Monday, December 21, 2009

Happy Holidays and a Bit of Bah Humbug!



This is a fabric card I made for a Christmas Card Swap in one of the Yahoo Groups I belong to. The recipient featured it on the Group home page.

It is old upholstry fabric, ribbon, custom dyed felt and the bells are on a canvas transfer with some minibells attached as an adornment.

I've waited for my swap card to come, but I've come to the conclusion that the person who drew my name didn't bother to send one. This is not the first time this has happened with this group, so I probably won't be joining any more trades there. First time, shame on me, second time shame on you! If I went for a third time, then I'd consider myself a fool!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Dada Doings


While Goodwill shopping, I saw a few wine bottle openers in a basket of cutlery and noticed they looked like figures with outstretched arms, so I thought I could make some Dadas with them. Here a two of them, not quite finished, but you get the idea. The one above has a brass butterfly attached as wings. The base is a strange wood and tin thing--I cut it in two and used the second piece as the base for the second dada. Everytime I'm out at Goodwill, I look for similar openers. They come in various shapes and sizes, and seem to be made for dada making!



I really got into making Dadas after reading the book by Opie and Linda O'Brien, "Who's Your Dada: Redefining the Doll through Mixed Media". These bottle opener dadas were so much fun to make that I decided to take a weeklong workshop next year in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.