Sultry Sensibilties - Part 1

This lovely sultry lady is a Fabric Postcard design that I created for this year's Birthday Card for all my lady friends. I fussy cut a vignette from a piece of Alexander Henry Fabric called "vogue", plus other fabrics that complimented the lady, plus ribbons, silk flowers and beads. Metallic thread was used for free-motion sewing and glitter paint for highlights and those wonderful red lips!

She is part of the Triptych shown above.

Happy Holidays everyone!

I've finally sent off my 2007 Holiday Postcards; it ended up being quite a project, but loads of fun. I created a few special cards for some special friends (not shown) plus a limited edition of 24 cards of the Santa Elf card shown on the left. I embellished the card with gold rick rack and a gold star and was afraid they'd get lost in the shuffle during the post office processing. So, they each got a fabric envelope too! I hope everyone enjoys getting them as much as I enjoyed making them.

More Fabric Postcards

I recently returned from a weekend visit to the Northern Oregon coastal city of Wheeler. I attended a fabric postcard class taught by Bonnie Sabel, author of the book, Positively Postcards. You can view her work at http://www.quilted-postcards.com/. I've included a couple of pictures of two of my postcard creations; one is called Lady on a Leaf, the other is called Romance Novel. Both of these used a portion of kits that I purchased from Bonnie, but they are changed up a bit.

I stayed at a The Old Wheeler Hotel, a recently renovated old building that had been a flourishing hotel in the 1920s in support of the railroad and timber industries. During the depression, its business fell off and the building became an arthritis clinic in the 1940s. It is now a simply lovely B&B that I highly recommend should you e'er travel this way some day. Check out the hotel at http://www.oldwheelerhotel.com/index.htm

The hotel is on Highway 101, literally. For those of us who have lived in California, we watched 101 become a ever-widening series of lanes full of bumper to bumper traffic traveling at speeds in excess of 70 MPH. By the time 101 reaches the northern Oregon coastal area, however, it is a quietly traveled 2-lane road where speed limits slow to 25 MPH for those driving through the scattered coastal towns. In Wheeler, I walked outside the hotel and then sauntered across 101 - no cars were in sight! It's a bit like being in the Twilight Zone - in a very nice way.