Just for Fun

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Baby Booties

My friend Dacia and I had a “Craft Weekend” – she wanted to make a skirt, and I wanted to try my hand at making a few baby items: I made my first pair of pants…but alas, I think they would only fit a preemie…

A Bird in the Hand

I must have birds on the brain, but lately I have been obsessed with getting those little feathered creatures into my craft work. Mainly in metalsmithing, but also in some quilting and paper & card projects I am working on. Then just today, Dolan Geiman had a Friday “Link Love” all about birds!!! He read my mind I guess…

Design I Like

:: More inspiration: Design Worklife, Uppercase Magazine and Uppercase Books. Well done! Custom 52 – This looks interesting.

Cathy Penton Designs

:: Check out: cathypentondesigns.com. I just discovered Cathy’s work today when I was waiting at the Home Depot by the cashiers and magazines. I had never seen a Romantic Homes Magazine before, so while waiting for my husband to come back to the front of the store, I was flipping through the magazine and there you were! Love her style. Heart-warming and so inspiring!

Penelope Dullaghan

:: How fun is it to discover the playful work of Penelope Dullaghan. Her sense of color is food for my mind’s eye, and I just love her whimsical style.

Eye Candy

Megan E. B. Foldenauer, my colleague, fellow MI and friend is one of those people with amazing talent, and amazing personality to match. She is a biomedical illustrator by trade with a Masters degree from the same program I attended and now teach at, Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is very active in the field, but increasingly finds herself dabbling in her “fine art” which looks as realistic as her illustration work…