Even great for those who don't often have need of their needles and scissors. Sure beats digging around in that old drawer!
Friday, December 04, 2009
A little help organizing: Scissor and Needle holders
Great way to keep your embroidery or sewing scissor handy! The ribbon lets you hang this scissor holder close by and what a great useful and decorative bonus the little needle book is!
Even great for those who don't often have need of their needles and scissors. Sure beats digging around in that old drawer!
All images and design elements are protected by copyright. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this product. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.
Even great for those who don't often have need of their needles and scissors. Sure beats digging around in that old drawer!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Protest is Patriotic
I was watching "US vs John Lennon" directed by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld last September right after all the hubbub about the "Tea Parties". I believe it was on a clip from the 1968 Democratic Convention that I saw a young woman carrying a sign that just hit me as one of those things that we just often seem to forget. The sign simply said "Protest is Patriotic".
Being a compulsive "maker" I had to make these pinbacks. Every once in a while when I am wearing mine I notice someone stop, do a double take, and I think "they got it".
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Fabric Collaged Light Switchplate Covers
What to do with fabric and lace scraps? Collage and alter those switch plate covers!
Monday, July 20, 2009
My new Business Cards Holders
Colleged altered art Business Card Holders OOAK for sure!
and Txalteredart Etsy Shop
Monday, June 15, 2009
Vintage girls sewing patterns treasure trove!
So many 50s, 60s and 70s patterns in this bunch it will take me all summer to get them checked out and listed!
What a trip down memory lane!
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Petite Jotter Note pad Pendants
One of the little jotter notepads that I had such fun making!
(Well maybe not so much the sore hand from punching all those little circles)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
A week-end alone...well but for the cats
And I got controll of the tv. Set up a folding table in the living room. Brought out my felt, thread, and hair clip suff. Put the cats in the back room!!! And had a great time making these Embroidered Felt French Barrettes! I even had the time to list them in my Txalteredart Etsy shop
Well as they say "all good things must end" and "too much of a good thing..."
So back to jumping up in the middle of working to find someones missing flip-flops, explain to the college grad why the shed key won't work in the back door, and deal with the ever "there's nothing to eat" (translated: COOK DINNER! I'M STARVING!).
Life goes on!
Friday, June 13, 2008
I needed to Cheer Up!
I was being grumpy. I was complaining! I had a mean sour face on!
I needed to cheer up so I made these cheery, cheery bright little home and song bird brooches.
They made me smile.
What about you?
Monday, April 07, 2008
BACK IN FOCUS unique photography backdrops
"one of a kind hand-painted photography backdrops"
If ever in need, this is the place to find that perfect, unique HANDPAINTED 100% cotton BACKDROP.
Check out this new and creative perfessional.
And remember let others construct
So you can create!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sisters Romance and Magic Prim Little Fairies
Sisters Romance and Magic
Let me introduce you to a pair of sisters. Romance and Magic are, of course, slightly primitive, lightly fanciful and alluringly whimsical fairies. They turn up in so many places, often when you least expect them. At times they are together. At times they roam alone.
Let me introduce you to a pair of sisters. Romance and Magic are, of course, slightly primitive, lightly fanciful and alluringly whimsical fairies. They turn up in so many places, often when you least expect them. At times they are together. At times they roam alone.
These are original mixed media 2 ½” x 3 ½” ACEO
Watercolor paper is mounted on mat board and sealed.
I used paper, watercolor, color pencils, acrylics, ink, sealers and glues.
They can be found right now at the wonderful new auction site for artist, crafters and those looking of ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE works.
(Just use the search term
Txalteredart)
IMAGES and DESIGN ELEMENTS are protected by COPYRIGHT. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this product. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not copy or import my pictures.
“It is when we take a moment from our day and let our dreams fly, swirling around that they grow into creation.”
Ellen Jane Shelton Richardson
TxAlteredArt
IMAGES and DESIGN ELEMENTS are protected by COPYRIGHT. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this product. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not copy or import my pictures.
“It is when we take a moment from our day and let our dreams fly, swirling around that they grow into creation.”
Ellen Jane Shelton Richardson
TxAlteredArt
Thursday, November 22, 2007
What a Cute Cute Cute little Hoot Hoot Hoot! Mini little felt Owls
These little owls just seemed to there waiting for me to lend them a hand and stitch them together.
I got so carried away with making them that I totally blew off finishing laying the tile in our bathroom. Course now if you walk across the floor in there you sort of stick to the floor....but oh well!
