Yesterday's Children

Some little projects that were mostly completed yesterday

~my little children~

I had some end bits from some journal papers that were left over

after cutting the paper to size for my cereal box journals.

Why not use my baby wipe paint brush blotter for some color?

I'm fond of "Wonder Under" a product that fuses to fabric with an iron and 

then you can fuse your pieces to other fabric or even cardboard.

 I like to make fabric postcards this way 

and it's a great way to use up scraps.

A lampwork embellishment that I made

 I must tell you that I've been heavily inspired by Corrine

 at Dosfishes on these projects.

She had sent me a wonderful altered Kombucha bottle that she had made

and after finding a mother lode of patina-ed antique bottles at a yard sale

I wanted to try some myself.

This is what I came up with.

I happened to have some  vintage lace that I dyed last year.

I used saffron and tea and coffee.

And some beeswax to attach the lace to the bottles.

I want to make some lampwork stoppers of my own for them

although some of them are Lea & Perrins sauce bottles 

and I have a goodly stash of the original glass stoppers for those.

This one needs some more dangly bits

Oh yes and I do love my new stash of sari silk ribbons!

It took me into another color palette

 I didn't want to cover up or take away from the patina

which is almost dichroic on some after being buried for so long

much like ancient Roman glass

These babies are destined for a road trip to Alaska this spring 

because we may be opening a little shop out back next to our house

for the folks rolling by on the Alaska Highway.