That's me - Karen. You know, when we received the awesome box of goodies from 42 Below Vodka (it's the black box under the Bloody Mary pictured in this post), I was more excited about the box than the freebies. Not kidding. Now, had they left the miniature vodka bottle in the box, things might be different. But alas, they didn't. I do plan to alter the box...at some point. And when I do, I'll post it!
Well, my crafting started early. Heck, it's hard to not craft when you come from a waste-not-want-not mother who was one in a line of waste-not-want-not people. Add to that a grandmother who crocheted, another grandmother who was a seamstress, a mother who made many of our childhood clothes (don't worry, I'll post about that sometime, oy), an aunt who also was a seamstress, another aunt who is a bonified artist, and well, what other choice did I have?
I learned to sew at an early age. I think I was maybe five. I'm still amazed that people make it to adulthood without even knowing basic sewing, like sewing on a button. How does that happen? Anyway, when I was eight or nine, I got my first sewing machine for Christmas. My sister and I spent that night intently sewing new projects on the dining room table. Mom took pictures of this adventure and a few years ago I turned these pictures into pages. Here they are:
Yes, we need a spiffier camera. Especially since I messed up and deleted the copy that did not go through our photo editing program and thus had to send them through again to add a watermark. The problem with doing that is that it makes the quality even worse. Ugh. Sorry about that!
When I look at these pages I think of several things: (1) these pages took me forever to make, partly because the crappy sewing machine at the retreat I was at broke halfway through stitching and I had to hand stitch the rest (2) man I had some bad hair!, (3) I love the vintage feel of the pages, and (4) I really need to stop hoarding the remaining SEI flocked paper that I have (that I used for these pages) and make some more cool vintage pages. These pages are some of my absolute favorite pages. I guess I really should frame them as well, nothing ever makes it into an album in this house!
Here's a detail shot of the squares with flowers and brads. I made these shortly after my first Tim Holtz class (I love you Tim!) and used Ranger's paint dabbers for the big Bazzill chips.
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