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Shoreline, CT, United States
I would love for you to join me (a retired senior)in my zany crafting adventures with quilting (waaaaay too much fabric); scrapbooking (will I ever catch up?); redwork; counted cross stitch; crossword puzzles; reading; and cooking.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

NEW GLUE BOOK FUN

"EN MASSE" :

Dictionary Definition for En Masse....
"Adv: In one group or body; all together"

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Above is my Title Page on the right and
some of my categories on the left.
[Thanks Shannon Green (YT-er)
for these suggestions....]
💋
Here is the first double spread
all squares and rectangles:
"ROSES"
and
the 2nd :
↧↧↧↧
"FACES"
Using squares and rectangles once again.

Followed by
a double spread in progress
↓↓↓
"Fashion"

You can see from the Fashion pix that 
I have cut out each single "fashionista" or
group and fit them
together puzzle-like to cover
all the cream colored background..

These are more difficult as I have "fussy cut"
a lot of the girls--so fitting them together
is a bit challenging.

Working on these pages reminds me of 
this Yo-Yo fabric Coverlet--
Which I would dearly love to make
for a Summer bed spread...
AND

my Ojos works:

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I am so enjoying working in these
glue books, searching for images
and fussy cutting...
It is really very  relaxing
 with my
Pandora radio on in the
background shuffling a 
variety of musical styles...

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I am working out of a lot of back issues
of mags that I have been 
hoarding 
over the years and
not really knowing 
W H Y ???

[answer to Tom's question:
"Why do you need all these
old magazines?"]
HAHAHAHAHA
It is great to be using them up👌💋😊
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I hope you are enjoying this Saturday...
It is raining pretty hard here with
lowering grayed clouds...
but it is
"sunny" in my craft space;)))

Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse
(humming-along-while-cutting-&-pasting-euse)











 

Saturday, March 18, 2023

LAYERED UP

 
I was finally able to layer up
my "Orange You Glad"
 Table runner ;)))

It measures 20" x 48"--
so it will be perfect 
for my dining table.

I cannot believe how tired
 I got just from getting 
this done!! 👾
But it is all ready for
leisurely pin basting now...
Hurrah...✌👀👍💛💚

Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse
[still-fighting-covid-symptoms-euse!]

Saturday, March 11, 2023

PAPER PLAY PROJECT

 
I pulled out my old rolodex
a week ago and have been
working on teaching myself
how to
collage on these cards--
I also took out all my old stamps and
inking pads for this project...

I am using the Alpha cards as prompts;
the first three for "A" are:
Artichoke, Apple and Architecture
and
here are the reverse sides using the 
same prompts:
I am really having fun using up bits and bobs
of papers leftover from my long ago 
scrapbooking days...

Here is the letter "B"
Boat, Butterfly and Book
and the reverse
I am collaging both sides as the cards hang both ways
on the rolodex...
What a fun project...
A little change ....

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For those of you who have been 
asking and wishing me well--
I am beginning to feel better...
I still have symptoms and
that horrid "brain fog",
but on the whole, 
I think I am coming out of it..
Fevers are fewer and farther between...
Phew this has been a real drag!!

Hugs, Julierose
La Blageuse
(cutting-and-gluing-euse)










Sunday, March 5, 2023

REVISITING "ORANGE YOU GLAD", et al

 
I finally got to sew my
"Orange You Glad" Ojos
blocks together, doing
just a couple when I
felt okay--or as ok
as these lingering 
remnants of
Covid allowed!!

It will be a long  
runner for my dining table..
I will be hand quilting it
 as I love how my
smaller Ojos came out--
all crinkley!! 👌😄😄

Here are the
final scraps from these projects...
↧↧↧↧
This table was piled high when I
began...so I am making Chinese coin
strips with the rest...you can see my
progress with these
on the right of the above photo...
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Here is the Composition Color Glue Book project
I have been working at
off and on...cutting and gluing
is a very easy and relaxing
project even when you are not
feeling that great:)))
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[Sorry for the magazine's images glare]
and
Here are two of the Orange background pages...
I love searching for images in each color
and fitting them together on the page.

I will be adding "fussy-cut" images over
these...still in the page's colorway.
[Eg: see the fussy cut oranges on
the top right above] 
This is such fun;)))

There are four pages for each color of the spectrum
along with black and white and white on white...
the only backgrounds I have yet to 
finish up are
the red ones--I haven't found 
many red pages in my old
stack of magazines...

Orange seems to be the theme 
of my projects lately.
😁😅😇
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For those of you who've wished 
me well during this Covid
bout--thank you so much--
I hope to continue to get better.
It is an on-and-off thing from day to day.
Still resting and napping a whole lot.
Please stay safe and wear your masks...
😷😷😷

Hugs, Julierose,
La Blageuse
(continuing-to recover-euse)



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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

MARCH AND STILL MIA

 

Both Tom and I tested still
covid positive this morning.
This is just lingering on and on...

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I have just sewed a very little bit
with some Ojos leftovers into
two coin strips...but
I am really too tired to do much.
My sewing mojo is on vacation
for a while...
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I am able to do a few more household 
chores (oh joy!!) than before;
this Friday it will have been 
3 weeks...

Hoping that we will return to normalcy
very soon...

Hugs from afar, 
Julierose,
La Blageuse
(mostly-napping-euse)