I hope you’re enjoying Far Far Away week as much as I am. Today I’m going to show you how to make vinyl wall decals from your favorite fabric. If you’re like me, when you spend $18/yard on expensive Japanese fabric you love, you want to make it stretch, use up every last inch. Well […] Read more…
Welcome to Far, Far Away Week! – a week devoted to projects inspired by Heather Ross‘ beautiful Far, Far Away fabrics. Here’s the first project – a mural for your wall! I chose to paint the owl and the pussycat in their cute little row boat under the moon. The original fabric looks like this, […] Read more…
I recently got a serger. (Yay!) A Brother 1034D to be exact. I’ve never had a serger and never before used one. Needless to say, I was a little nervous (but obviously, very excited) to use one. It sat in the box for about a week while I read the manual over and over again. […] Read more…
I loved this picture when I first saw it. It’s of my husband, his brothers and their father when he was younger. I wanted to do something special with it. I used gel medium and affixed the image to it (see how to do it here). After removing the paper, I sanded it to age […] Read more…
So here’s a little something I’ve been working on for quite a while. I had this beautiful photo of my kids at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts sitting on a bench admiring some paintings. I took the photo and transferred the image to a canvas using gel medium (see this great tutorial, for instructions on […] Read more…