Sunday, November 04, 2007
DESTASHING - RECYCLING - SPREADING IT AROUND!
"The time has come the Walrus said........"
Yes the time has come for me to start reducing my stash. I am starting on paper items mainly old book pages but, life willing, I shall progress towards the back of the room which holds.......well, I am not sure.
I saw the look of horror on my daughters face when I opened the door to my "work room". ( You know the room I did once work in till it got too full and now I have to work in the living room and dining room.) And I know what she was pleading for...."Please let Mom hang on till this junk is gone!"
So I am trying, I am trying, but I do get so distracted. I've got some good junk---I mean stuff!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5339955
Yes the time has come for me to start reducing my stash. I am starting on paper items mainly old book pages but, life willing, I shall progress towards the back of the room which holds.......well, I am not sure.
I saw the look of horror on my daughters face when I opened the door to my "work room". ( You know the room I did once work in till it got too full and now I have to work in the living room and dining room.) And I know what she was pleading for...."Please let Mom hang on till this junk is gone!"
So I am trying, I am trying, but I do get so distracted. I've got some good junk---I mean stuff!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5339955
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
My Fairy Dancer (altered art collage) may be leaving home!
THE FAIRY DANCER
Oh, I was not sure I would or could let her go! But she was created to light up a world other than this one of mine. So she is now out there looking for a home!
Monday, May 28, 2007
History of those quilt pieces in "Where the Wind Blows"
The other day I listed a wall hanging I made using pieces of two old quilts. I wanted to tell their story or rather the part of their story that I know.
The first is the piece upon which it is all built:
My Grandmother, like many woman of her time, made quilts. From flower sacks, tailor scraps, from anything and everything. She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren when they were born. When my oldest daughter was born she was determined to do the same for this great grandchild. She was older, so totally deaf and near blind. But she made the quilt. No one, even she, ever claimed it was a masterpiece. It was good enough, as she did say, to just keep the little one warm. As my daughter and I went here and there while the years passed, one thing we did not let go of was that quilt. And when my daughter had her daughter they often shared the warmth of that old quilt.
Now that is a sweet story, but, though true, there are many more stories than just this touching bit of history. There is the story of the picnic where my daughter threw the old quilt down on the ground (black gumbo) for the baby to play on. There is the story of the ice cream that melted when they fell asleep watching tv, snuggled up in the old quilt. There was the new puppy that just had to be kept warm! And there were a few stories that remain a mystery to me, (my daughter still refuses to tell them to me and I guess I have quit asking about them sometime in these last twenty years). Yes lots of stories and one basic fact. My daughter always had a washing machine.
I don’t throw much of anything away. When my daughter brought me this old raggedy thing, asking if I could “fix it up” and I realized what it was, I said, among a few choice other words, no. I took it to my work room and put it with another tattered piece of an old quilt.
The second piece is the small piece that is the young girls dress:
I hate shopping and am now physically very limited in the amount of walking and stuff I can do. But I live for garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores. My passion (other than grandchildren, pets and chocolate), is to reclaim, recycle and recreate. So what is better than “junk” sales?
This sale was listed as an estate sale and unlike many such listed really was an estate sale. I never got a name. I did talk to the elderly lady who seemed to be in charge and did find out a little bit of story. She told me it was her sister who had lived there. Well, step sister. She told me they were not close. She told me her step sister was a b.... well you know. I started wondering which one was the b... well you know. After looking around, gathering up a few items I went back to this charming elderly lady and asked how much. When she saw the old dilapidated quilt I had selected she said “Don’t know why you would want that thing? She never could sew worth a s..... And look how she ruined everything.” I smiled sweetly and again asked how much.
As I walked out of that home I swore to one thing and prayed for another. I swore that I would some day take a little piece of this unknown lady’s handiwork and again give it life. And I prayed that when I go and strangers are digging around in all my stuff someone is there saying just a little something nice about me.
The first is the piece upon which it is all built:
My Grandmother, like many woman of her time, made quilts. From flower sacks, tailor scraps, from anything and everything. She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren when they were born. When my oldest daughter was born she was determined to do the same for this great grandchild. She was older, so totally deaf and near blind. But she made the quilt. No one, even she, ever claimed it was a masterpiece. It was good enough, as she did say, to just keep the little one warm. As my daughter and I went here and there while the years passed, one thing we did not let go of was that quilt. And when my daughter had her daughter they often shared the warmth of that old quilt.
