on the worktable: new art journals

This week on the worktable: Using the last of my favorite reclaimed quilt remnants to make some new art journals. It must be time to go quilt hunting again!

on the worktable: vintage quilts

Working on a few new vintage quilt notebook covers. These are refillable and hold a 3.5 x 5 inch miniature composition notebook. The inside flap also has a small elastic loop to hold your favorite pen, pencil or paintbrush!

These new vintage quilted goodies are available in my etsy store ! Enjoy !

on the worktable: more fabric journals

Have I ever mentioned I have a sweet addiction to fabric? Nah - never I am sure! Especially the cool raggedly vintage stuff. Pulled out of the dryer, after a fresh wash, it is more raggedy and yummier than ever.

Random, doodle style stitching just makes it all the yummier -

These chunky pieces of fabric make lovely fabric art journals.

This one is headed to Montana.

On the Worktable: Vintage Hankie Art Journal

These art journals are lovingly made using vintage hankies recently acquired from a friend as she sorts through the belongings of beloved family members. It is my honor to find a new purpose for these vintage treasures as they are a link to past memories and a slower, gentler time.

The journal:

• covers measure 10.5 x 5.5
• pages measure appx. 8.75 x 5
• 6 signatures with hand dyed spines
• over 175 pages total consisting of reclaimed newspaper, catalog sheets, and ads
• pages are "two" thick, rough with a crinkled texture (I wanted this journal to "FEEL" different and chunky) and are meant to be gessoed, painted, inked or stitched.
• some corners were left unadhered creating space for things to be tucked in and stitched or stapled.
• detailed stitching on front and back covers.
• flower is stitched to cover and vintage seam binding is stitched on as a wrap closure/wrapping
  about button or flower with silky leaves.
• two handstamped/ stitched tags.  " JOURNAL IT"

Beauty in every detail. ($25)

You can find the art journal in my Etsy store HERE.

old quilts new life: day planner

{  I   L O V E   M Y   N E W   P L A N N E R   C O V E R ...  }

and planning has never been so pretty.

... ALMOST AS MUCH AS I LOVE PLANNING !

Every year I look forward to the day when the upcoming new year's planner will be released on the store shelves. I love planning. I love lists, notes, and agendas. All sizes. All shapes. But the past few years I have noticed that I have been purchasing a planner that is smaller than years' past. I like the size that I can toss into my backpack or totebag or purse easily. I think it might be 8" x 5" or something close to that. Big enough I can SEE what I am writing in it but small enough it fits in my bag.

And you wanna know the best part? It is refillable - like these.

Every year I can just pop out the old one and place the new one in it's place.

N O  W   H O W   I S   T H A T   F O R   P L A N N I N G ?

old quilts new life: art journal cover love

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There is something about pretty. Something that makes you want to have more pretty. For as much as I used my art journal, I wanted to love it every time I picked it up - and not just the inside, but the outside as well. And so this ART JOURNAL COVER was born. I did not buy one thing for this project. I used bits and pieces of {pretty} from all around the studio...

...each castoff speaking to who I am. A piece of quilt, so worn and threadbare, and yet I do not have the heart to toss it away. Broken bits of favorite jewelry, beyond repair. Pieces of yarn, the reward after a long day in the dye kitchen. Scrapbook trinkets, plucked from a box marked  - Rummage Sale. Spools of thread, ready to unravel, little left to offer. Damaged silken petals, still beautiful in their color and sheen. Leather leftovers, stained and painted...

...and I love it.

I love each and every piece of "trash". Each morsel, another reminder of the things I use, the goods I surround myself with, create with - the things I love.

{  D O   Y O U   L O V E   I T   A S   W E L L ?  }

old quilts new life: quilt block notebook covers

I   L O V E   Q U I L T S     A N D     I   L O V E    N O T E B 0 0 K S ,   S O   T H E S E . . .

M A K E   M E   S M I L E !

* VINTAGE QUILT BLOCKS

* SILKY FLOWERS

*MINIATURE NOTEBOOKS

*VINTAGE SEAM BINDING

*REFILLABLE

T H I S   I S   D E F I N I T E L Y   T R U E   L O V E !

{available now in etsy shoppe & in this shoppe too}

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old quilts new life: travel size art journals

{L O V I N G  T H E S E  H A N D-D Y E D  S I G N A T U R E  S P I N E  C O V E R S}

...read more HERE. Coming Soon - NEW EXTRA CHUNKY TRAVEL ART JOURNALS, WITH OVER 380 PAGES for doodling, painting, sketching, collages and memorabilia...because 192 pages just wasn't enough!

tutorial: vintage look alike cakestand

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...so I made my own.  F O R  $ 2 ! I went to my local Dollar Store and picked

up a glass dinner plate for $1 and a glass candlestick for $1. I already had

some great adhesive in the drawer so in just 3 minutes I had my beautiful

         {  V I N T A G E     L O O K     A L I K E     C A K E S T A N D  }

Make your own Vintage Look Alike Cakestand HERE!

old quilts new life: shabby art journals

A match made in Heaven - vintage quilt fabric and vintage book paper. The make a sweet ART JOURNAL. Available now in my Etsy Shoppe