If I can't be a dragon-whisperer, can I at least befriend a talking dog?
I finished The World of Birds, a 2000-piece puzzle I found at the thrift store, on January 6th. This is the biggest puzzle I've ever done. While it is much bigger than Great Wall of China, it was actually easier to put together. I did have to deal with solid-white pieces, but I also had... Continue Reading →
Learning about the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships got me interested in jigsaw puzzles. I've been buying them, learning about them, and generally getting sucked into the quiet pleasure of solving them. Here's some of the things I've discovered. I started by checking out my local thrift stores. To my astonishment, it's quite easy to find... Continue Reading →
I continue to make really simple objects for Dephemerember. I guess that's just what I have the capacity for right now. The fourth prompt is "Clocks & Wings." My clocks and wings journaling card. I found an image of a watch face and some sandhill cranes in my collection of saved magazine images for my... Continue Reading →
My "Selfie in a Bubble" isn't really either of those things. Sticking with my bird theme, I put an owl image behind a hole (my "bubble") in a piece of cardboard. The cut out circle was in the packing that I collaged over. I backed it with plain paper to cover up the stitching. This piece... Continue Reading →
The second prompt for Dephemerember 2023 was "Salvaged Birds." As a quilter, I have plenty of fabric selvages (the bound edge on fabric when you buy it by the yard) lying around and the word salvage made me think of selvage. I wound up making a purple collage of fabric selvages then adding yellow bird... Continue Reading →
