"we never fall over mountains, it's the pebbles that make us stumble"
Published on March 9, 2010
I have to decide which fabric to use for the book that is going to have the string of roses on it, which do you thing goes better with it, the brown velvet on the right or the highly glossy silk-like stuff on the left?
the picture isn’t great but the colours are clear enough…
Published on March 9, 2010
After strugling with velvet I switched to felt for a while. A much more forgiving fabric to use (unless you saturate it with glue/paste by accident but I’ll get back to that at a later moment) and also a lot easier to photograph.
Published on March 9, 2010
I haven’t much to write at the moment, or rather I have but I can’t dig up the energy to do so. But I can show you pictures.
This is a string of roses, bows and feathers sewn onto a piece of elastic band. It is normally used on wedding dresses but i thought I’d use it to keep a book closed. Which is of course rather inpractical because it’s bulky but it is incredibly well made (I payed generously for the quality too) so it won’t fall apart.
I know it’s kitch beond believe but there is this hopeless romantic somewhere hidden deep inside my level headed self that needs taken care of now and then.
Published on March 4, 2010
My friend from Kittyballistic die cut some felt for me a while back. I had some great plans with it, in fact I still have them but somehow I shut down very shortly after I received the shapes. Not sure what happened but maybe I was just too tired in too many ways. Nothing I did seemed to work or bring any form of satisfaction.
Today I suddenly desided to get them out of the bag again and find some buttons and other stuff to see what I could do with them. So far it’s all been about exploring posibilities but it does feel good to be a little busy again. The two books in the background are what I managed to make previously, the heart book will star in a blog giveaway some time this year because it didn’t turn out perfect enough to sell but is too cute to just discard.
Don’t you just love the colours? I love the colours!!
Published on March 4, 2010
Lately I have been indexing all my paper, ribbon, thread, fabric, paint and other supplies. No not organizing again just indexing. I may even make a little spreadsheet to keep track (do I believe myself? well no but I can always dream).
Anyway, a rather convinsing lack of yellow became aparent. And I really don’t dislike yellow at all, I just seem to overlook it when I randomly pick colours. In fact the only yelow I have are leftovers from custom orders or things that came with packages of different colours. Even after I came to this conclusion I haven’t picked up much more yellow, my grandmother generously let me take some of her felt for covering books (felt is such a joy if you have struggled with velvet for weeks) and only when I came home did I discover I took a piece of almost every colour except yellow…
Things like this make me wonder why I choose the way I choose, it’s not because I don’t like yellow I just don’t seem to ’see’ it… in any case: my mission for this spring is to bring more yellow in my life just to see if I can succeed…
Published on March 4, 2010
Thanks to a tip from Sandra (her blog is all Dutch) I found another great alternative performance of canto ostinato:
really different and I like the part that starts at 3:00 a lot, not because it’s the most melodious part of the entire piece (which it is) but because it sound like a little fairytale, delicate and sweet.
What I don’t like is the guitar, I have no idea what they should have used instead but something else would have been better.
I also learned there is a harp version somewhere, I am very curious to hear a fragment of that.
edit:
found it! http://drabkikker.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/harpo-ostinato/ I like it although it lacks personality, something that harp music often does (for me)
Published on March 2, 2010
It is very different from the original 2 or 4 piano version and it lacks the mediatative quality but I still think this is very beautiful!
A part of a piano version (most popular theme), this was played way too fast for my taste though
Published on February 11, 2010
I have two new friends:
They are ‘Fiskars softgrip spring action scissors’ and I am very enthousiastic about them! The spring gives me so much more controle, particularly the tiny one is so much better than ‘normal’ small scissors…
What I also like a lot is the fact that there are no pre shaped holes I need to get my fingers into, they are very comfortable to hold.
Published on February 9, 2010
Between the velvet I’m working my way through there is a piece of corduroy, lovely stuff to use for a book and I spend half an hour getting off all the dust to make some pictures of it. 5 minutes later:
*sigh*
beter pictures as soon as I find my courage back