Now that is a sweet story, but, though true, there are many more stories than just this touching bit of history. There is the story of the picnic where my daughter threw the old quilt down on the ground (black gumbo) for the baby to play on. There is the story of the ice cream that melted when they fell asleep watching tv, snuggled up in the old quilt. There was the new puppy that just had to be kept warm! And there were a few stories that remain a mystery to me, (my daughter still refuses to tell them to me and I guess I have quit asking about them sometime in these last twenty years). Yes lots of stories and one basic fact. My daughter always had a washing machine.
I don’t throw much of anything away. When my daughter brought me this old raggedy thing, asking if I could “fix it up” and I realized what it was, I said, among a few choice other words, no. I took it to my work room and put it with another tattered piece of an old quilt.
The second piece is the small piece that is the young girls dress:
I hate shopping and am now physically very limited in the amount of walking and stuff I can do. But I live for garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores. My passion (other than grandchildren, pets and chocolate), is to reclaim, recycle and recreate. So what is better than “junk” sales?
This sale was listed as an estate sale and unlike many such listed really was an estate sale. I never got a name. I did talk to the elderly lady who seemed to be in charge and did find out a little bit of story. She told me it was her sister who had lived there. Well, step sister. She told me they were not close. She told me her step sister was a b.... well you know. I started wondering which one was the b... well you know. After looking around, gathering up a few items I went back to this charming elderly lady and asked how much. When she saw the old dilapidated quilt I had selected she said “Don’t know why you would want that thing? She never could sew worth a s..... And look how she ruined everything.” I smiled sweetly and again asked how much.
As I walked out of that home I swore to one thing and prayed for another. I swore that I would some day take a little piece of this unknown lady’s handiwork and again give it life. And I prayed that when I go and strangers are digging around in all my stuff someone is there saying just a little something nice about me.
Friday, May 04, 2007
The Story of How My R and R Cards Were Born
I have started a new group of altered art mini cards. I call them my R and R Cards. And here is the story of how my R and R Cards were born:
I have had many different businesses in my life and awhile back when I was trying to clean and organize my work/junk room, I found myself holding a couple of boxes stuffed with various old business cards. And as is usual in my pathetic efforts at organizing all that stuff, I told myself to either do something with them or throw them away! Then I crammed them onto an already over stuffed shelf and basically forgot them. That is till a few days ago. I was still laying on my back, taking muscle relaxers and trying to recover from the back injury, (which without a doubt, has convinced me to never try to clean and organize again). Now even though I often can not remember how or why one thought has led to another, this particular day seems to have been a real wild free-for-all in the old thought association process. (Ever taken muscle relaxers? Ah, maybe...) There was Truman. I was reading one of Margaret Truman’s books. There was Mash. There was Hawkeye on R and R. And there were those boxes of old useless business cards. And that is when it happened, my great idea for R and R Cards. Not Rest and Relaxation Cards. No! Revive and Revise Cards! Revive: to bring back to life, give new vigor. Revise: to change, to alter.
I would like to say that I jumped up, rushed in and created my first R and R Cards. But I didn’t, I just went to sleep. (Ever taken muscle relaxers?) But when I was finally able to stand, even for just a little while at a time, I started creating R and R Cards! And as I created I realized there must be rules for R and R Cards.
I hate rules. I can’t remember rules. I try to follow size rules on other art cards but mine seem to always stick out to far somewhere or shrunk up somehow. My favorite pics are too large and that perfect text in that perfect font from one of my old ads is just too small to see! I just hate rules when I am completely engrossed in a passionate outpouring of creativity!
So I decided to have just one rule. An R and R Card must start with an old, no longer any good, business card and must end having been brought back to life with new vigor, changed and altered.
Reclaim, recycle, upcycle, recoup, retrieve, rescue or just plain salvage those old cards and MAKE ART!
I have had many different businesses in my life and awhile back when I was trying to clean and organize my work/junk room, I found myself holding a couple of boxes stuffed with various old business cards. And as is usual in my pathetic efforts at organizing all that stuff, I told myself to either do something with them or throw them away! Then I crammed them onto an already over stuffed shelf and basically forgot them. That is till a few days ago. I was still laying on my back, taking muscle relaxers and trying to recover from the back injury, (which without a doubt, has convinced me to never try to clean and organize again). Now even though I often can not remember how or why one thought has led to another, this particular day seems to have been a real wild free-for-all in the old thought association process. (Ever taken muscle relaxers? Ah, maybe...) There was Truman. I was reading one of Margaret Truman’s books. There was Mash. There was Hawkeye on R and R. And there were those boxes of old useless business cards. And that is when it happened, my great idea for R and R Cards. Not Rest and Relaxation Cards. No! Revive and Revise Cards! Revive: to bring back to life, give new vigor. Revise: to change, to alter.
