Comments on: Gettin’ scrappy

By: becky

becky — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:32:05 +0000

I am totally using it to save my fav pics of the boy & writing down little memories of what he does. And hubby says I should do something like this for the boy – a little memory book. I think I’d like to combine some of this w/some of my art journal techniques. Would make for a really cool baby book, methinks.

By: becky

becky — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:30:29 +0000

Yeah, sorry about that Laura. You definitely need a high speed line to watch it. It’s looooooong. But I think it’s something you might actually be interested in making.

By: becky

becky — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:29:06 +0000

It is. In fact, you don’t even really need to know a lot about sewing to do it. Just enough to be able to use your machine.

By: becky

becky — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:28:27 +0000

Thanks. I’m finding it’s a great way to document photos & stick in other mementos.

By: statia

statia — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:33:14 +0000

This is such a cute idea.
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By: laura(3wordTweets)

laura(3wordTweets) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:33:40 +0000

My darn slow “out in the boonies” internet! I’ve been trying to watch the vid of your cool project. This really looks wonderful and like something I’d really enjoy doing. I’ve marked it to look at it when I’m online at the library or a coffee shop. Keep at it Becky. Have some brie while you work.
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By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:33:31 +0000

Cool! I’m JUST learning to sew, but it looks like a fun thing to make!!!

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:09:07 +0000

Very cool!

By: becky

becky — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:36:10 +0000

Thank you. It is so much fun to look at things in an entirely new light. I can see, though, how it could make me want to hoard way more than I should. So I’m trying to limit the space & once that’s full, I can’t keep anything else, no matter how cool. Unless I trade out.

But the possibilities that have opened up to me are incredible. Right now I’ve only been doing journal stuff, but once I branch out into altered books, I think we should swap. I’m not quite there yet, but I hope to be.

BTW, thank you for your encouragement. It really has been a big help.

By: Jett

Jett — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:28:58 +0000

I did enjoy it!

What I love best about this, I think, is that you repurposed a lot of items that most people would see as ‘junk’ or ‘throwaway’. It’s what I try to do in my art: Take things that folks see as no longer useful and combine them in a way so as to be striking and/or functional. I have a lot of fun just letting my mind loose to ‘re-envision’ things.

I hope you’re proud, because this came together to be something very lovely and –more important– very personal.

We should swap some art sometime!