Never too old Marthe Armitage is 84 years of age. She designs custom wallpapers and draws them herself. This in itself is unusual, as often the patterns on wallpaper are taken from old documents, but in her case she didn’t even start her work with papers until her mid 70’s. What kind of craziness is […]
A fabric postcard for a teacher
An end of year thank you note When Doris’s son was young he drew a picture for his teacher as an end of year thank you note. Doris, being the creative, talented quilter that she is, was inspired. What resulted was an annual tradition of taking a drawing by her son and turning it into […]
A package that chirps
What’s in the box? It’s funny, the circumstances I find myself in. Take for instance this week. I was at my church at a planning meeting for an upcoming funky, cool summer camp, when doesn’t this lovely woman, Patricia, pop her head in the room with something to show us. Mail order chicks! Look at them! […]
Paper Wedding – Part I – Calligraphy
Tis the season. Wedding that is. Today is the first installment in a series here on the blog on ‘Paper Weddings.’ And to celebrate in high style we are doing a give away. I say ‘we’ because Jenny Muffler from Just Write Studios is teaming up with me to give away something she will craft […]