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I’ve been working on a local order. It’s been great fun to work with the shop owner and customize the design to fit her customers needs.

Aren’t they fun ?! I love all the colors and fabric of these cell phone wristlets and coin purse wristlets. The colorful zippers and surprise inside fabric colors add to the fun of these wristlets. Each has a transparent vinyl exterior pocket for a college id or license. I delivered the first order last week with more to come.

You can find these at Nich in downtown West Chester, PA. Owner Kristy is so nice and her shop is a funky urban edge women’s clothing boutique. She has an active fan club of followers on Nich facebook page as well as on Pinterest. If you are in the area, it’s worth the trip to stop in and check out her wonderful boutique.

July 12, 2012

Kathy

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Scotch Tape Sculpture

Posted in Other Artist Work

Who knew you could make sculptures from scotch tape? These are amazing:

Source: games.yahoo.com via Shannon on Pinterest

This is really made from scotch tape!

Love these merry go round horses

Source: games.yahoo.com via Evonne on Pinterest

3M Scotch Tape runs a scotch tape sculpture contest each year. This is 2012’s winner

Source: mymodernmet.com via Edwige on Pinterest

I will never look at scotch tape the same again!

July 11, 2012

Kathy

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Sewing with Vinyl

Posted in Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

I am up to my eyeballs with a large local sewing order. It’s great fun meeting someone new and working together to tweak some of my sewing designs to meet their needs. I find design tweaking absorbing and time consuming. I always learn something new.

One of the tweaks is adding a vinyl pocket on to a cell phone clutch. I’ve never used vinyl before and it is kind cool to work with. A trip to JoAnne’s to check out vinyl, I found that the lower the gauge the thinner the vinyl is. I have opted to work with an 18 gauge vinyl for sturdiness.

Source: onlinefabricstore.net via Bordando on Pinterest

Vinyl wants to stick to your machine when sewing. I found that there are a lot sewing blogs that suggest adding scotch tape to the bottom of your sewing foot. I tried it and it works great! Adding a small strip on either side of the needle plate, under the foot helped too. It glides right through when sewing. Futuregirl.com has great photos and instructions

Source: futuregirl.com via Cindy on Pinterest

Another tip from byannie.com is to keep the tissue paper that comes with a roll of vinyl with the piece of vinyl you are working on. Seems obvious ….. now. Those edges of the vinyl are really hard to see and the tissue paper helps a lot.

I’ll definitely be experimenting with vinyl in the future. but for today, vinyl playtime is over and it’s time to work on the order and also finish up a painting that is almost done. Enjoy your day !

July 8, 2012

Kathy

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Summer

Posted in Musing About Art

Summer has arrived! We saw 101 around the Philadelphia area yesterday. Recording breaking? Nope. 1936 takes the record for 104 in July, as did 1966. 1901 brought next July record breakers of 102 and 103. All I can say is the person who invented the air conditioner rocks!

Painting outside is not something that is going to be attempted by me in this weather. So while you are indoors, may these great photos of cold take your mind off the heat and inspire some great cold creative ideas: