I am back....!!!!!

Hello my dear friends. The degree is done and recovery is nearly complete, so time to get back to creating. At the moment I am just trying to familiarise myself with how to do this again, so please be patient with  me.

Much love Jo

For Ed and Phil

I didn't need the trailer after all.

Hand in day....the blue bag is where a piece of wood should have been. The bag belongs to the next booth.

That book right in the corner is my contextual and idea file. It also contains my notes on the Mike Press paper, Have I got his name right, all my books are at college!?

DONE!

Finishing off...

...and display...

Made some tags, so I can label my items.

Stitched around the paper for decoration. I am going to try and type them on the new toy.

All the way from America.

That is fabric! Take a picture, send it to Spoon flower in the States, and they make it into fabric. This picture is of my large bib necklace,

These are my domino pins and pendents. I am not happy with the "bloom" I have on these. It could be that the Glossy Accents that I used is too old, or there has been a reaction with the Stazon permanent ink. It has not happen before...just one of those things. 

Went into Uni to decorate my space, will take picture on Wednesday. Using wall paper and fabric. Couldn't do all of it as I still don't have a left hand side!!!!

Bits and pieces of stuff

This is the space I have at Uni to display my third project! It has a back, and as we look at it, a right hand side. I have asked for a left hand side before the 27th....

This isn't quite all of it, there is a sketch book to house, but I think we are getting there.

Whilst we are on the subject of re purposing I have to say that one of my favorites in my studio is my Lazy Susie.

The lazy Susie was bought at a car boot sale.

And the metal containers, were from Wilkinson's, 50 pence each.

Drill a hole in the bottom of each container and screw to the base. It is great when you are sat journal and can just spin it round to what you need. Fabulous in a teaching studio too.

Just playing with the books for my third project.

To be honest, I have no intention of finishing off the soap box book. The whole point of it is that you keep adding. I just require it to be of a standard to display.

Creating the title for the soap box book.

Text onto black card then stitch around it.

Metal rulers, Back in the day when you got "Feed back" instead of "Feed forward" the wavy edge ruler was called a deckle edge. Lord only knows what it is called today.

It gives you a nice edge to paper and card.

Rip!

Same process for Re-#.

This is my Hash tag.............sorry!

This houses my contextual file. I really like this book and will be making more in different sizes. I must admit I do not like the look of the contextual stuff in it, but that can be remove at a later date. 

Finishing off....some more!

The large bib necklace needs its backing,

Ekk! I need to cover this.

Black cotton fabric. I have drawn around the bib with a tailors chalk pencil. This will all dust off.

Cut out.

Adding glue around the edges, mainly to keep the fabric in place whilst I sew it.

Bull dog clips make great mini clamps.

Happy with that.

 This bib necklace is quite big, so I will need to make my own display torso.

I am using wall paper, lining paper to create a pattern.

Please note I am re-purposing the back of a paper pad to create this stand!!!

Cut it out.

Holes for the string.

In need of some colour.

Yes I will be back tomorrow, but nearly done now.