**Blog move**

When one door closes, another one opens...

Hello all!  The blog has moved.

You can now find me at www.sunrisefolk.blogspot.com .

The Indie Business class I recently finished has motivated me to get moving on starting my own business.  Originally I was going to go with the name Fellow Creatures.  When I did some digging, however, I found the name was already taken (by a very nice looking animal adoption agency!).  So, it was back to the drawing board.

It needed to be something that fit me and fit the feel of what my business will be.  My husband helped me go through the 20 little scraps of paper I had accumulated with ideas on them, and we came up with:

Sunrise Folk

I love it, and I hope you do too!  For the ease of keeping things "together", I switched the blog to the new name, opened an Etsy shop with the same name (items coming soon!) and have an e-mail at sunrisefolkcreations@gmail.com where I can also be reached.

The first steps have been taken and I can't wait to follow where this journey leads!  I hope you'll join me along the way.

Blessings

A paper tree for your Tuesday...

I love trees.

This is an album I spruced up awhile back.  

Not sure what it was originally supposed to house, 

but it has become the home of some very special little 'tid-bits'.

  

In downsizing/moving my craft stash to make room for the Little One on the way, I went through all my fabric.  I picked out the scraps (sometimes big) that had a special meaning/memory for me.  It seems like I've been hoarding some of these because I can't bear to let them go!

So, I decided to cut little swatches of them and store them in a memory book.  It's amazing to me that I can look at a scrap of polka dot material and remember exactly when and where I bought it, what I made with it and who I shared it with!

I have bits of my mom's old nightgowns that I used make doll blankets and some pieces I remember using with my Grandma to make dolls and embellish clothes for me.

Now, I feel liberated to use the rest of these fabrics for projects because I know I still have a piece of them safe with me.  Hopefully these fabric pieces will pass on all the love and care and years that are stored up in them.

Blessings to you!

Cloth Diaper Cake

My mom was here for a lovely visit and baby shower last weekend.  She had never been to a baby shower, but she put together all the games and did the decorations and it was a wonderful time!

One of her gifts to us was this diaper cake.  We're going to use cloth diapers, so she included a "layer" of those, as well as bright little towels, a cozy blanket, itty bitty spoons (for 'candles') and pinwheels!

How fun is that?!?!?

Thanks Mom!  We had a great visit!

It's a work in progress...

This blog, that is.

Thanks for your patience as I fiddle!

Indie Biz Notebook

The divider pages and notebook

Supplies and pocket (with name yet to be discovered!)

The notebook had some manufacturing text on it - the front bit was covered up with the title (Indie Biz) and the inside back cover now has this little reminder.  It may be the end of the class (sad day!), but it is just the beginning on this journey.

My mom is in town for a visit/baby shower.  We're off to finish getting ready!  I'll post some pictures (look forward to a super cute diaper cake!).

-Blessings!

Embroidery work 2

Wow, sorry it's been so long! I'm not sure where the time has gone...

Since the last post, I've started the Indie Biz 2.0 class with Leigh-Ann, Jill and Elsie. I am LOVING it, getting great info from it and it's making me think! I've set some goals for myself with this class, by the time I've 'graduated' I will:

Be blogging consistently

Have opened my own Etsy store

Be an bonafide Indie Business-lady!

I've been working on some new projects...to put in my Etsy store (!) when it opens...so more on those soon!!

Back to embroidery -

These are a few panels of a wall hanging I did for friends when their daughter was born. Her room has a Peter Rabbit theme!

The patterns for the embroidery came from coloring book pages I found on-line. There are so many great ones out there and coloring books are a great source for embroidery because they usually have such solid, clean lines that make them so easy to trace.

Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday!

Blessings -

Embroidery work 1

Sometimes pictures and/or ideas just come to me, and if I don't write them down, often times I'll lose them! This is one of those pictures.

Embroidery has been something I've really enjoyed, but just got back into recently. This is my first project with a mix of embroidery and fabric applique. This zippered, plain jane jacket is a staple of my wardrobe, but it needed some love, so I decided to put this picture on the back. I love how it turned out! I love when a project turns out just the way you pictured it.

Happy March - Blessings!

More plastic and glass...

I finally got a few pictures taken of some of the bottles I've painted.

Strawberry vines, New Orleans street tile letters and sheep jumping over the fence

Here is a plastic bag that I tried to paper piece like you would a quilt...

Unfortunately I don't know how to paper piece a quilt, so I just made it up as I went and it shows. It was a learning experience and the bag is actually really good to take to the beach! It's all plastic on the outside and lined with some fabric I had left over from another project.

The iron was put to good use this weekend and the sewing machine got pulled out after a long rest. It's amazing what just a little break from something will do in terms of increased productivity when you come back to it! A nice little stack of projects were completed Sunday night.

Completing projects has not always been a strength of mine. But no more! I finish things and it feels wonderful!

More on those "finished things" soon...

Until then, Blessings!

Functional Recycled Art

Good morning!

As I mentioned earlier, reusing ordinary/cast off items to make something beautiful and functional is what I really enjoy. Here are some projects i've dabbled in.

Aside from fusing plastic, I've done some painting on glass bottles (that would have gone into the recycling bin), made books using recycled paper and cereal/tea/hot cocoa/etc. boxes, and skirts from pillowcases.

This is a peek at a jar I painted as a container for tea bags for my mom. I believe it was a pickle jar in its previous life!

This was a banner made for a friend using printer paper that was in the recycle pile. I left the printed side facing out for an extra touch (the text had a 'special' meaning to the banner recipient!).

More pictures coming soon. Writing about it has me inspired to work on some new projects!

Blessings!

Fusing Plastic

The next few posts will be projects that were done within the last year or so.

For some time, I worked with fusing plastic bags (ones from the grocery store). The recycling/reusing and making something so bad for the environment into something useful and beautiful really appealed to me. Unfortunately, the fumes heated plastic put off, were not as enjoyable.

This was one of the first bags. It's a little clutch with ruffles along the edge and some embroidered embellishments.

More recycled art soon...

Until then, happy Saturday and Blessings!

Hello there!

I've just started blogging, and I hope for this to be a place to record crafting goodness and to meet some other crafty folks!

Some recent goings on...

These are some table decorations I made for a friends baby shower. The theme was bumble bees!

The other decorations included tissue paper balls for the windows and paper cut to make clouds and giant bumble bees for the walls. The tables had simple yellow and blue dots (the centers cut from paper plates).

I had such a fun time putting it all together! Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to do some more decorating in the future.

Blessings!