Random Tshirt Collection...WIP

So my mom has this thing with keeping ALL my stuff form when I was a baby or even a toddler, or so i found when cleaning the garage. Well in one of her many bags and boxes I found a bag of a bunch of tshirts i wore when I was little. My mom being the sentimental lady that she is, I decided to make something out of them while still preserving that yes they are tshirts.



Tshirts laying on the diningroom table, ready to be sewn shut and then together. next quilt i do like this I need to remember to iron tshirts BEFORE sewing them shut.



I had help from the dad, who actually got my mom's sewing machine to like me.




Pieces of shirts I wore in high school, yes there is camo in there. My pirate jacket from Halloween is also represented in the scrap pieces.

Updates will come soon as its finished :)

scrab!

Scrabble tile pendants. I really like the wooden texture on it so painted over it with ink, watercolor and some markers, and a bit of white gouache.

Bunny

It's been years since I've made a stuffed animal but I'm getting back into the habit. Here's a bunny I just finished.

I had a bunch of pieces of card stock so I decided to bind them together into a book with book rings. Since the binding took little to no time I made the cover a bit more fancy than normal.

I made a square book to hold all the random business and post cards I've collected from my illustrator classmates and friends. It took me awhile to actually take a photo to show it off.

Handmade books

I made these awhile ago but I finally got around to taking photos of them before they get any more beat up. I made one for my fiancee at the time so he could draw in it and the other is my watercolor book. No more pre made sketchbooks for me... their too expensive anyway. Next I plan to start making my own paper! So very poor...

Earrings

I haven't had any time to do any time consuming projects so I've just threw together some earring designs. They were fun to create and saved me from being bored.

Old books

I finally got around to properly documenting all my handmade books, most of which by now have seen better days. I have more info about the process of each on my blog, but feel free to commont if theres something I missed!







More pics, more books

Hemp Necklaces Part Deux

Ok so I was bored and got the 2nd design done....twice. I like black hemp but since Shannon and I have to wear lilac for a wedding and I had some lilac-ish hemp I'd try one in black and one in lilac.





The black one came first, and I used a more ornate first bead, also bigger, to give that chandelier look.





And yea just to amuse myself I made the lilac one. I've been making necklaces too long today, the lilac only took 31 minutes, probably 45 if you count wrestling with a jumpring for the pendant. It also has a few more beads because the knots are tighter and I used a smaller first bead.





And now I'm off to make something else, something not jewelry hopefully.

Hemp Necklaces

So I like to weave, so I went the hemp route instead of metal working for now. My first attempt was a necklace for the Photo Senior Show, I ended up finishing it for something else. I'm mostly using black hemp because black goes with everything. I used blue for the filler cords, made a nice little pop of color along with the silver of the camera charm. All the knotting I believe is just alternating the direction of a bunch of half knots.





For the second necklace I found a design that used a Lark's Head knot to attach the cord onto the charm/pendant. Next was a few Josephine knots, they were suppose to lay flat but yea...I hate Josephine knots. The original design also called for two of them with all 8 cords. There were many harsh and vulgar words with 8 cords, so I changed it so there was one Josephine knot on each grouping, 4 is much easier to work with. And after the Josephine knots on the original design it splits off anyway, so I just started early. Since I chose a chandelier pendant I wanted a design that kind of looked like a chain. This one worked nicely, instead of typical beads that hemp jewelry calls for, I used little acrylic crystal things, held on with jump rings. After each jewel are half hitch knots I believe. The original design also made a much longer necklace, so after the last jewel I went in with more half hitch knots instead of the Josephines the design called for. The necklace was finished off with a Josephine on each side just to tie everything together.










Each necklace probably took a couple hours and thats it. Oh and the second one is one I plan on wearing to Cyan's wedding :) Well after playing with one more design, that'll be posted later, once I actually work on it.

Photo Arts

So working on my first jewelry piece. But until that is finished and because I'm a photo kid here's some photo art. First one is some cyanotypes I played with over the summer. They'll go on something this summer when I get my work area back.









These are my leave-behinds for a Portfolio Review we had in November. Since I primarily want to work with bands and music inspired photography I went with the concept of a CD box set. Brown box was bought at Barnes and Noble and the blue paper was bought at the bookstore. Purple envelope held a thank you note along with a business card. Thank you notes also bought at Barnes and Noble, I'm in the process of making my own line of cards.

This is a card I made for Chad's birthday. I was going for a natural color theme.


The inside of the card. I like how hand sewn stitches look and prefer it over using glue or paste.

Here's a few charms inspired by Schins. Now that I'm done with my Thesis I might have more time to make some more. If anyone has any good places to get unique and interesting beads/pendants let me know.

My attempts at jewellery making ends here (I don't know how you guys have the patience to deal with all those tiny beads ahghaghhh). Dangly charms are fun and easy to make.. if you want some I will bring some for you guys next class <3

Beaded Bracelets

Here's a bunch of bracelets I was having fun creating. All basically the same design with different beading patterns and colors. I was making these to sell at a show but found out they didn't allow any jewelry to be sold by artists only prints.

Clusterbulb in Copper

Most recent anything crafty..trying to copy I pair I gave away a long time ago.

Beaded Choker

I got some nice ribbon and attached a chain for a clasp It was the first time attaching a crimp or making a necklace of any sort. The photography is my first attempt at taking a nice photo. I think it came out fairly professional.