This is a postcard I made for my friend, who is getting to be a Feng Shui expert. I did not intend it to be directed at her search for love, but it turned out to be the perfect little message for her at the time. This postcard was made from other images, paint and thread. It is part of a series of collages I made for a great group I belong to, but silly me, I sent them out before taking pictures of them.
It has been almost a year since I’ve posted anything, but only because I have been busy creating and a bit lazy about posting.
But here I am again, I will be hanging the drawings I made last summer at Blue Dot, a new cafe and coffee bar in Alameda, CA. Please visit their website and the cafe!
I think the opening for the cafe will be around the 20th of this month.
See you there!
Hello Everyone,
Here are my 2 pieces from the Worth Ryder Gallery Show at UC Berkeley. They were part of the Wash Rinse Repeat: Repeat show.
Enjoy…
This piece is based on childhood memories of playing with my grandmother’s thread spools.
Here is a detail of that piece.
This piece is based on childhood drawings.
And a detail of it. These are forms I am attracted to and keep coming back in my drawings.
This is the piece I had at the Wash Rinse Repeat show we had this summer.
The idea came from the array of pincushions I’ve had done for the Open Studios a couple of months before that.
Let me know what you think. I am now working on the pieces that will be showcased this September at UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Gallery.
2 details:
Here are some of the other bags I’ve made and will have available for sale at the Open Studios.
The Hobo Bag.
This one is made out of a very soft upholstery fabric I found at a discounted fabric store in Oakland. This store is almost my little secret…
The inside is a very nice cotton fabric I found at the same store.
The Orange Circle Bag.
It is probably the most difficult bag I have made to date. I used a dinner plate to make the pattern and elongated it to be able to fold the top half. The zipper was quite difficult to work with. I think i did OK considering…
So, I will have my studio open to anyone who wants to come in and buy stuff from me, or just look.
Here are a couple of bags I will have for sale. Plus, more pincushions! And some drawings.
This bag is made out of blue acrylic felt I bought at the White Elephant sale in Oakland, CA. The interior is lined in orange cotton, also from the WES with 3 pockets perfect for brushes, pencils, pens, etc…I made all the wiggles of thread on the outside using my trusty sewing machine and tons of different color spools.
It has a piece of corrugated plastic in between the fabrics in the bottom, to make it sturdy.
The orange interior.
Here is another bag:
This one is made from beautiful bark cloth inside and out. The handles go around the bottom. It is a sturdy bag with magnets on the flap to secure closure.
It does not have a pocket inside, but it opens wide for easy access.
Hi everyone,
It has been a while. Here is a bag I made for my friend Jeanetta. I named it after her, of course. I sew all the wiggles on the pink fabric and added a hard corrugated plastic in between the bottom pieces for stability.
The inside pockets are spacious and the b/w cotton fabric is a nice contrast to the silky striped liner.
I hope you like it as much I do.
Although I’ve called my sister, Marines, for her Birthday, I can’t stop feeling guilty that I just left her a message. Our difference in time is about 4 hours and it is quite difficult for me to call her at a decent time. Even after all these years.
So, I am just going to post pictures of my everyday bag. This is the Madras Bag. Made with vintage fabric I found at the Alameda Antiques Fair. I lined it with a beautiful orange satin fabric I bought at a closeout sale. It has an inside pocket I can put my keys and cell phone. The Flower is made from felt I bought at Britex Fabrics in San Francisco. Yummy!
Here’s the travel tote. It is made from store-bought turquoise felt and multi-color thread. I made all the wiggly designs on the felt and used a light blue cotton fabric for the inside. It has two pockets making it a great bag to travel with. Check it out! We were in Beautiful Puerto Rico for a wedding and could not resist the colors of Downtown Hatillo that matched so perfectly with the bag. Notice the bag has a flimsy bottom. I have fixed that with a piece of corrugated vinyl/poly board. Now the bottom is stiff and somewhat water resistant.
I copied the pattern for this bag from a Kenneth Cole bag I bought a long time ago. The guard at the entrance to the De Young Museum loved it and I almost sold it to her right then and there. Well, not really, she was working… This is another one that my friend Adrianne bought for another gift.
Enjoy,
