room.  It's handy that way for printing photos and such used in my art.  I used to draw portraits and have thought about getting back to it... but where?!  I out grew this room a long time ago.  I did buy a pretty box today to hold some supplies.  I want to be better this year!  More organized!  Get a creative routine going where I create something every day. 

I did redecorate my home with some fresh spring type pretties.  I realize I have a lot, but it's so hard to part with any of it!  The photos here show part of my bedroom.   There is also a photo of the bag I crocheted and felted.  It's for a family member graduating high school who loves roses of any kind.  She's on my husband's side of the family and I've never met her, but I think with information given me I have a good feel for what she likes.  I'll post more photos of the purse as I work with it.  I have until April to complete it.  Sorry... for some reason I can't upload a picture of my bag right now. :(