Take a look at the gorgeous work done by beaders participating in the 2008 Bead Journal Project.
Bead Journal Project – Home Page
Enjoy!
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Bead Journal Project – Home Page
Olympics in China: That’s Not All!
The Olympics aren’t the only exciting thing occurring in China. This package arrived on my doorstep from Hong Kong: the bluelines for Color Mastery. I sure wish I knew what this said. I’m sure it’s something quite boring, like “folio 1 of 7,” but the writing looks so elegant.
I’ve been poring [...]
Olympic Quilts
We’re Olympics junkies here. We’re glued to Olympic coverage and letting the boys stay up late to watch even though school has started. I love everything about the Olympics: the collective enthusiasm of the world watching a single event all at once and cheering on the athletes, the spectacle of the ceremonies, [...]
An Open Letter to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Today I wrote a letter to my local newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, about the cuts management is making to its newsroom and how disappointed I am in the results. Ya’ll know I’m a reader, and I’m saddened at the changes I’m seeing in the newspaper that is so much a part of my daily [...]
From Sketchbook to Art Quilt
(You’re gonna want to scroll down for this one.) So what does all this stuff about sketching have to do with quilting? It prepares you for the single moment that inspiration strikes. I want to make a quilt of a house, a bird, a cup of coffee. I want to make [...]
A Rich Sketching Resource
Thumbnail Sketch by Maria Peagler
If I’ve peaked your interest in sketching, check out Katherine Tyrrell’s blog Making a Mark. Katherine is a pastel and colored pencil artist who has developed a wealth of lessons on sketching and keeping a sketchbook. She doesn’t include quilters or fiber artists in her blog, only drawings [...]
Capturing the Moments
At some point in my sketchbooks, I stopped using them as a place for only my ideas and inspiration, but also as a place to capture the daily moments of my life by drawing them. My husband had given me the book How to Make a Journal of Your Life , and it really [...]
My Baby Brother’s Home Profiled in Atlanta’s Newspaper
My younger brother, Michael, had his home profiled in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His wife is pregnant with their second, and she looks so calm and relaxed in the photos accompanying the story. We get to see them on Sunday at their son’s second-year birthday party. We live a good distance north [...]
Imagineering in My Journals
I’ve always thought Disney had it right in calling their employees Imagineers. What a cool job title – getting paid to bring imagination to life. I do my own imagineering in my journals, using two techniques I talked about in my podcast: mind-mapping and 100 Questions.
Mindmeister is a great online resource for [...]
My Journals’ Evolution
As I continued to keep journals, I started adding my own ideas, designs, and dreams to them. I would still sometimes cut and paste from magazines and newspapers, referring to color schemes or styles of art I liked.
Here I liked the African women repeated across the page. Simple design, yet effective.
I also like [...]