I would like to say that I jumped up, rushed in and created my first R and R Cards. But I didn’t, I just went to sleep. (Ever taken muscle relaxers?) But when I was finally able to stand, even for just a little while at a time, I started creating R and R Cards! And as I created I realized there must be rules for R and R Cards.
I hate rules. I can’t remember rules. I try to follow size rules on other art cards but mine seem to always stick out to far somewhere or shrunk up somehow. My favorite pics are too large and that perfect text in that perfect font from one of my old ads is just too small to see! I just hate rules when I am completely engrossed in a passionate outpouring of creativity!
So I decided to have just one rule. An R and R Card must start with an old, no longer any good, business card and must end having been brought back to life with new vigor, changed and altered.
Reclaim, recycle, upcycle, recoup, retrieve, rescue or just plain salvage those old cards and MAKE ART!
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Free Free Fonts Fonts Fonts
Alway looking for that perfect Font! I love Fonts!
Todays Kim Kamando's Cool Site of the Day (http://www.komando.com/) is
http://www.creamundo.com/index.php?lang=en
9800 Free Fonts!!!!!!
Bye now I still have 9790 to check out!!
Todays Kim Kamando's Cool Site of the Day (http://www.komando.com/) is
http://www.creamundo.com/index.php?lang=en
9800 Free Fonts!!!!!!
Bye now I still have 9790 to check out!!
Thursday, February 01, 2007
The Hitch Hiking Fairies Trip
Just a note that the girls did make a long trip, arrived safely and I do believe they are very happy in their new home.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
I got those Hitch Hiking Fairies!
It may have taken some really weird weather here in the Texas Hill Country, like frozen water coming from the sky and covering the trees, the porch, the road and worse of all for some people the electrial lines!!!! But it was during these strange days that I at last was able to get those hitch hiking fairies!
So this could be called an altered art mini quilt I guess or just quilted art, or reclaimed textile visual art, or pieced mixed media textile art, or....
What ever you call it check these little fairies out 'cause I am sure I will never catch any more hiking across my mind!Sunday, January 14, 2007
New Year New Petite Verses
This year I am presenting my petite verses in new ways. I think I like the ACEO format the best even though they are really ACEO with a twist.
But since I just love little bitty maybe the tiny little altered art book-lets made from slides is my new favorite.
Of course some of my poems are so perfect for the squared mixed media format. I use 4 inch square and as I most often do, I used some of my favorite fabric in this one.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
If Kim Komando says it's cool...
And yes Etsy is a great place to shop and support a unique group of artist and artisans!
http://www.etsy.com/index.php
And don't forget me and mine!!!!
Txalteredart
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=72974
http://www.etsy.com/index.php
And don't forget me and mine!!!!
Txalteredart
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=72974
Saturday, December 30, 2006
ACEO ADVENTURES
There is a story behind these collage altered art cards. Want to know how they are related to Tom Sawyer? Check them out in my Etsy shop. Reclaim then you too can create new adventures!
Monday, December 18, 2006
A Cat I Now Call Friend
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
The Idea
explodes forth in a magical, awe inspiring moment of pure creative energy!
So it’s early morning, I don’t have to get up, not for a few hours. Nothing really I have to do. So I grab my book, blob-up all the pillows and there goes Inspector Alleyn running into a New Zealand hotel chasing a revolting, rich young cad who had given his the slip. But as Alleyn was locking the door my mind is just a little too much on my old pair of jeans with the hole in the leg. Now I don’t like to shop….unless it is a thrift stores, garage sales, or craft and fabric stores… and never for clothes to wear, so I need those pants since I just have two other pair. I guess I will do what I’ve done for 30 years and patch them (Oh I could do a little crazy patch)… to bad, if I junk them I would have the pockets, which are nicely rough and worn, and could do something with them…. Oh, (now where did Alleyn go all dirty and tired?) the idea!!!! a pocket and a hitch hiker….more than one hitch hiker, let me think…and of course some flowers……..
Tune In
for the first glimpse of The Idea as a reality
hopefully coming soon, maybe next week. I could get started right now… but it’s been so long since I have read this Marsh book (and who did cause that champagne to smash in his head?). And I do so love these slow quite mornings that would be just perfect with…..Oh my! I need some pancakes......
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