Every year I like to highlight my five favorite things I use in my studio. This year I had to include six! There are links to the products on the product headings. These are not affiliate links.
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Six Favorite Things 2023
My Fabric Book – Finally!!
After so many changes, my fabric book is finally finished! Yipee!
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Fabric Book Update
For those of you following my fabric book journey, I wanted you to see my progress. Now it was time to start working on the spreads.
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Happy Thanksgiving 2023!
Just a quick note to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. I want you to know that I appreciate you stopping by and reading my blog and commenting. This has been a tough year for a lot of us, and I thank you for taking time out of your life to see what I’m up…
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Fabric Book Continuing Progress
Since my last post, I’ve pretty much changed my mind about almost everything!! Before I get into that, here are a couple embellishments I made for the pages. These irises I’ve made before and you can find my tutorial here. They will go on my spread about planting the iris beds. I also made some…
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Slow Progress
I remember years ago when I first started my blog as Bloom Bake Create, I ran into one of my blog follower at our local JoAnns. I was surprised because I didn’t know her, and really had no idea I had people locally following my blog. She complimented me on my blog post and was…
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Making New Leaf Prints
We recently returned from a wonderful trip to Alabama. While there I picked up some leaves. I want to create something to remember this visit, so I made some new leaf prints. To start I needed to preserve the leaves. For information on preserving leaves and other botanicals check out this blog post.Â
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Dyeing and Curtains
One thing I have wanted to do since sewing those master bathroom curtains is to sew curtains for the small bath and my studio. I also wanted to dye a piece of white fabric that was given to me. It has a pattern and I was hoping the dye would bring out the design. The…
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Finding inspiration for card making
As I’ve mentioned, my muse has been on vacation for quite a bit. When I look at all of my stash my mind wants me to create, but my body says no. Since I couldn’t seem to get started I decided to organize my studio. That involved going through a lot of stuff I’ve not…
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