Bookbinding, leather bound gratitude journals

These were a set of journals that I made for christmas presents. I had some crappy leather, bought at a discount from deprova leather..cheap because it was crappy, one surface had a nasty texture, but the back surface was a lovely suede, it also had a nice edge, I cut the covers to take advantage of the raggedy edges of the leather, as  much as I could.

 I stained them pinkish with printer ink as it was thin enough to soak in, without clogging the texture of the suede or making it stiff.

 I glued some sari fabric on the back and then did a stitched binding, adding in a few scrapbooking pages for interest. I decorated the fronts of each one, slightly differently. They were time consuming, so only very close friends got one!

minions!

I made these for a craftster swap. They are of polymer clay and they all have different functions, one is to solve difficult problems, one to find out stuff, one to do your shopping and my favourite, one to give you love when you are feeling down...

I am going to find these little guys very difficult to part with as they are so cute...they needed a minion house too...so I obliged.

another shrine

I love boundaries, it makes the creative process so much easier when there are limits, otherwise I spin into a confusion of possibilites, Shrines work really well because of the physical limits of the shape.

This shrine is of foam board, to celebrate the celtic Goddess brigid. I cut the sides, hot glued them together, used a blackand white image from the net, so the shrine was made to fit the image. I coloured in the images and the sides of the shrine.

The equal armed cross is a traditional brigids cross, made from rushes from the garden. I wanted the shrine to look a little unpolished, rough even as i think that the Goddess also lives in the less polished places in life.