I added 3 more circles to the right side of the T-shirt to cover the hole that I had made. It is possible that the t-shirt fabric is just not strong enough when the stabilizer is removed. We will just have to see. Normally if I had done an a-symmetric piece the detail on the bottom would be on the opposite side - but since this was a fix it situation Needs Must!
I am quite happy and will wear it at least once before it goes into the wash and then we will see what happens. Hope for success.
I bought this top at Anthropologie Yesterday. It is so pretty and purple and hey it wouldn't be that hard to make.....
I stopped at Old Navy on the way home and picked up a blue T-shirt ($12.50), I cut out various sizes of blue circles and appliqued them onto the neckline and side and cut away the excess t-shirt.
Detail of the neckline.
Detail of the bottom.
I received a lovely award from my new friend Floss over at Troc, Broc and Recup' . I am honestly thrilled that she decided to give me an award. It is nice and gives me a little glowing feeling!
This is a little Doodle I did last night while watching the T.V. I think it has potential to be something else. it reminds me of a tattoo sleeve. I think I may do some embroidery from it. Or I may just let it be what it is. There is something really nice about drawing with a brand new Sharpie. For some really creative Sharpie use check this out.
This is just a fantastic photo. The feathers are so luminescent.
Ruth St. Denis in The Peacock at the first Denishawn School 1915, originally uploaded by pufferfish_76.
Ruth St. Denis was one of the pioneers of American modern dance. I love the juxtaposition of her body form (including the train) and the real peacock.
This is a close up of a cardigan that my in-laws bought me for Christmas before I was their daughter in law - all the information that they knew about me was that I liked stripes. They did a good job and this is much worn and loved.
A Paperchase bookmark.
My Set of mixing bowls, a great housewarming gift from my good friend Jess.
The sky is grey after yesterday's bright blue one and the light isn't great for the photographs but Purple is really one of my favourite colours. Here are two large Purple hair clips on my mini dress form.
This is a detail from a kimono quilt that my Mum (Felicity Aston) made for me. Actually she made one for my Brother and his wife for their wedding because they worked and met in Japan. I loved that quilt so much that my mum made one just for me. I am so lucky!
A photo album and note card set from Paperchase
My 18th Birthday present (wow that was a long time ago) from my Mum and Dad it is a beautiful piece of kinetic jewelry from Alan Ardiff. I still love his work and hope to own more pieces one day. While taking this photo I realised my jewelry needs a really good clean.
A shameless bit of self promotion - why not. A lilac flower from a clutch made by me. You can check it out at AshleyAmandaDesigns.Etsy.com or just click on the picture at the top right of this blog!
It is suddenly warming up here in Michigan and here is a beautiful Blue sky!
My Blue Salt and Pepper Mice that sit in my kitchen
A selection of Blue Air Mail stickers that line the spine of my address book.
I am very fortunate to know some very artistic people, this dish was made for my wedding present by Peter Meanley an extremely talented Potter and a close friend of my family. He works predominantly with Salt glaze and is currently producing a range of pieces inspired by Toby Jugs. He has modeled the characters for these Jugs on himself and my Dad. I saw some of the bisque when I was home at Christmas and can't wait to see the finished pieces. He had an exhibition a year ago in the Ulster Folk and transport Museum.
My Green cleaner
My Green cup of Tea and a tin of mint Green Tea (which is not actually the tea in my cup) in front of my Green Kitchen aid mixer.
Detail of a nice Green bag from Whole Foods.
My Experiments with copper and verdigris. I haven't quite worked out what it is going to be yet but I like it! Detail below.
A little selection of Yellow from my work table.
Orange is not my favourite colour. The only room we painted when we moved in to our house was our living room and thats because it was Orange and I couldn't live with it. I don't even have an orange fabric bin. I have to admit it does look nice with Blue though (complementry colour and all). I thought Orange photographs would be hard but as it happens I do have some stuff.
I have a beautiful african wall hanging that my friends from Kenya gave us as a wedding gift. My wall needed a little something more to add to it. This is a basket that I bought at a discount store here. It hangs with its friends up on my wall beside the wall hanging. I have a notion to collect more in different sizes and keep adding to them.
This is from my Gap T-shirt made in South Africa for Project Red (label below) this t-shirt makes me feel good! I also bought one that says Bo(RED) which doesn't really have the same uplifting sentiment. Happily I wear this one a lot more, and since this blog is really supposed to inspire me I think it is a much more appropriate. You can buy lots of RED products over at http://www.joinred.com
This is my Big Red Stripey Linen Log Cabin Quilt. When we moved into our house the Master Bedroom was painted Dark Red. We didn't really want to spend a lot of time painting so we just moved ourselves in. Of course nothing we owned went with a dark Red Bedroom. I decided to make a log Cabin Quilt for Our Bed. It is my first usable Quilt and I of course decided to make it a King size (we only have a Queen) in case we upgrade any time. This took me months to make. The fabric graduates from Deep Reds and Purples on the Bottom Right side to Creams and pinks on the Top Left. I probably used around 20 fabrics all stripey linen, and then bleached and dyed to get my colour range. I couldn't say exactly how many different colours came out of it. I have better pictures somewhere but I can't seem to find them on my computer.
Finally this is my Anthropologie jumper (sweater) that I am wearing today in honour of Red Monday. I love clothes from Anthropologie but why do they have to cost so much? It really is the most interesting clothing store here in the U.S.A. Back in Ireland I am love Monsoon and Peruna, but in general the clothes are a little more interesting in the U.K.
This picture seemed very appropriate for the Rainbow theme of the day. It is a lino print that my dad, Terry Aston hand painted for me last year. It is hanging in my kitchen and giving me a cheerful view through this long cold Michigan winter.
This is my somewhat untidy fabric stash system. Some bins are definitely more full than others that Blue one is overflowing. I should really go through and fold the fabric neatly.
Beads, Beads, Beads - this is just one of my many bead storage areas and it is rainbow so there you go.
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